Welfare States And Dimensions Of Social Capital: Cross-national Comparisons Of Social Contacts In European Countries

By P. Scheepers, Manfred te Grotenhuis, Jos Gelissen. European Societies: The Official Journal of the European Sociological Association, 2002

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Social capital and health in European welfare regimes: a multilevel approach (2007, background): “As a consequence of high levels of social security, universal welfare states release citizens from personal obligations towards relatives, friends and neighbourhood (Wolfe, 1989; Scheepers et al., 2002).”
Are the poor socially integrated? The link between poverty and social support in different welfare regimes (2008, background): “‘Defamilialization’ of this kind is often equated with a lack of social capital and is seen to be associated with a universal welfare state that renders the family less essential as a producer of welfare and consequently reduces its solidarity, causing social disintegration (Scheepers et al., 2002).”
Why Do People Accept Different Income Ratios? (2005, unknown): “characteristics such as prosperity, welfare type, or communist history and basing explanations on these indicators (Arts and Gelissen, 2001; Gregorio and Lee, 2002; Scheepers et al., 2002).”
THE VARIETY OF SOCIAL CAPITAL IN WELFARE STATE REGIMES – A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF 21 COUNTRIES (2006, background): “( 2002 ), for example, have studied the extensiveness of family ties and bonds of friendship among elderly people in various welfare states.”