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• March 22, 2019

Creator

• Huo, Jingjing
  • Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Political Science

Abstract

• The dissertation examines the welfare state and labour market reforms under social democratic governments in nine OECD countries across three main types of welfare state regimes after the Golden Age. Using a "most-different-cases" comparative research design, the dissertation makes four main contributions to the literature. First, it proposes a theoretical framework for social democratic welfare reforms. As an "activation" based approach to social justice, the core third way strategies are focused on the expansion of active labour market measures. Secondly, the dissertation contests the "new politics of the welfare state" thesis that path dependency diminishes partisan effects on welfare reforms after the Golden Age. Thirdly, the dissertation argues that focusing solely on the welfare state proper, and social expenditure in particular, is inappropriate for welfare reform studies. Lastly, with regard to theories of institutional evolution, the dissertation highlights the importance of institutional innovation based on political contestation, as opposed to institutional reproduction based on path dependency.

Date of publication

• May 2006

DOI

• https://doi.org/10.17615/ygwq-9z20

Resource type

• Dissertation

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Advisor

• Stephens, John

Degree granting institution

• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Language

• English

Access

• Open access

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