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The Kufuor (New Patriotic Party) administration of 2000-2008 implemented substantial reforms of the contributory social insurance system (including the introduction of a national health insurance scheme and a new 'three tier' pensions system), and introduced a range of social assistance schemes...
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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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This paper evaluates the linkage between social security strategies and redistributive effects in EU social transfer systems. It is argued that the various European systems produce different patterns of redistribution that may be explained by the adoption of different mixes of social security...
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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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There are basically three stories about the globalisation-welfare state nexus. The first story argues that globalisation is the cause of the chronic crisis of the welfare state. As national economies open to the international market, governments are forced to adapt to the imperatives of global...
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