Name: Religion, Class Coalitions, and Welfare States Paperback (Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion and Politics)
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Author: Van Kersbergen, Kees ; Manow, Philip
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Religion, Class Coalitions, and Welfare States Paperback (Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion and Politics)

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Physical Book

Illustrated by

Kees Van Kersbergen

Philip Manow

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Author

Van Kersbergen, Kees ; Manow, Philip

Year

2009

Language

English

Pages

320

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.6 x 15.0 x 2.3 cm

Weight

0.43 kg.

ISBN

0521723957

ISBN13

9780521723954

Edition No.

Synopsis "Religion, Class Coalitions, and Welfare States Paperback (Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion and Politics) "

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.

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