The History of the Welfare State 1870 to 2000: Values, Institutions

The History of the Welfare State 1870 to 2000: Values, Institutions, Struggles and
Change – HT 2013 – Steffen Werther
Updated reading list
Reading advice: You should start with the Esping-Andersen book - which is absolutely
essential. The book introduces Esping-Andersen’s typology and his view on more recent
developments referring to different welfare regimes.
Parlier’s anthology presents an overview- followed by various detailed case studies - of the
“conservative” (continental) welfare state.
Noble discusses the US-American welfare state and its history.
After that you can go on with the articles of Arts /Gelissen, Morissens/Sainsbury and Bambra
which present part of the critique that was formulated against Esping-Andersen’s typology.
Books:
Esping-Andersen, Gøsta (1990). The three worlds of welfare capitalism. Cambridge.
Palier, Bruno (red.), A long goodbye to Bismarck?: the politics of welfare reforms in continental
Europe, Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, 2010:
www.oapen.org/download?type=document&docid=350731
Noble, Charles, Welfare as we knew it: a political history of the American welfare state, Oxford Univ.
Press, New York, 1997
Most important articles:
Arts, Antonius/Gelissen, John (2002): Three worlds of welfare capitalism or more? A state-of-the-art
report, in: Journal of European Social Policy, volume 12, p. 137-158.
http://esp.sagepub.com/content/12/2/137
Bambra, Clare (2004). The worlds of welfare: illusory and gender blind?. Social Policy and Society, 3,
pp 201-211
http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S147474640400171X
Urban Klas & Klas Åmark (2001): Social Rights and Social Security: The Swedish Welfare State, 19002000, Scandinavian Journal of History, 26:3, 157-176
Niels Finn Christiansen & Klaus Petersen (2001): The Dynamics of Social Solidarity: The Danish
Welfare State, 1900-2000, Scandinavian Journal of History, 26:3, 177-196
Pauli Kettunen (2001): The Nordic Welfare State in Finland, Scandinavian Journal of History, 26:3,
225-247
Øyvind BjØrnson (2001)- The Social Democrats and the Norwegian Welfare State- Some
Perspectives, Scandinavian Journal of History, 26-3, 197-223
Andersson, Jenny, 'Nordic Nostalgia and Nordic Light: the Swedish model as Utopia 1930-2007',
Scandinavian Journal of History, 34: 3, 229 — 245
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03468750903134699
Alberto Spektorowski and Elisabet Mizrachi, Eugenics and the Welfare State in Sweden: The Politics
of Social Margins and the Idea of a Productive Society,: Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 39, No.
3 (Jul., 2004), pp. 333-352
http://www.jstor.org/stable/3180732
Morissens, A., & Sainsbury, D. (2005). Migrants' Social Rights, Ethnicity and Welfare Regimes. Journal
of Social Policy, 33(4), 637-660.
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayFulltext?type=1&fid=341700&jid=JSP&volumeId=34&is
sueId=04&aid=341699&bodyId=&membershipNumber=&societyETOCSession
John Gal, Is there an extended family of Mediterranean welfare states? Journal of European Social
Policy, 0958-9287; Vol. 20(4): 283–300
http://esp.sagepub.com/content/20/4/283
Other articles:
The Scandinavian Origins of the Social Interpretation of the Welfare State Peter Baldwin
Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 31, No. 1 (Jan., 1989), pp. 3-24
Andrew Abbott and Stanely de Viney (1992) “The welfare state as transnational event: evidence
from sequences of policy adoption” Social science history 16(2) p.245-274
From Poverty to Perversity: Ideas, Markets, and Institutions over 200 Years of Welfare Debate
Margaret R. Somers and Fred Block American Sociological Review, Vol. 70, No. 2 (Apr., 2005), pp.
260-287
Why Do Welfare States Persist? Clem Brooks and Jeff Manza The Journal of Politics Vol. 68, No. 4
(Nov., 2006), pp. 816-827
Gender in the Welfare State Author(s): Ann Orloff Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 22 (1996), pp.
51-78
Welfare-State Regress in Western Europe: Politics, Institutions, Globalization, and Europeanization
Author(s): Walter Korpi Source: Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 29 (2003), pp. 589-609
Political Thought and the Welfare State 1870-1940: An Intellectual Framework for British Social
Policy Jose Harris Past & Present, No. 135 (May, 1992), pp. 116-141
State Authority and National Welfare Programs in the World System Context George M. Thomas and
Pat Lauderdale Sociological Forum, Vol. 3, No. 3 (Summer, 1988), pp. 383-399
The Welfare State in France, 1870-1914 Author(s): Philip Nord Source: French Historical Studies, Vol.
18, No. 3 (Spring, 1994), pp. 821-838
Gender, Welfare, and Citizenship in Britain during the Great War Author(s): Susan Pedersen Source:
The American Historical Review, Vol. 95, No. 4 (Oct., 1990), pp. 983-1006
Political Sociological Models of the U.S. New Deal Jeff Manza Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 26
(2000), pp. 297-322

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