TY - JOUR
T1 - Global welfare regimes
T2 - a cluster analysis
AU - Abu Sharkh, Miriam
AU - Gough, Ian
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - This article tests the claim that a small number of distinct ‘welfare regimes’, combining institutional patterns and social welfare outcomes, can be identified across the developing world. It develops a methodology for clustering a large number of developing countries, identifying and ranking their welfare regimes, assessing their stability over the decade 1990—2000, and relating these to important structural variables. It confirms the distinction between three meta-welfare regimes: proto-welfare state regimes, informal security regimes and insecurity regimes. However, it discriminates between relatively successful and failing informal security regimes. Regime membership is ‘sticky’ over time, but has been modified by two global trends: the HIV-AIDS pandemic in Africa and the growing role of remittances in some countries.
AB - This article tests the claim that a small number of distinct ‘welfare regimes’, combining institutional patterns and social welfare outcomes, can be identified across the developing world. It develops a methodology for clustering a large number of developing countries, identifying and ranking their welfare regimes, assessing their stability over the decade 1990—2000, and relating these to important structural variables. It confirms the distinction between three meta-welfare regimes: proto-welfare state regimes, informal security regimes and insecurity regimes. However, it discriminates between relatively successful and failing informal security regimes. Regime membership is ‘sticky’ over time, but has been modified by two global trends: the HIV-AIDS pandemic in Africa and the growing role of remittances in some countries.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77949589274&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468018109355035
U2 - 10.1177/1468018109355035
DO - 10.1177/1468018109355035
M3 - Article
VL - 10
SP - 27
EP - 58
JO - Global Social Policy
JF - Global Social Policy
IS - 1
ER -