Worlds of Welfare Capitalism and Wellbeing: A Multilevel Analysis
Worlds of Welfare Capitalism and Wellbeing: A Multilevel Analysis
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DOI：
10.1017/s0047279412000499
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发表时间：
2012-10-01
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2
通讯作者：
Hayes, David
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作者：
Deeming, Chris;Hayes, David
比较政策传统的社会科学家长期以来一直认为，现代资本主义社会的福利制度可以分解为理想的类型。福利资本主义的不同世界的想法具有持久的吸引力和日益增长的实际政策相关性，因为政府寻求提高人口福利。在本文中，我们从幸福的角度探索福利理论的世界。利用世界价值观调查的数据，我们研究了福利制度如何有助于福祉，并考虑了我们的研究结果对社会政策发展的重要性。通过使用多层次模型，有可能分离出由于观察到的和未观察到的，以及个人层面和国家层面的福利国家特征的影响，我们可以推断社会福利在福利类型学中的分布。我们发现，在控制了个人和国家层面的解释变量后，生活在自由和保守国家的受访者的不幸福感至少是生活在社会民主国家的受访者的两倍。观察到的福利世界之间的差异被发现具有高度的统计意义。
Social scientists in the comparative policy tradition have long argued that welfare systems in modern capitalist societies can be broken down into ideal types. The idea of different worlds of welfare capitalism has an enduring appeal and growing practical policy relevance as governments seek to enhance population wellbeing. In this paper, we explore the worlds of welfare theory from the perspective of happiness. Drawing on data from the World Values Survey, we examine how welfare regimes may contribute to wellbeing and we consider the significance of our findings for the development of social policy. By using multilevel models, it is possible to separate out effects due to observed and unobserved, as well as both individual-level and country-level, welfare state characteristics and we can make inferences to the distribution of social wellbeing across welfare typologies. We find that respondents living in liberal and conservative countries experience at least twice the odds of unhappiness of those living in social democracies, after controlling for individual-and country-level explanatory variables. The observed differences between the worlds of welfare were found to be highly statistically significant.