Religion, Class Coalitions, and Welfare States

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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.

Author Biography:

Kees van Kersbergen is a Professor of Political Science of VU University Amsterdam. He served as director of the Centre for Comparative Social Studies until 2007 and has also been professor of political science at the Radboud University (Nijmegen). He is the author of Social Capitalism 1995), which won the Stein Rokkan Prize in Comparative Social Science, and co-editor of Expansion and Fragmentation. Internationalization, Political Change and the Transformation of the Nation State. Philip Manow is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Konstanz. Previously, he was a researcher at the Max-Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, and visiting fellow at the Centre for European Studies, Harvard, and at the Centre d'Etudes Europeennes, Sciences Po, Paris. His work has been published in numberous journals and collections, including European Journal of Political Research, West European Politics, Comparative Political Studies, The New Politics of the Welfare State (2001), and Federalism and the Welfare State (2008).

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April 6th, 2009

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Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion and Politics

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Edited by Kees Van Kersbergen
Edited by Philip Manow

Pages

320

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Professional & Vocational

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4 Tables, unspecified; 1 Line drawings, unspecified

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150x226x23

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9780521723954

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2853942

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