Partisan Governance, Women's Employment, and the Social Democratic Service State

By E. Huber, John Stephens. American Sociological Review, 2000

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The causes of the expansion and cross-national variation in the provision of welfare state goods and services are examined. Social democratic governance is by far the most important determinant of the public delivery of services and is one of the most important determinants of the public funding of the provision of welfare state goods and services. Christian democratic governance is an important determinant of public funding of services, but is not related to public delivery. State structure is also an important determinant. Women's labor force participation is an important determinant of the expansion of public social welfare services net of other social, political, and historical factors. The analysis also shows an interactive effect of women's labor force participation and social democratic governance on public delivery of welfare state services. We conclude that public delivery of a wide range of welfare state services is the most distinctive feature of the social democratic welfare state and that this feature is a product of the direct and interactive effects of social democracy and women's mobilization.

Subfields: Gender Studies, Political Science and International Relations, Public Administration

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Advances in explaining women's employment patterns (2012, background): “One could argue, however, that causality has been reverse, with high numbers of (already) gainfully employed women having created political pressure for expanding subsidised public childcare (Huber & Stephens 2000; Pfau-Effinger 2000; Lundin et al. 2008; Havnes & Mogstad 2009).”
Decommodification and activation in social democratic policy: resolving the paradox (2008, methodology): “Meanwhile, evidence from pooled time series analyses of related concepts such as spending generosity, public employment, redistribution, and poverty reduction appeared to support his view that the aim of social democracy was to supplant “markets” with “politics” (to paraphrase the title of his 1985 ”
Worlds of welfare services and transfers (2008, background): “Yet, much less emphasis has been put on the question of welfare services (Alber, 1995; Abrahamson, 1999; Huber and Stephens, 2000; Kautto, 2002).”
The Welfare State and Relative Poverty in Rich Western Democracies, 1967-1997 (2005, background): “Based on significantly different means between poverty before and after taxes and transfers, scholars infer that the welfare state effectively reduces poverty among women, children, the elderly, and the rest of the population (Casper et al. 1994; Christopher et al. 2002; Jantti and Danziger 2000).”
Partisan Politics, the Welfare State, and Three Worlds of Human Capital Formation (2008, methodology): “The remaining variables are controls that are drawn from the literature on the determinants of social spending and are the same controls used by Huber and Stephens (2000, 2001, 2006).”
Economic Globalization and the Welfare State in Affluent Democracies, 1975–2001 (2005, methodology): “Following recent sociological pooled time series analyses of the welfare state (Hicks 1999; Huber and Stephens 2000, 2001a), we use Beck and Katz’s (1995) technique of ordinary least squares with panel corrected standard errors (OLS-PCSE) and a first order autocorrelation correction (AR1).8 Though…”
On the Compatibility of Islam and Gender Equality (2009, background): “There are some scholars who link low levels of women's LMP to dominance of Catholicism, or of Christian-democratic parties, in European countries (Huber and Stephens 2000; Walby 2001).”
Social Policy Responsiveness in Developed Democracies (2006, methodology): “Following the work of Huber and Stephens (2000), women’s labor force participation is coded with a one-year lag.”
The Role of Family Policy Institutions in Explaining Gender-Role Attitudes: A Comparative Multilevel Analysis of Thirteen Industrialized Countries (2004, methodology): “…policies, Ferrarini (2003), using basically the same indicators of family policy models as those used in this article, finds no significant relationship, whereas Huber and Stephens (2000) find a significant effect of female labour force participation rate on the provision of welfare state services.”