Partisan Competition and Welfare State Retrenchment

By Herbert Kitschelt. 2001

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations

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Governments and unpopular social policy reform: Biting the bullet or steering clear? (2009, background): “Furthermore, studies in this strand of research suggest that differences in the system of party competition or party consensus affect the opportunities governments have for pursuing unpopular reform (Green-Pedersen 2002; Kitschelt 2001).”
The Material Consequences of Welfare States (2006, background): “…would use welfare policy data that measure the specific provisions of key welfare programs in order to determine the generosity of the welfare state, and how those program features change across time and space (Castles 1998, 2002; Green Pedersen and Haverland, 2002; Hicks, 1999; Kitschelt, 2001).”
Welfare-State Regress in Western Europe: Politics, Institutions, Globalization, and Europeanization (2003, background): “Kitschelt (2001) as well as Ross (2000) have outlined what factors in political party systems that are likely to favor possibilities for retrenchment.”
The electoral consequences of welfare state retrenchment: Blame avoidance or credit claiming in the era of permanent austerity? (2011, background): “…parties have a particular capacity to enact cuts: ‘[U]p to a certain point of reform commitment, market-liberals may still keep the opposition at bay because of its lack of credibility and/or its inability to form an alliance that could displace the market-liberal party’ (Kitschelt 2001: 276).”
The Dependent Variable Problem within the Study of Welfare State Retrenchment: Defining the Problem and Looking for Solutions (2004, background): “Kitschelt (2001) suggests an index measuring changes made in social security in relation to the level of benefits, eligibility criteria and so forth.”
The Politics of Welfare State Retrenchment: A Literature Review (2006, background): “Depending on the specific configuration of party competition in a political system, it may in fact be left-wing governments that are more successful than their right-wing counterparts in cutting back entitlements (Ross 2000; Kitschelt 2001; GreenPedersen 2002)(6).”