Deck 21: The Welfare State

Question 1

A welfare regime is a complex system of managing social risks provided by the government.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

What contributes to the decommodification of labour?

A) Unemployment payments.
B) Gender-neutral salaries.
C) Contribution-based pension funds.
D) Party work.

Answer 2

A

Question 3

The emergence of the welfare state: What arguments support the institutionalist approach?

A) Early welfare programs were not always targeting workers, but other classes of risk.
B) Weak empirical correlation between economic progress and the development of the welfare state.
C) Early welfare programs aimed at the decommodification of labour.
D) Early welfare programs were an answer to the risks of industrialization.

Answer 3

A,B,C

Question 4

What is the main argument of the neo-corporatist theory of welfare state expansion?

A) Welfare state expansion was most pronounced where social democracy met strong consensus-building mechanisms.
B) Welfare state expansion was most pronounced in small open economies.
C) Welfare state expansion was most pronounced where social democracy met political Catholicism.
D) Welfare state expansion was most pronounced where social democracy met strong trade-unions.

Question 5

What were some of the criticisms against the social democratic model of the welfare state expansion?

A) The working class is not the only risk category the welfare state is aiming at.
B) In some countries the welfare state developed without the presence of a strong democratic labour movement.
C) Neo-corporatism was more important to welfare state expansion than social democracy.
D) The labour unions were more important for the welfare state expansion than the social democratic model.

Question 6

What non-political processes have stimulated the growth of the welfare state?

A) Demographic aging
B) De-industrialization
C) Neo-corporatism.
D) Protectionism.

Question 7

Whats the types of welfare state regimes to their characteristics.

Question 8

A welfare system generally reduces poverty.

Question 9

What is the paradox of distribution?

A) The more a welfare-state is targeting at the poor, the less likely inequality will be reduced.
B) The more a welfare state is concerned with redistribution, the less equality there will be.
C) The more universalistic a welfare state is, the more likely inequality will be reduced.
D) The more a welfare state is concerned with eliminating social stratification, the less likely inequality will be reduced.

Question 10

There is strong empirical evidence that globalization forces welfare states to scale down.