Coalitions of worker, farmer, and salaried parties shape welfare states through democratic politics

Evidence

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

• SHARE: The canonical citation cluster (Esping-Andersen, Korpi, Stephens) is the exact bibliography a power-resources measurement test would have to start from — worth sending to one comparativist.
• XREF: connects to: Power-resource shifts between interest groups drove welfare-state citizenship expansion — Walter Korpi, The Iceberg of Power below the Surface:…, 12