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In this paper, we attempt to incorporate an innovative and more comprehensive view of defamilization into the comparative analysis of real-type welfare state models. The study presents four empirically distinguished welfare state regimes where we consider separately both notions associated with (de)familization and (de)genderization together with other dimensions characterizing different welfare state models. In a multivariate statistical analysis framework, we examine 25 European countries using data covering the period between 2014 and 2017. Our findings suggest that whereas Southern European countries represent various welfare state models, most of the analyzed Central and Eastern European countries form a separate group. Similarly, the Nordic countries, except Iceland, belong to the same cluster. However, CEE countries and Nordic countries represent extremely divergent models in terms of the degree of degenderization, but similar in terms of family policy, the public-private mix, as well as welfare state generosity. The data also show that the extensive welfare state coexists with the state's predominance in delivering welfare provisions. Moreover, we demonstrate that neither t

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Author

Filip Chybalski; Edyta Marcinkiewicz

Publisher

Informa UK Limited

Published

2021

Language

EN

Field

Social Sciences