복지국가의 변화에 대한 이념형 분석 : 신사회위험의 등장과 사회투자전략의 모색

초록

This paper aims to examine a direction and degree of welfare state changes, based on the income support programs for old social risks and the social investment strategies for new social risks. For this purpose, 14 OECD countries are analyzed by using a fussy-set ideal type analysis. As a result, each country has its own strategies to deal with the changes. Nordic and Continental European countries expand their public spending on social investment strategies to deal with economic recession and new social risks. However, Southern European and East Asian countries do not share out new social risks by maintaining their own traditional welfare regime. This study reveals some limitations in an existing argument on the welfare regime: the attribute of a certain welfare state or a certain welfare regime has remained unchanged. Therefore, the welfare state should be recognized as not a fixed form but an ongoing subject in which there are both convergence and divergence in it’s own change strategies.

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