The Heterogeneity Politics of the Welfare State: Changing Population Heterogeneity and Welfare State Policies in High-Income OECD Countries, 1980-2005

• Published in: Politics & policy (Statesboro, Ga.) Vol. 41; no. 6; pp. 947 - 984
• Main Author: Wagle, Udaya R.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Malden Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.12.2013; Policy Studies Organization; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: Appropriations and expenditures; Associations; Comparative analysis; Ethno-Racial Diversity; Expenditure; Heterogeneity; Immigration; Immigration Diversity; Immigration Policy; International Comparative Policy; Mixed Model; OECD; Politics; Population; Population Heterogeneity; Population Policy; Population research; Public welfare; Religious pluralism; Social Expenditures; Social policy; Welfare and Social Policy; Welfare State
• ISSN: 1555-5623; 1747-1346
• DOI: 10.1111/polp.12053

Whether and how developments and changes in welfare state policies are related with population heterogeneity has been a subject of contention. This article examines this relationship using data on welfare state provisions and practices, and ethno‐racial, religious, and immigration heterogeneity, from 17 high‐income Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development countries between 1980 and 2005. Findings suggest that while religious diversity lacks a systematic association with welfare state policies, the relationship of ethno‐racial and especially immigration diversity bifurcates between welfare state decommodification and expenditures. The welfare state expenditure‐increasing and welfare‐state‐provision‐decreasing roles of immigration, in particular, provide important insights into why welfare state policies may have been limited in some countries and lately scaled back in others. Related Articles: Gainous, Jason, Stephen C. Craig, and Michael D. Martinez. 2008. “Social Welfare Attitudes and Ambivalence about the Role of Government.” Politics & Policy 36 (6): 972‐1004. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1747‐1346.2008.00147.x/ Byrne, Jennifer. 2011. “National Identity and Attitudes toward Immigrants in a ‘Multicreedal’ America.” Politics & Policy 39 (4): 485‐514. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1747‐1346.2011.00301.x/ Flavin, Patrick, Alexander C. Pacek, and Benjamin Radcliff. 2011. “State Intervention and Subjective Well‐being in Advanced Industrial Democracies.” Politics & Policy 29 (2): 251‐269. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1747‐1346.2011.00290.x/ Related Media: Databases: by Wagle, Udaya. 2013. “Databases.” http://homepages.wmich.edu/~uwagle/ CIA World Factbook Online. https://www.cia.gov/ Ha sido tópico contencioso establecer cómo están relacionados desarrollos y cambios en el estado de bienestar con la heterogeneidad de la población. Este estudio examina tal relación utilizando datos de prestaciones y prácticas del estado de bienestar. Así como datos de heterogeneidad étnica racial, religiosa, y de inmigración de 17 naciones de alto ingreso de la OCDE entre los años 1980 y 2005. Los resultados sugieren que aunque la diversidad religiosa carece de una asociación sistemática con las políticas del estado de bienestar, las relaciones entre diversidad étnica‐racial y especialmente la inmigración, se bifurcan entre la desmercantilización del estado de bienestar y los gastos de dicho estado. Los roles de la inmigración de por un lado, incrementar del gasto del estado de bienestar y por otro, reducir las prestaciones de dicho estado proveen importantes perspectivas de por qué las políticas del estado de bienestar podrían haberse limitado en algunos países e incluso revertido en otros.