UID:
kobvindex_DGP1639551522
ISSN:
0043-8871
Content:
Scholars from a number of disciplines have argued that the massive expansion of the welfare state in the postwar period was at least in some part a byproduct of the cold war and the associated political competition between two rival regime blocs. However, the question of whether regime competition fuelled welfare-state growth has never been subject to systematic examination. Applying spatial econometrics, this article offers the first empirical test of this argument. The authors' findings support the notion that regime competition stimulated the expansion of the welfare state on both sides of the Iron Curtain in the postwar period. (World Politics / SWP)
In:
World politics, Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Press, 1949, 63(2011), 2, Seite 246-270, 0043-8871
Language:
English
Author information:
Obinger, Herbert 1970-
