The Welfare state
What are the parts in the Swedish welfare system?
1. Financial security (which includes financial security systems) 2. Social security (which includes social security systems) 3. Health (which includes health care- related security systems)
What is a welfare state?
A concept of government in which the state or a well established network of social institutions plays a key role in the protection and promotion of the economic and social well being of citizens.
What is a mixed economy?
A mixed economy is public and private sectors
What does the welfare state?
A welfare state is a state that is committed to providing basic economic security for its citizens by protecting them from market risks associated with old age, unemployment, accidents, and sickness.
What did welfare state found?
As a type of mixed economies, the welfare state funds the governmental institutions for healthcare and education along with direct benefits paid to individual citizens.
What is general grants?
Grant that are generally distributed to everyone who is entitled to them
What is searchable grants?
Grants that must be applied for and are often given depending on the income of the applicant.
What is the social democratic welfare state?
It is based on the principle of universalism, granting access to benefits and services to all.
What job do the social insurance have?
It is the government authority whose job is to decide on and pay out a large part of the benefits that are included in the social insurance.
Liberal:
Means tested assistance, and targeted at low- income, usually working- class recipients.
What contract was made in the 1938s between Swedish trade unions and large corporations?
Saltsjöbadsavtalet
Conservative:
Shaped by traditional family values; family benefits encourage motherhood; state help is given when the family cannot support itself.
When did the term "welfare state" emerged?
The term "welfare state" first emerged in the UK during world war 2. It has since been used much more broadly to describe systems of social welfare that have developed since the nineteenth century.
Social democratic:
Univeralistic system
