Reform Perspectives On Welfare State Models In Global Capitalism

In the tradition of Esping-Andersen a number of welfare state models have been characterized. In this paper, the authors analyze the economic and social performance of these different welfare regimes on an encompassing empirical basis both in the long run and with respect to their adaptability to the challenges of the last decades. While the differences with regard to growth dynamics had been very small in decades after the war (1960-1990), growth rates as well as the employment and social policy records have diverged in the past 15 years.