Kemppainen, Well-being in socio-political context - European welfare regimes in comparison

The welfare state has an explicit role in the redistribution of purchase power and the provision of health and social services. Welfare states differ not only by how these tasks are institutionally performed but also by the basic cultural values they lean on. In this sense the welfare regime constitutes the socio-political context of our lives, including normative conceptions about social justice and cultural attributions of the causes of different life events. How the welfare state succeeds...