The causes of welfare state expansion in democratic <scp>middle‐income</scp> countries: A literature review

Dorlach, Tim

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“…The political approach stresses that ‘democratic deepening, that is, increasing political freedom levels after a successful democratic transition, further drives the expansion of social programmes’ (Dorlach, 2020: p. 6). Two logical explanations to support this statement could depart from two points of view, that is, the partisan ideology thesis and democratisation thesis.…”

Section: The Causes Of Social Policy Expansion In East Asian Welfare Regimesmentioning

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The complementary roles between clientelism and familism in social policy development

Yuda

2021

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What drives social policy development? Most of the literature addressing this issue focuses on the economic crisis and the increase in left power as its causation. On the basis of the Indonesian case, this paper engages in a debate about the clouts of clientelism and familial ethics in shaping social policy path development. This article claims that the quick replacement of productivist welfare regimes with the more inclusive system after Asian Financial Crisis is motivated by increased elites' interest in repositioning their clientelistic network within a public institution. This is occurring while familial precepts are being used as effective moral politics in encouraging kinship networks to internalize social risks during the regime replacement process. Overall, the case of Indonesia reflects the common characteristic of welfare regimes development in East Asian countries where efforts to modernize social policy are conditioned under a situation where democracy is not well‐established and the post‐modern family structure has not fully matured either. Consequently, the development of social policy to a large extent is still confined within a huge clientelistic influence and implemented under the familial ideology. This situation has ultimately retarded welfare state development.

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Section: The Causes Of Social Policy Expansion In East Asian Welfare Regimesmentioning

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The complementary roles between clientelism and familism in social policy development

Yuda

2021

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“…Gerovės valstybėmis vadinamos šalys, kurios užtikrina ekonominį ir socialinį saugumą savo piliečiams (Öktem, 2020). Praktiniame politikos formavimo diskurse gerovės valstybės esminiu rodikliu yra valstybės išlaidos socialinės apsaugos sričiai (Dorlach, 2020). Öktem (2020) siūlo gerovės valstybėmis laikyti šalis, kurios socialinei politikai skiria daugiau nei pusę savo BVP.…”

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“…Moksliniame diskurse gerovės valstybės terminu irgi apibūdinamos šalys, kurios skiria didelę dalį nacionalinių pajamų socialinės politikos įgyvendinimui (Dorlach, 2020). Tokių tarpe paminėtinos Švedija, Vokietija, Olandija ir kt.…”

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“…Nagrinėjant, kokius modelius renkasi pasaulio šalys ir kokį efektą jų pasirinkimai turi, galima pastebėti, kad kai kurios valstybės renkasi unikalų kelią, vedantį link universalizmo, pvz., plėtoti socialinės tarpusavio pagalbos mechanizmus, o ne socialinio draudimo sistemą (Dorlach, 2020). Anot Rogers (2021), tyrusio gerovės valstybės galimybes Pietų Amerikos šalyse, pastangos gerinti pažeidžiamų visuomenės grupių gyvenimo sąlygas yra politinis pasirinkimas.…”

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Availability of social services for families with disabled children in the context of the welfare state

Raišienė

Gardziulevičienė²

2021

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The phenomenon of the welfare state is characterized by complexity of indicators. To determine in which areas the country is closer to the welfare state, various areas of social policy are analysed. In this article, we set out to investigate one of them, i.e., the accessibility of social services for children with disabilities. The European Union ensures the basic preconditions for the well-being of children with disabilities and emphasizes the compatibility of health, social and educational services (European Commission, 2021). In addition, Member States are free to introduce specific measures for social inclusion (COM, 2021). The well-being of children with disabilities is inseparable from that of adults, usually the family in which the children live. Depending on the child’s disability, the family has to devote time to the child’s special needs, so opportunities to function in society, such as working and earning an income, become dependent on the social assistance received for the disabled child. Research shows that participation in labour market processes reduces the social exclusion of families with children with disabilities and improves quality of life indicators in general (Stefanidis & Strogilos 2020). However, analysis of good practice is more common, while information about the lack of services that parents face difficulties remains overboard. Thus, our research contributes to a better understanding of how families raising children with disabilities use state-provided social services and what solutions and measures are needed to improve the quality of life of children with disabilities and their relatives. The practical implications of our article are revealed through the possibility of more confidently shaping the decisions and measures of the welfare state.The article presents results of a survey of 68 families with disabled children. Our research was conducted in Druskininkai municipality which has typical infrastructure of social services for the disabled and their families in Lithuania.Our study has shown that social services in Lithuania poorly meet needs of families with disabled children. Though social inclusion is one of the most important features of the welfare state, the provision of social services to disabled and their families goes beyond the concept in Druskininkai municipality at least. Families have little information about social guarantees and support provided by the state and municipality. The families are limited to services reported by health care and education institutions. Moreover, the most significant problem hindering social integration of disabled and their families is a small portion of disabled children using services of day care centre. As a result, children suffer at risk of social exclusion while disabled children’s parents lack of opportunities to fully participate in the labour market.Based on the results of the study we state that increasing the availability of social services that meet the needs of families with disabled children is a necessary social policy solution, without which the development of a welfare state in Lithuania is hardly possible.

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“…To date, studies have examined different policy sectors and instruments, such as the spread of conditional cash transfers and social assistance transfers in non‐OECD countries (Barrientos, 2013; Leisering, 2019; Morais de Sá e Silva, 2017), labor and education/vocational training systems (Schneider, 2013), pensions (Brooks, 2005; Hujo, 2014), public health (Wong, 2004), or "social policy by other means" (Seelkopf & Starke, 2019). Such studies have frequently focused on specific regions in the Global South (for Regional Issues of this journal on social policy in Asia and Latin America, see Mok, Kühner, & Yeates, 2017; Arza & Greve, 2018; for a recent review, see Dorlach, 2020).…”

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Causal mechanisms in the analysis of transnational social policy dynamics: Evidence from the global south

Kuhlmann

Brink

2021

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The aim of this Regional Issue is to generate new findings on social policy dynamics in the Global South and on the transnational factors that shape them. It suggests that the concept of causal mechanisms is particularly well suited for analyzing these dynamics. This introduction presents the concept of causal mechanisms, as well as different approaches to analyzing mechanisms in transnational social policy dynamics. It then summarizes the key findings of the individual articles, which utilize a plurality of mechanism‐based approaches to enable a fine‐grained analysis and explanation through in‐depth case studies, covering the fields of pensions, health, vocational education, long‐term care, immigrant welfare rights, and food subsidies. Finally, the introduction reflects on the implications of the findings for the study of transnational social policy dynamics, and how the study of causal mechanisms can enrich our understanding of these processes.

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The causes of welfare state expansion in democratic middle‐income countries: A literature review

Cited by 36 publications

References 96 publications

The complementary roles between clientelism and familism in social policy development

The complementary roles between clientelism and familism in social policy development

Availability of social services for families with disabled children in the context of the welfare state

Causal mechanisms in the analysis of transnational social policy dynamics: Evidence from the global south

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