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Social Democracy and Welfare Capitalism: A Century of Income Security Politics
What has brought about the widespread public provision of welfare and income security within free-market liberalism? Some social scientists have regarded welfare as a preindustrial atavism; others, as a functional requirement of industrial society. Most recently, scholars have stressed the reformist actions of center-left parties during the decades following World War II, the workings of "new" post-industrial politics lately, and a multifaceted role of politics and state institutions overall. Alexander Hicks thoroughly revises these views, stressing the enduring significance of class organizations, however politically embedded, from the era of Bismark until the present.
Social Democracy and Welfare Capitalism describes and explains income security programs in affluent and democratic capitalist nations, from the proto-democratic innovators of the 1880s to the globally buffeted democracies of the 1990s. Hicks's account stresses the reformist role of employee political and economic organization and derivative institutions, in particular, social democratic parties, labor unions, and neo-corporatist arrangements. These forces, arrayed as the elements of a transnational and century-long social democratic movement, give direction and continuity to the emergence, development, and contestation of income security policies.
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Social Democracy and Welfare Capitalism: A Century of Income Security Politics
What has brought about the widespread public provision of welfare and income security within free-market liberalism? Some social scientists have regarded welfare as a preindustrial atavism; others, as a functional requirement of industrial society. Most recently, scholars have stressed the reformist actions of center-left parties during the decades following World War II, the workings of "new" post-industrial politics lately, and a multifaceted role of politics and state institutions overall. Alexander Hicks thoroughly revises these views, stressing the enduring significance of class organizations, however politically embedded, from the era of Bismark until the present.
Social Democracy and Welfare Capitalism describes and explains income security programs in affluent and democratic capitalist nations, from the proto-democratic innovators of the 1880s to the globally buffeted democracies of the 1990s. Hicks's account stresses the reformist role of employee political and economic organization and derivative institutions, in particular, social democratic parties, labor unions, and neo-corporatist arrangements. These forces, arrayed as the elements of a transnational and century-long social democratic movement, give direction and continuity to the emergence, development, and contestation of income security policies.
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Social Democracy and Welfare Capitalism: A Century of Income Security Politics
What has brought about the widespread public provision of welfare and income security within free-market liberalism? Some social scientists have regarded welfare as a preindustrial atavism; others, as a functional requirement of industrial society. Most recently, scholars have stressed the reformist actions of center-left parties during the decades following World War II, the workings of "new" post-industrial politics lately, and a multifaceted role of politics and state institutions overall. Alexander Hicks thoroughly revises these views, stressing the enduring significance of class organizations, however politically embedded, from the era of Bismark until the present.
Social Democracy and Welfare Capitalism describes and explains income security programs in affluent and democratic capitalist nations, from the proto-democratic innovators of the 1880s to the globally buffeted democracies of the 1990s. Hicks's account stresses the reformist role of employee political and economic organization and derivative institutions, in particular, social democratic parties, labor unions, and neo-corporatist arrangements. These forces, arrayed as the elements of a transnational and century-long social democratic movement, give direction and continuity to the emergence, development, and contestation of income security policies.
Alexander Hicks is Professor of Sociology and Political Science at Emory University. He is coeditor of The Comparative Political Economy of the Welfare State: New Methodologies and Approaches.
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Gosta Esping-Andersen
Alexander Hicks, a leading figure in contemporary welfare state research, has with this book provided a new benchmark for comparative political economy. Social Democracy and Welfare Capitalism is a tour de force of political history and state-of-the-art quantitative comparison. The result is a truly masterful demonstration of why, how, and how much political mobilization matters in shaping egalitarian outcomes in the rich democracies. This is one of those books that sets the standards of exemplary analysis for years to come. It is bound to become must reading for all aspiring—and seasoned—comparativists.
Colin Crouch
Alexander Hicks has here provided the most comprehensive analysis yet available on the links among political regimes, industrial relations systems, welfare state forms, and social policy outcomes. Social Democracy and Welfare Capitalism is a landmark in comparative policy analysis.
Michael Mann
Grounded solidly on a data-set of income security programs in the OECD countries, Alexander Hicks's book is a rigorous and authoritative account of the rise and retrenchment of the various forms of the modern welfare state through the 20th century. The book is essential reading for all those interested in the past or future of welfare states.
Geoffrey Garrett
Social Democracy and Welfare Capitalism offers a wonderful analytic history of income transfer programs throughout the 20th century. Alexander Hicks's central thesis about the importance of working class politics to the evolution of the welfare state is subtly argued and comprehensively tested. I cannot think of a better treatment of the subject.
