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31 - Welfare State Policies and Their Effects

from V - Established and New State Policies and Innovations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 February 2020

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Stephanie Moller  and
Tengteng Cai
Edited by
Thomas Janoski ,
Cedric de Leon ,
Joya Misra  and
Isaac William Martin
Thomas Janoski
Affiliation:
University of Kentucky
Cedric de Leon
Affiliation:
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Joya Misra
Affiliation:
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Isaac William Martin
Affiliation:
University of California, San Diego
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Summary

The term “welfare state” reflects the portfolio of social welfare policies and programs within countries. Welfare state scholarship in the early twentieth century focused primarily on sources of welfare state development and expansion. By the turn of the century, the literature shifted toward examining the effects of welfare states, and the policies that compose them, on societal outcomes. Initially, this research examined the effects of welfare states on aggregate levels of poverty and inequality. More recently, as power resource theory and intersectional theory gained traction as important predictors of income and inequality, scholars increasingly turned their attention toward examining the differential effects of welfare states and their constituent policies on inequality between and within subgroups in society, and they expanded the types of outcomes studies, moving beyond income-based measures.

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welfare statesocial policyinequalitysocial rightscitizenshipintersectionality
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The New Handbook of Political Sociology , pp. 812 - 841
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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