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Determinants of the timing of social insurance legislation among 18 OECD countries
Author(s) -
Kim Kyoseong
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
international journal of social welfare
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.664
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1468-2397
pISSN - 1369-6866
DOI - 10.1111/1468-2397.00148
Subject(s) - modernization theory , social insurance , legislation , autonomy , state (computer science) , politics , economics , social contract , social change , political science , economic growth , public economics , economic system , market economy , law , algorithm , computer science
The purpose of this paper is to determine which theory best explains the development of social insurance programs. The survival analyses of 4 social insurance programs in 18 OECD countries present mixed results. The adoption of each social insurance program is developed and related to a combination of industrialism, modernization, left‐wing participation, state autonomy, and international environment. Based on these findings, it is concluded that no single paradigm adequately explains the adoption of each of the social insurance programs. However, the combination of two society‐centered approaches – namely, logic of industrialism and political conflict explanation – and a state‐centered approach better explains the origin and development of modern social policy than does the international diffusion theory.