The lost and the new 'liberal world' of welfare capitalism: a critical assessment of Gøsta Esping-Andersen's the three worlds of welfare capitalism a quarter century later

Christopher Deeming

doi:10.1017/S1474746415000676

The lost and the new 'liberal world' of welfare capitalism: a critical assessment of Gøsta Esping-Andersen's the three worlds of welfare capitalism a quarter century later

Christopher Deeming

Social Policy

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Abstract

Celebrating the 25th birthday of Gøsta Esping-Andersen's seminal book The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism (1990), this article looks back at the old ‘liberal world’ and examines the new. In so doing, it contributes to debates and the literature on liberal welfare state development in three main ways. First, it considers the concept of ‘liberalism’ and liberal ideas about welfare provision contained within Three Worlds. Here we are also interested in how liberal thought has conceptualised the (welfare) state, and the class-mobilisation theory of welfare-state development. Second, the article elaborates on ‘neo-’liberal social reforms and current welfare arrangements in the English-speaking democracies and their welfare states. Finally, it considers the extent to which the English-speaking world of welfare capitalism is still meaningfully ‘liberal’ and coherent today.

Language	English
Pages	405-422
Number of pages	19
Journal	Social Policy and Society
Volume	16
Issue number	3
Early online date	9 Mar 2016
DOIs	10.1017/S1474746415000676
Publication status	Published - 1 Jul 2017

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Deeming, C. (2017). The lost and the new 'liberal world' of welfare capitalism: a critical assessment of Gøsta Esping-Andersen's the three worlds of welfare capitalism a quarter century later. Social Policy and Society, 16(3), 405-422. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474746415000676

Deeming, Christopher. / The lost and the new 'liberal world' of welfare capitalism : a critical assessment of Gøsta Esping-Andersen's the three worlds of welfare capitalism a quarter century later. In: Social Policy and Society. 2017 ; Vol. 16, No. 3. pp. 405-422.

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In: Social Policy and Society, Vol. 16, No. 3, 01.07.2017, p. 405-422.

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