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Welfare State Regimes and Reforms: A Classification of Ten European Countries between 1990 and 2006

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2011

Manuela Arcanjo
Manuela Arcanjo*
Affiliation:
ISEG, Technical University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal E-mail: marcanjo@iseg.utl.pt
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Abstract

As from the beginning of the 1990s, almost all European countries have introduced wide-reaching social changes, among others in eligibility, entitlement, benefits structures and in the sources of financing. In this article, we propose that a consequence of those reforms may have been a repositioning of some countries in the welfare clusters. To test this hypothesis, we apply the two bi-dimensional classifications of Bonoli (1997) and Kautto (2002) to ten countries as representative of different welfare regimes. Our results reveal an interesting repositioning of some countries, especially Portugal, the UK and Sweden that represents evidence of welfare state reforms.

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Social Policy and Society , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , April 2011 , pp. 139 - 150
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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