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Langzeittrends zu mehr Ungleichheit und schwächeren Wohlfahrtsstaaten in Europa

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  • Beckfield, Jason

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After the Second World War, several European welfare states accomplished levels of social equality and economic growth never before seen in modern history. Today, the social contract underlying these achievements is breaking, or has broken, in many European welfare states. Why? How? I argue that the market-liberal turn in European policy-making and polity-making in the 1980s entrenched a regional capitalism that reversed a long-term trend toward growing equality between and within European nations. This end of equalization in Europe is currently taking on a particularly pronounced form, as the peripheries and marginals of Europe grow more peripheral and marginal as the Eurozone crisis deepens. In making my case for these provocative claims, I draw on analyses of individual-level data on household incomes in several EU nations, and macro-level data on EU economies and welfare states.

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  • Beckfield, Jason, 2016. "Langzeittrends zu mehr Ungleichheit und schwächeren Wohlfahrtsstaaten in Europa," WSI-Mitteilungen, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, vol. 69(1), pages 14-20.
    • Handle: RePEc:nms:wsimit:10.5771/0342-300x-2016-1-14
    DOI: 10.5771/0342-300X-2016-1-14
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    1. Arnaud Lechevalier, 2018. "Social Europe and Eurozone crisis: The divided states of Europe," Post-Print halshs-03781898, HAL.

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