Political Science I / The Welfare State: Rise, Crisis, Typologies
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Complete the account of welfare regimes.

Marshall's sequence runs civil rights, then ______ rights, then social rights. Esping-Andersen's key measure is ______, the extent to which a livelihood can be maintained without depending on the market. Ferrera proposed a fourth, ______ European regime type. Feminist critics proposed ______ as the missing axis.

Word bank: political · decommodification · Southern · defamilialisation · economic · Eastern

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  1. The second blank is Esping-Andersen's central concept.
  2. The last blank names independence from the family rather than from the market.
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Marshall's sequence runs civil rights, then political rights, then social rights. Esping-Andersen's key measure is decommodification, the extent to which a livelihood can be maintained without depending on the market. Ferrera proposed a fourth, Southern European regime type. Feminist critics proposed defamilialisation as the missing axis.

Why

The last two blanks are the two accepted amendments to the typology. Defamilialisation is the sharper of them: a regime can score well on decommodification precisely because it assumes women provide unpaid care, which the original measure cannot see at all.

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