The seminal work by Esping-Andersen (1990) has transformed and inspired social policy
research over the past two decades. Various contributions have confirmed his typology …

In the 30 or so years since the publication of Gosta Esping‐Andersenapos; s Three Worlds
of Welfare Capitalism a number of rival welfare state typologies have emerged. This article …

The goal of this article is to suggest that an extended family of Mediterranean welfare states
exists and that it consists of eight different nations, some of which have been ignored in the …

We present and discuss a replication and reassessment of the welfare-state
decommodification index, and introduce a new, publicly available data set of key welfare …

The advance of economic globalization has led many academics, policy-makers, and
activists to warn that it leads to a'race to the bottom'. In a world increasingly free of …

IN the decade and a half since its publication, Gosta Esping-Ander-sen's Three Worlds of
Welfare Capitalism has loomed large over the comparative analysis of the welfare states of …

After three decades of welfare state crisis, change and transformation can we still speak of
welfare state regimes when looking at their outcomes? The analysis of outcomes provides a …

This article contributes to the welfare state regime literature from a substantive and
methodological perspective. At a very abstract level we confirm the relevance of the welfare …

This article examines whether different types of welfare states mediate the effect of
socioeconomic position on adolescents' health. The authors' main hypothesis is that …

In the extensive literature that has been dedicated during the past fifteen years to the
comparative analysis of the welfare states, a significant number of studies have focused on …