Global Gender Regimes

Introduction to Regime Types

Based on: Huber, Evelyne and John D. Stephens. 2000. “Partisan Governance, Women’s Employment, and the Social Democratic Service State.” American Sociological Review 64(3): 323-342.

See pg. 328 Table of Types of Welfare States (see also footnote 8: based on Esping-Anderson’s classifications (1990)

Social Democratic (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden)

Christian Democratic (Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland)

Liberal (Australia, Canada, UK, US)

Difference among regime types

Size of Public Sector (measured by % employed in government)

Means of service delivery – Public delivery (centralized welfare state) or Decentralized delivery (private sector, non-profits, churches)

Analyze Data

Findings: Social Democratic party control and constitutional design (more centralized; fewer veto points) PLUS strong women’s labor force participation led to pressures for welfare state expansion and public service delivery

Interactive effect, reinforcing phenomena

The Spectrum of Political Ideologies

European spectrum

US Spectrum

Two axes Spectra