Gøsta Esping-Andersen

Gøsta Esping -Andersen ( b. 1947 ) is a Danish political scientist and sociologist.

He is a professor of sociology at the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. His research and publications are primarily concerned with the welfare state.

Life

Gøsta Esping -Andersen was born in 1947 in Denmark, the son of a Swedish pianist and a Danish employee of the World Bank. He grew up in Denmark, Iran, and Syria, California, where he lived with his parents. At the University of Copenhagen, he graduated as a Master of Science degree. He received his doctorate at the University of Wisconsin degree. From 1978 to 1985 he was a professor at Harvard University, in the following year at the Science Centre Berlin for Social Research and to 1994 at the European University of Florence. Between 1994 and 2001 he taught then also in the Italian Trento. The Danish Roskilde University awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2001.

Esping -Andersen is also a member of several social science institutes in Europe, such as the Danish Institute for Social Research. Worldwide he published in numerous journals articles, for example in the American Sociological Review or in the European Journal of Industrial Relations (see: Industrial relations ). He is one of the most renowned social scientists of our time. Even in international organizations such as the United Nations, the World Bank and the OECD, the Dane worked with. Council looked for the National Governments of Portugal and Belgium during their European Presidency. The SPD has discovered it for its reform debate to the welfare state, including the former Minister and current Mayor of Hamburg Olaf Scholz.

Currently Gøsta Esping- Andersen is again a professor of sociology at the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. He lives here with his wife and two coming from Morocco adopted sons.

The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism

The basic book The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism by Esping- Andersen Gøsta typed welfare states.

Liberal Anglo-Saxon

In this type dominates the market logic and private insurance. Welfare state services are mild and coupled to means testing. A minimum wage is secured by minimum wages. The United States are of this type, which coincides with liberal market economies.

Conservative- continental European

In this type there are in addition to the basic security services such as pensions or unemployment benefits linked to previous work and social insurance contributions. Conservative is " preserving the standard of living" to understand the meaning of. Social Security benefits are paid according to the equivalence principle, ie depending on the amount and duration period of unpaid contributions. Germany belongs to this type, which usually goes hand in hand with sectorally coordinated economies.

Scandinavian social democratic-

In this type, the nature of work as a tradable commodity is largely reduced ( dekommodifiziert ) and compensated by government-guaranteed wage replacement benefits. This is known as a universal welfare state. In addition to monetary hedging is a dense network of social services, active labor market policies to very good child care. Sweden belongs to this type. The model of a nationally coordinated Economy meets more often, with this welfare state model.

Publications

• The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism (1990 )
• Welfare States in Transition (1996 ) (ed. )
• Social Foundations of Post Industrial Economies (1998)
• Why We Need a New Welfare State (2002)

Press ( links )

• Reviews to Why We Need a New Welfare State (2002)
• Elisabeth Niejahr: " Policy of changing " In: THE TIME No. 41 of 2 October 2003