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| The illusion of welfare 'regimes' | | Author(s) | Gregory J Kasza |
| Journal title | Journal of Social Policy, vol 31, no 2, April 2002 |
| Pages | pp 271-288 |
| Keywords | Social welfare ; Social policy. |
| Annotation | The concept of welfare regimes has become a centrepiece of comparative welfare research. Most criticism of the concept thus far has focused on whether this or that country fits a particular regime type or deserves its own regime category. This article offers a more radical critique of this concept. It argues that most countries practice a disjointed set of welfare policies due to the following typical features of welfare policymaking: the cumulative nature of welfare policies; the diverse histories of policies in different welfare fields; the involvement of different sets of policy factors; variations in the policymaking process; and the influence of foreign models. It concludes that few national welfare systems are likely to exhibit the internal consistency necessary to validate the regime concept, and that policy-specific comparisons may be a more promising avenue for comparative research. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020520202 A |
| Classmark | TY: TM2 |
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