Funding social protection: Mapping and explaining welfare state financing in a global perspective
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Funding social protection : Mapping and explaining welfare state financing in a global perspective. / Schmitt, Carina; Lierse, Hanna; Obinger, Herbert.
In: Global Social Policy, Vol. 20, No. 2, 01.08.2020, p. 143-164.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Funding social protection
T2 - Mapping and explaining welfare state financing in a global perspective
AU - Schmitt, Carina
AU - Lierse, Hanna
AU - Obinger, Herbert
PY - 2020/8/1
Y1 - 2020/8/1
N2 - In this article, we analyze the political sources of cross-national differences in financing social protection around the world. The type of funding is not simply a technical detail but provides insights into the kinds of social contracts that underpin national social protection systems, reflecting different redistributive ambitions, conceptions of solidarity, and legitimacy among societies. Based on International Labour Organization (ILO) data, we explore to what extent past and contemporary political factors such as colonial and communist legacies as well as regime differences and war experiences account for cross-national differences in funding social protection across the globe. Our empirical evidence suggests that historically rooted political differences explain large parts of today’s highly divergent patterns in social security funding systems.
AB - In this article, we analyze the political sources of cross-national differences in financing social protection around the world. The type of funding is not simply a technical detail but provides insights into the kinds of social contracts that underpin national social protection systems, reflecting different redistributive ambitions, conceptions of solidarity, and legitimacy among societies. Based on International Labour Organization (ILO) data, we explore to what extent past and contemporary political factors such as colonial and communist legacies as well as regime differences and war experiences account for cross-national differences in funding social protection across the globe. Our empirical evidence suggests that historically rooted political differences explain large parts of today’s highly divergent patterns in social security funding systems.
KW - Colonialism
KW - global perspective
KW - political regimes
KW - social protection
KW - welfare state financing
KW - Sustainability sciences, Management & Economics
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85081635214&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1468018120906671
DO - 10.1177/1468018120906671
M3 - Journal articles
AN - SCOPUS:85081635214
VL - 20
SP - 143
EP - 164
JO - Global Social Policy
JF - Global Social Policy
SN - 1468-0181
IS - 2
ER -