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Conflict and consensus in social policy development
Author(s) -
VÄISÄNEN ILKKA
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
european journal of political research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.267
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1475-6765
pISSN - 0304-4130
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-6765.1992.tb00315.x
Subject(s) - unemployment , consensus theory , social insurance , social conflict , relation (database) , welfare state , public economics , accident (philosophy) , welfare , variation (astronomy) , social policy , social welfare , economics , social change , political science , economic growth , politics , philosophy , physics , epistemology , database , computer science , astrophysics , law , market economy
. In the study of welfare state development, we find divergent approaches which assign differing weights to consensus and conflict as well as to various causal factors behind changes in social policy. This paper moves beyond the traditional concentration on social expenditures and tests the role of different causal factors by focussing instead on the development of social rights in the areas of workplace accidents, sickness, and unemployment insurance. Hypotheses derived from competing approaches are tested in relation to the relative development of social rights in these three policy areas and in relation to variation in social rights in accident insurance.