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What Do Parties Want? An Analysis of Programmatic Social Policy Aims in Austria, Germany, and the Netherlands

van Dyk, Silke; Seeleib-Kaiser, Martin; Roggenkamp, Martin - 2005

Comparative welfare state research has argued for some time that it makes a difference in regards to the specific welfare state design whether Social Democrats or Christian Democrats are in government. The theory is based on the fact that historically the social policy aims of Social Democrats...

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Die ökonomische Bedrohung politischer Selbstbestimmung: zum Verhältnis von Demokratie und Wohlfahrtsstaat

Nonhoff, Martin - 2007

man zunächst insofern sprechen, als Sozialpolitik sich in wenigstens zwei Dimensionen immer stärker dem Imperativ des … Ökonomischen unterwirft und sich immer weniger als Sozialpolitik begreift: Erstens sind die Organisationsformen von Sozialpolitik … schließlich auch sprechen, wenn es der Sozialpolitik nicht gelingt, Mindestforderungen der Gerechtigkeit - ohne deren Erfüllung …

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Die Sozialpolitik der Großen Koalition in Bremen

Knigge, Arnold - 2007

In den Jahren der Großen Koalition spielte sich die Bremer Sozialpolitik unter schwierigen Rahmenbedingungen ab. Bremen … Konsolidierung der Haushalte bis Ende 2004 verpflichtet. Die Sozialpolitik leistete erhebliche finanzielle Beiträge zur Sanierung des … Schwerpunkte der Sozialpolitik in diesen Jahren neu bestimmt wurden. …

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Government benefits, inequality, and employment

Kenworthy, Lane - 2008

Redistribution is one of the principal mechanisms through which countries secure low income inequality. Maintaining moderately high wage levels at the low end of the distribution may be increasingly difficult and perhaps even counterproductive from an egalitarian perspective. If so,...

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The capacity of social policies to combat poverty among new social risk groups

Rovny, Allison - 2014

This paper considers groups who are most likely to be vulnerable to new social risks and tests the effects of social policies on their poverty levels. Specifically, the paper conducts multi-level regression analyses across 18 OECD countries near the year 2004, analyzing the effects of social...

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The politics of poverty: Left political institutions, the welfare state and poverty

Brady, David - 2003

This study investigates the impact of Left political institutions on a nation's amount of poverty. Specifically, the analysis tests three possible causal relationships: whether Left political institutions affect poverty separately from the welfare state, channeled through the welfare state, or...

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The prevalence of welfare state policies and gender socioeconomic inequality: A comparative analysis

Mandel, Hadas; Semyonov, Moshe - 2003

The present study examines the hypotheses that progressive welfare-state policies are likely to increase women's labor force participation, but at the same time to increase both occupational segregation and earning gaps between economically active men and women. Using data from 20 industrialized...

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Social policy strategies to combat income poverty of children and families in Europe

Cantillon, Bea; Van den Bosch, Karel - 2002

In the EU there is growing concern about poverty among children, and among families with children. In most OECD countries, income poverty among children now exceeds that among the elderly, who traditionally were the demographic group most at risk of poverty (Jäntti and Danziger, 2000). However,...

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Social assistance and minimum income protection in the EU: Vulnerability, adequacy, and convergence

Nelson, Kenneth - 2009

In this paper social assistance developments are analyzed in a large number of EU member states, including European transition countries and the new democracies of southern Europe. The empirical analysis is based on the unique and recently established SaMip Dataset, which provides social...

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The implications of cross-national policies for the relative incomes of families with children by family structure and parental education

Moller, Stephanie; Misra, Joya; Wemlinger, Elizabeth; … - 2013

Focusing on an array of European and North American welfare states between 1985 and 2005, we consider how welfare state policies are related to households' relative incomes, taking into account cross-national and temporal differences in income distributions. At the same time, we consider how two...

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