The Emergence of the Western Welfare State

Kuhnle, Stein; Sander, Anne

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“…A literatura especializada sobre o tema 12,13,14,15,16 destaca que os modernos sistemas de proteção social, regulados por normas nacionais e voltados para cobrir riscos padronizados (acidentes, doenças, velhice, morte e desemprego) para faixas cada vez mais amplas de pessoas e categorias profissionais, de natureza obrigatória para grupos populacionais e/ou poder público, com financiamento múltiplo (Estado, empresários e trabalhadores) e reconhecimento dos benefícios como direitos, surgiram nas sociedades capitalistas europeias no final do século XIX, se consolidaram durante o século XX, especialmente após a 2 a Guerra Mundial, e entraram num período de crise e reformas a partir da década de 1970. Condicionantes de ordem econômica (industrialização e necessidade de acumulação de capital) e de ordem político-institucional (ampliação de direitos, acordos envolvendo capital e trabalho, mobilizações da classe trabalhadora e configurações históricas particulares de estruturas estatais e instituições políticas) ajudam a explicar a origem e o desenvolvimento dos sistemas de proteção social nos países centrais 17 .…”

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Proteção social na América Latina e Caribe: mudanças, contradições e limites

2017

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Resumo Estudos recentes sugerem que os governos da maioria dos países da América Latina e Caribe foram capazes de ampliar os investimentos sociais e introduzir inovações nas políticas de proteção social nas duas últimas décadasEste é um artigo publicado em acesso aberto (Open Access) sob a licença Creative Commons Attribution, que permite uso, distribuição e reprodução em qualquer meio, sem restrições, desde que o trabalho original seja corretamente citado.

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Proteção social na América Latina e Caribe: mudanças, contradições e limites

2017

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“…Marshall asserted long ago that it is an imperative for the government to deliver care work because social welfare is a form of social justice. 102 As such, the welfare state is an essential component of democracy, if a country is to be considered a democracy at all. 103 The key question, therefore, is what promotes development of the welfare state in order to make development of a democracy complete?…”

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Ripples from the First Wave: The Monarchical Origins of the Welfare State

McDonagh¹

2015

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Before the welfare state, people were protected from disabilities resulting from illness, old age, and other infirmities by care work provided within the family. When the state assumes responsibility for care-work tasks, in effect it assumes parental roles, thereby becoming a form of familial government in which the public provision of goods and services is analogous to care work provided in the family. My research pushes back the origins of the state's obligation to care for people to a preindustrial form of government, hereditary monarchies-what Max Weber termed patrimonialism. It explicates how monarchs were cast as the parents of the people, thereby constituting kingship as a care work regime that assigned to political rulers parental responsibility for the welfare of the people. Using historical and quantitative analysis, I establish that retaining the legitimacy of monarchies as the first form of familial government in the course of Western European democratizing makes it more credible to the public and to political elites to accept the welfare state as the second form of familial government. That, in turn, promotes a more robust public sector supportive of social provision. The results reformulate conceptions of the contemporary welfare state and its developmental legacies.

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“…In parallel, the social insurance approach of Germany—having quickly spread to Austria—continued to gain popularity in countries including France (1910), Spain (1919), Portugal (1919) and Chile (1924)—the first country in the Americas to mandate contributions to a social insurance scheme. The treaty of Versailles in 1919 also saw the establishment of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), which has played a major role in the promotion of social insurance schemes from its early establishment (Kuhnle and Sander, )…”

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“…In parallel, the social insurance approach of Germany-having quickly spread to Austria-continued to gain popularity in countries including France (1910), Spain (1919), Portugal (1919 and Chile (1924)-the first country in the Americas to mandate contributions to a social insurance scheme. The treaty of Versailles in 1919 also saw the establishment of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), which has played a major role in the promotion of social insurance schemes from its early establishment (Kuhnle and Sander, 2010) According to de Menil (2002: 110), adoption of either of these models "was roughly balanced until the passage in the United States of the Social Security Act of 1935." With this Depression-era legislation, the US implemented a social security model based principally on social insurance.…”

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The Growing Role of Social Pensions: History, Taxonomy and Key Performance Indicators

Palacios

Knox-Vydmanov

2014

Public Admin & Development

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SUMMARY Social pensions—government‐provided non‐contributory cash transfers to older people—are becoming an increasingly important element of public pension policy. While the history of social pensions is almost as long as social security itself, it is only in the last two decades that they have risen to prominence, particularly in the attempts of developing countries to fill a persistent coverage gap in their pension systems. This article begins by reviewing the history of social pensions, focusing on developments over the last two decades. It then goes on to explore an appropriate taxonomy of social pensions, attempting to move on from the simplistic (and often problematic) division of universal and means‐tested schemes. Drawing on evidence from HelpAge International's Social Pensions Database, the article presents new indicators that can be used to assess the scope of social pensions. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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The Emergence of the Western Welfare State

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Proteção social na América Latina e Caribe: mudanças, contradições e limites

Proteção social na América Latina e Caribe: mudanças, contradições e limites

Ripples from the First Wave: The Monarchical Origins of the Welfare State

The Growing Role of Social Pensions: History, Taxonomy and Key Performance Indicators

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