Religion, class coalitions, and welfare states /
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| Imprint: | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009. |
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| Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 304 pages) |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cambridge studies in social theory, religion, and politics Cambridge studies in social theory, religion, and politics. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11826041 |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 304 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511650673 0511650671 9780511626784 0511626789 0511532059 9780511532054 9780521897914 0521897912 9780521723954 0521723957 |