Politics of Segmentation (Routledge Studies in the Political Economy of the Welfare State)
Language: English
Published by Routledge, 2014
Series: Book 16 of 22 - Routledge Studies in the Political Economy of the Welfare State
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- Title
- Politics of Segmentation (Routledge Studies in the Political Economy of the Welfare State)
- Author
- Picot, Georg
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Publication year
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1138812463
- ISBN 13
- 9781138812468
- Series
- Book 16 of 22: Routledge Studies in the Political Economy of the Welfare State
When political parties make policy decisions they are influenced by the competition they face from other parties. This book examines how party competition and party systems affect reforms of social protection. Featuring a historical comparison of Italy and Germany post-1945, the book shows how a high number of parties and ideological polarisation lead to fragmented and unequal social benefits.
Utilising a comparative approach, the author brings together two important issues in welfare state research that have been insufficiently investigated. Firstly, the complex influence of party competition on social policy-making, and second, how some social groups enjoy better social protection than others. Moving beyond the two countries of the case study, the book proposes an innovative framework for studying segmentation of social protection and applies this framework to a wider set of 15 advanced welfare states. Overall, this book draws together different strands of research on political parties and on welfare states, and introduces a new argument on how party politics shapes social policy.
An invaluable text on the political economy of the welfare state, Politics of Segmentation will be of interest to scholars of political economy, social policy and comparative politics.
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Georg Picot is Lecturer in Comparative Social Policy at the University of Oxford, UK.
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