Politically limited pluralism: How European welfare systems deal with the crisis

Simon Hegelich

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-07680-5_35

Politically limited pluralism: How European welfare systems deal with the crisis

Simon Hegelich

University of Siegen

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The concept of "politically limited pluralism" (PLP) was developed well before the onset of the fiscal and economic crisis for describing the common denominator of the "European" Welfare Systems [Hegelich and Schubert (The handbook of European welfare systems. Routledge, 2009)]. This contribution examines to what extent the concept is fruitful also in times of severe crisis. The following considerations are based on the Eurostat COFOG-dataset. The results show that and how far PLP is a convincing theoretical concept. Moreover, parallels to punctuated equilibrium theory (PET) can be discovered.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Challenges to European Welfare Systems
Publisher	Springer International Publishing
Pages	807-822
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Electronic)	9783319076805
ISBN (Print)	9783319076799
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07680-5_35
State	Published - 1 Jan 2016
Externally published	Yes

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