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A Global Ranking of National Social Security Systems
Author(s) -
Dixon John
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
international social security review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.349
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 1468-246X
pISSN - 0020-871X
DOI - 10.1111/1468-246x.00065
Subject(s) - social security , ranking (information retrieval) , statutory law , rank (graph theory) , political science , critical security studies , security studies , international security , sociology , computer science , network security policy , public administration , computer security , security service , information security , law , mathematics , combinatorics , machine learning
There has been a very evident growth in descriptive and analytical comparative social security research over the past 40 years, but only Kaim‐Caudle has taken up the epistemological and methodological challenges of thecomparative evaluation of social security systems. The purpose of this paper is to rank social security systems in 172 countries using a comparative evaluation methodology that enables an assessment to be made of a country’s statutory social security intention. The conclusion drawn is that while seven of the ten best designed social security systems in the world can be found in western Europe, Australia has the best‐designed one.