CHANGES IN THE WELFARE STATE AND THEIR IMPACT ON THE SOCIAL ECONOMY: CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE THEORETICAL DEBATE FROM A SYSTEMIC AND COMPARATIVE APPROACH

• Published in: Annals of public and cooperative economics Vol. 83; no. 3; pp. 259 - 280
• Main Authors: ETXEZARRETA, Enekoitz, BAKAIKOA, Baleren
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.09.2012; Wiley-Blackwell
• Subjects: Comparative analysis; Discourse; Economic policy; Economic theory; Public sector; Social economics; social enterprise; Studies; the third sector; Third-party intervention; welfare mix; welfare regimes; Welfare state

The aim of the following article is to contextualize the intense internatinal debate on Social Economy from the point of view of the relationship between it and the evolution of the welfare states. And so, the first section deals with the review of the main theoretical proposals that have tackled th...