The Three Political Economies of the Welfare State
Gøsta Esping-Andersen
International Journal of Sociology
Vol. 20, No. 3, The Study of Welfare State Regimes (Fall, 1990), pp. 92-123
(pp. 111--113)
Welfare states vary considerably with respect to their principles of rights and stratification. This results in qualitatively different arrangements among state, market, and the family. The welfare state variations we find are therefore not linearly distributed, but clustered by regime types.