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Walter Korpi
Researcher at Stockholm University
Publications - 59
Citations - 9695
Walter Korpi is an academic researcher from Stockholm University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Welfare state & Politics. The author has an hindex of 26, co-authored 58 publications receiving 8952 citations.
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The Paradox of Redistribution and Strategies of Equality: Welfare State Institutions, Inequality and Poverty in the Western Countries
Walter Korpi,Joakim Palme +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare the effects of different institutional types of welfare states on poverty and inequality and find that the more we target benefits at the poor and the more concerned we are with creating equality via equal public transfers to all, the less likely we are to reduce poverty and inequalities.
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The democratic class struggle
TL;DR: In this paper, a case study of class relations, politics and voting in Sweden with a comparative analysis of distributive conflicts and politics in eighteen OECD countries is presented, where the underlying theoretical theme is the development of class relation in free-enterprise or capitalise democracies.
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New Politics and Class Politics in the Context of Austerity and Globalization: Welfare State Regress in 18 Countries, 1975-95
Walter Korpi,Joakim Palme +1 more
TL;DR: The authors argue that retrenchment can fruitfully be analyzed as distributive conflict involving a remaking of the early postwar social contract based on the full employment welfare state, a conflict in which partisan politics and welfare-state institutions are likely to matter.
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Faces of Inequality: Gender, Class, and Patterns of Inequalities in Different Types of Welfare States
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a new typology of welfare states based on institutional structures of relevance for gender inequality as well as class inequality in 18 OECD countries in the arenas of democratic politics, tertiary education, and labor force participation.
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Power Resources and Employer-Centered Approaches in Explanations of Welfare States and Varieties of Capitalism: Protagonists, Consenters, and Antagonists
TL;DR: The power resources approach, underlining the relevance of socioeconomic class and partisan politics in distributive conflict within capitalist economies, is challenged by employer-centered approaches claiming employers and cross-class alliances to have been crucial in advancing the development of welfare states and varieties of capitalism.