Coalition and party power resources shaped welfare state development.

Evidence

A focus on changes in the distribution of power resources between major interest groups has proved fruitful in the analysis of the emergence and development of citizenship rights. In Western societies the welfare state has gradually come to expand the scope of social citizenship. The welfare state was, of course, not created for any single purpose or by any single party or class. During the period after the Second World War, parties representing workers, farmers, and salaried employees, as well as coalitions between them and more religiously oriented parties, have used democratic politics in attempts to influence distributive processes via the size and shape of welfare states (see, for example, Esping-Andersen, 1985, 1990; Esping-Andersen and Korpi, 1985; Huber, Ragin, and Stephens, 1993; Kangas, 1991; Korpi, 1983, 1989; Myles, 1989; Palme, 1990; Stephens, 1979; Wennemo, 1994). — Walter Korpi, The Iceberg of Power below the Surface, 12

Categorization

• XREF: Names the empirical literature (Esping-Andersen, Korpi, Stephens) the reader will mine for operationalized measures. — connects to: Power-resource shifts between interest groups drove welfare-state citizenship expansion — Walter Korpi, The Iceberg of Power below the Surface:…, 12