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Ten Worlds of Welfare Capitalism

A Global Data Analysis

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Authors:
  1. Christian Aspalter

    1. BNU-HKBU United International College, Zhuhai, China

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  • Provides the first empirically tested global welfare regime theory

  • Introduces the reader, students, and scientists alike, to the vast open plains of the new world of global data analysis

  • Applies a new quantitative method, using Aspalter’s Standardized Relative Performance Index

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introductory Part: Background and Rationale

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction: On the Particular Nature of Ideal Types Applied and Moving Science Forward a Bit at a Time

      • Christian Aspalter
      Pages 3-16

  3. Theory Building: From Empirical Reality for Social Policy Practice

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
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    2. On the Methodology Applied

      • Christian Aspalter
      Pages 19-31

    3. Ten Ideal–Typical Worlds and Their Individual Sets of Key Characteristics

      • Christian Aspalter
      Pages 33-56

    4. Welfare Regimes and Their Povertization and Inequality Outcomes

      • Christian Aspalter
      Pages 57-124

    5. Distinct Shades and Patterns of Dehumanization: Mapping Global Welfare Regimes

      • Christian Aspalter
      Pages 125-140

  5. Correction to: Ten Worlds of Welfare Capitalism

    • Christian Aspalter
    Pages C1-C1

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 177-210
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About this book

This book presents a new step farther into the twenty-first century, for the first time truly combining a comprehensive global data analysis with social policy theory development. The theory of global ideal-typical welfare regimes, also known as the “Ten Worlds of Welfare Regime Theory”, as set forth earlier by Christian Aspalter, is now in this book tested empirically using a quantitative global data analysis for the first time. The strong and rich results fully vindicated the Ten Worlds Theory. All in all, about 150 countries are included in this test, measuring numerous variables on two main dimensions, i.e., povertization and inequality. The innovative approach of using a new indicator, Aspalter’s Standardized Relative Performance Index, is applied, which facilitated the exact measurements of distances between relative performances of each variable, each dimension, each country, and each ideal-typical welfare regime (in relation to one another, respectively). In addition, one explanative and one normative meta-study is added to the book, to point to ways to understand and deal with the global culprit of inequality and, hence, poverty.


“On the backdrop of decades of comparative theoretical and empirical research we now, for the first time, have a truly global analysis of welfare regimes.” ---- Peter Abrahamson, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen

Authors and Affiliations

  • BNU-HKBU United International College, Zhuhai, China

    Christian Aspalter

About the author

Christian Aspalter is the author of over 25 books in Social Policy, including Health Policy. He is one of the leading theorists in social policy and a leading comparative Health Policy and Social Policy scholar. His most recent book publications comprise Financing Welfare State Systems in Asia, Ideal Types in Comparative Social Policy, The Routledge International Handbook to Welfare State Systems, Development and Social Policy, Health Care Systems in Developing Countries in Asia, Health Care Systems in Europe and Asia, and Active Aging in Asia. His forthcoming books also include Covid-19 Pandemic: Problems Arising in Health and Social Policy, Super Inequality: Theoretical Essays in Economics and Social Policy, as well as Elgar Research Encyclopedia of Social Policy.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Ten Worlds of Welfare Capitalism

  • Book Subtitle: A Global Data Analysis

  • Authors: Christian Aspalter

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7863-0

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-7862-3Published: 03 February 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-7865-4Published: 03 February 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-7863-0Published: 02 February 2023

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 210

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Comparative Social Policy, Politics of the Welfare State, Employee Health and Wellbeing

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