Religion, class coalitions, and welfare states / edited by Kees van Kersbergen, Philip Manow.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kersbergen, Kees van, 1958- editor.

Manow, Philip, editor.

Series:

Cambridge studies in social theory, religion and politics.

Cambridge studies in social theory, religion, and politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public welfare--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Public welfare.

Welfare state.

Social classes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 304 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Religion, Class Coalitions, & Welfare States

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book radically revises established knowledge in comparative welfare state studies and introduces a new perspective on how religion shaped modern social protection systems. The interplay of societal cleavage structures and electoral rules produced the different political class coalitions sustaining the three welfare regimes of the Western world. In countries with proportional electoral systems the absence or presence of state-church conflicts decided whether class remained the dominant source of coalition building or whether a political logic not exclusively based on socio-economic interests (e.g. religion) was introduced into politics, particularly social policy. The political class-coalitions in countries with majoritarian systems, on the other hand, allowed only for the residual-liberal welfare state to emerge, as in the US or the UK. This book also reconsiders the role of Protestantism. Reformed Protestantism substantially delayed and restricted modern social policy. The Lutheran state churches positively contributed to the introduction of social protection programs.

Contents:

Religion and the western welfare state : the theoretical context / Philip Manow and Kees van Kersbergen

Western European party systems and the religious cleavage / Thomas Ertman

The religious foundations of work-family policies in western Europe / Kimberly J. Morgan

Italy : a Christian democratic or clientelist welfare state? / Julia Lynch

Religion and the welfare state in the Netherlands / Kees van Kersbergen

A conservative welfare state regime without Christian democracy? The French État-Providence, 1880-1960 / Philip Manow and Bruno Palier

Religion and the consolidation of the Swiss welfare state, 1848-1945 / Herbert Obinger

The church as nation? The role of religion in the development of the Swedish welfare state / Karen M. Anderson

The religious factor in U.S. welfare state politics / Jill Quadagno and Deana Rohlinger

Religious doctrines and poor relief : a different causal pathway / Sigrun Kahl.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-20195-0

0-521-72395-7

0-511-65067-1

0-511-53296-2

0-511-53205-9

0-511-53387-X

OCLC:

609834340