Religion, class coalitions, and welfare states /

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Imprint:Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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
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Other authors / contributors:Kersbergen, Kees van, 1958-
Manow, Philip.
ISBN:9780511650673
0511650671
9780511626784
0511626789
0511532059
9780511532054
9780521897914
0521897912
9780521723954
0521723957
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:This title radically revises established knowledge in comparative welfare state studies and introduces a new perspective on how religion shaped modern social protection systems.
Other form:Print version: Religion, class coalitions, and welfare states. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009 9780521897914
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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.
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