Empirical Indicators and Existing Typologies

Abstract

Typologies of welfare and production can only be combined when liberal welfare regimes go along with liberal production regimes. In other words, if a country scores high on welfare liberalism, it must also score high on indicators of a liberal production system. In turn, high scores for coordination should go together with indicators of a conservative or social democratic welfare arrangement. This section will check whether this is the case. As indicators for the make-up of a production regime, I use the index by Hall and Gingerich (2004; also cf. 2009). I also use a dummy variable for coordination and a variable for the degree of corporatism as measured by Hicks and Kenworthy (1998). I correlate these with Es**-Andersen’s scores for conservatism, socialism and liberalism, as well as dummy variables for them.