Papers and Authors

Question 1

What is the central statement of Jensen?

Answer 1

1. Transfers and services are different and only lightly correlate - rather both make up regimes.
2. Health care is independently of regime provided by state
3. Services are pre-condition for de-familiarization (create new jobs and relieve women of social care duty)

Question 2

What is the central statement of Gingrich & Häusermann?

Answer 2

1. Decline of traditional working class changes political left’s priorities from social protection to social investment
2. Parties behavior depends on the level of working-class support (right more for WS, left more social investment)

Question 3

What is the central statement of Pierson?

Answer 3

1. What are the causes and dynamics of the retrenchment of welfare state?
2. Puzzle of little welfare state retrenchment. Explanation: unpopularity of retrenchment

Question 4

What is the central statement of Arndt?

Answer 4

Third way WS and impact on SD parties
1. WHY? Due to economic change, socio-cultural change, demographic change → econ necessity and closer to median voter
2. HOW? Tighten eligibility criteria, benefit more conditional on LM activation, shorten benefit duration, reduce replacement rates
3. CONSEQUENCES? De-alignment in MS, re-alignment in PS

Question 5

What is the central statement of Giger & Nelson?

Answer 5

Electoral consequences of WS retrenchment
1. No party family systematically loses votes, while liberal/conservative parties can gain votes through WS retrenchment
2. Not clear why, or why even gain (Preference for less social policy, tax relief, efficiency, blame avoidance?)

Question 6

What is the central statement of Abou-Chadi & Immergut?

Answer 6

Welfare Retrenchment and electoral consequences:
1. Shifting support coalitions for WS policies retrenchment retrenchment or recalibration
2. Extent of welfare retrenchment depends on competition in the next election
3. With high competition, parties focus on vote maximizing: retrenchment more likely for left parties and less likely for right parties

Question 7

What is the central statement of Römer?

Answer 7

Immigrants have more access to welfare programs in more generous welfare states.
1. Dualization: due to fiscal pressures and welfare chauvinism, generous welfare states are more likely to exclude immigrants from access to welfare benefit
2. Generosity: in generous welfare states, an immigrant will get greater access to benefits for material, institutional and cultural reasons

Question 8

What is the central statement of Sainsbury & Morissens?

Answer 8

De-commodifying effects of social policies → to what extend do taxation / transfers reduce poverty rates among native citizens vs immigrants
Also: Of what policies are natives/immigrants profiting more?

Question 9

What is the central statement of Fenwick?

Answer 9

Does increased immigration lead to more or less WS effort?
1. Efficiency: Immigration leads to lower WS effort because of fiscal pressures
2. Compensation: Immigration leads to higher WS effort as people want to be protected against econ competition that comes from immigrants

Question 10

What is the central statement of Schumacher & van Kersbergen?

Answer 10

How do mainstream parties react to Welfare Chauvinism?
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