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Socio-Economic Review 1:63-70 (2003)
© 2003 Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics

Why no socialism anywhere? A reply to Alex Hicks and Lane Kenworthy

Gösta Esping-Andersen

Departament de Cìencies Polítiques/Socials, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

In response to Hicks and Kenworthy's article, I agree that it is probably analytically futile to connect political parties causally to welfare state outcomes—at least if we must rely exclusively on recent data on welfare state attributes. Since political parties and welfare states are part of the same endogenous process there is, however, strong indirect support for their "progressive liberalism" hypothesis.

Key Words: Socialism, liberalism, welfare state • JEL classification: I3 Welfare and poverty, P5 comparative economic systems


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