Although new and strengthened regional institutions have emerged in most regions of the global economy, institutional variation has persisted. The key dimensions of institutional variation considered here are decision rules; commitment devices, such as legalization and enfranchisement; and...

The aim of this article is to articulate the concepts of familialism and defamilialization as well as their indicators to assess whether and how welfare states, or regimes, differ not only in the degree to which they are defamilialized but also in the specific familialism form. In other words,...