What is welfare system

Welfare systemBritain

Social assistance or support

Social security

Social emergency

What is welfare system

Welfare system(e.g., Iran)

Social assistance or support Social security Social

emergency

What are the welfare services

• Health• Unemployment benefit• Child benefit• Educational support• Housing benefit• pension

Provision of welfare

institutions provide Welfare system

Family or local community market state

By receiving social services through market

You are commodified

By receiving social services in family and or state

You are de-commodified

If the definition of social policy is:all state measures to reduce inequality, which social

concept is more appropriated to measure inequality?

Social stratificationSocial class

three main types orclusters of welfare regimes in Europe

• Liberal welfare states are those in which government provides only a minimum level of welfare services.

• Examples are the USA and Australia, and southern European countries such as Spain and Greece, Britain

• Health and welfare services are typically rather basic. As state-provided services are residual – that is, mainly for the poor –

• it is expected in liberal welfare states that the family and religious or charitable institutions will play a major part in providing health and social welfare services. However, the state organizes and subsidizes social insurance schemes that protect the better-off and those in middle-class occupations.

• Market: central• Family: central• State: marginal

three main types orclusters of welfare regimes in Europe

• Corporatist welfare states, exemplified by Belgium, France, Germany and Ireland, are less dependent on the market and a laissez-faire approach than liberal welfare states.

• the government takes a leading role in organizing and providing health, welfare and education services.

• These services are funded by a mixture of private and social (state) insurance schemes.

• Market: central• Family: central• State: marginal

three main types orclusters of welfare regimes in Europe

• Social democratic welfare states place more emphasis on social equality.

• The Scandinavian countries, especially Sweden, can be seen as representatives of this type.

• State: central• Family: marginal• Market: marginal

What are the levels of communication in the following welfare services?

• Health by market, state or family• Unemployment benefit by market, state or

family• Educational support (scholarship) by market,

state or family• Housing benefit by market, state or family• Pension state or private sector or family

Britain

• Britain introduced a comprehensive and universal welfare system.

• emphasis on equality and citizenship, rights to a wide range of benefits (e.g., ‘free’ health care) or non-means tested

• Unemployment benefit is means tested• Child benefit is non-means tested (all citisend

have right to get it)• Pension, …