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Citation link: https://doi.org/10.26092/elib/653
The impact of the Second World War on postwar social spending.pdf
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The impact of the Second World War on postwar social spending


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Authors: Obinger, Herbert  
Schmitt, Carina  
Abstract: 
The huge quantitative literature on post-war social spending almost entirely neglected war as a possible explanatory factor of social spending dynamics. Given the mass carnage and the enormous social needs caused by World War II this is quite astonishing. This paper examines for the first time, whether and in what ways World War II affected cross-national differences in public social spending of 18 Western welfare states over the course of the Golden Age. Using panel regressions, we find that World War II strongly affected social spending until the late 1960s. Our evidence demonstrates that the Second World War is not simply a temporal watershed structuring different phases of welfare state development but rather a crucial factor for understanding cross-national differences in welfare efforts and social expenditure dynamics in the post-war period.
Keywords: World War II; Social spending; Welfare State
Issue Date: 5-Sep-2017
Publisher: Wiley
Journal/Edited collection: European Journal of Political Research 
Start page: 496
End page: 517
Note: 2
Band: 57
Type: Artikel/Aufsatz
ISSN: 1475-6765
DOI: 10.26092/elib/653
URN: urn:nbn:de:gbv:46-elib48564
Institution: Universität Bremen 
Faculty: Fachbereich 08: Sozialwissenschaften (FB 08) 
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