Life Cycle Risks and the Politics of the Welfare State
Published on 20. September 2019
143 pages
978-87-7184-999-8 (ISBN)
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Life Cycle Risks and the Politics of the Welfare State presents the dual risk model of the welfare state. Previous research in the field has predominantly studied the role of modernization and the associated labor market risks; this book gives equal weight to a different class of social risks, namely those related to the life cycle. Labor market and life cycle risks each have profound, but distinct consequences for the political process of the welfare state, including public opinion formation, party competition, and public policy-making. The dual risk model helps us to understand why some social programs are prioritized over others in terms of political attention and public spending - and how this prioritization leads to mounting economic inequalities in modern-day societies.
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Carsten Jensen
Life Cycle Risks and the Politics of the Welfare State
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09/2019
Aarhus University Press
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Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Colophon
- Contents
- Foreword
- Chapter 1
- Modernization, human biology, and a tale of two domains
- Chapter 2
- The labor market bias of the welfare state literature
- Modernization and the origins of thewelfare state literature
- Power resources and political conflict
- Business interests and corporatist bargains
- The rise of the post-industrial economy
- The sources of citizens' preferences
- Institutions
- Conclusion
- Chapter 3
- The psychology of social risks
- Two types of risks
- Ideas and intuitions: The basic distinction
- Ideas and intuitions about life cycle and labor market risks
- Conclusion
- Chapter 4
- The politics of the welfare state revisited
- Stage no. 1: Public preferences
- Stage no. 2: Party competition
- Stage no. 3: Public policy-making
- Conclusion
- Chapter 5
- Inequality and the bifurcation of the welfare state
- References
