Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

CiteULike is a free service for managing and discovering scholarly references - click here to get started.

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
International Journal of Comparative Sociology
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Mueller, G. P.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

Divergence and Synchronization of the Institutional Clocks of the Welfare State

Georg P. Mueller

University of Fribourg, Switzerland, Georg.Mueller{at}Unifr.ch

This article explores the divergence and synchronization of the development of the European welfare states by means of a new concept, that is, social/institutional time The concept enables the author to describe the development of welfare states by means of several time axes, which are complementary to conventional calendar time. On the basis of these multiple time axes, the article first analyses the historical trajectories of 13 European welfare states between 1885 and 1975. By means of factor analyses of the mentioned time data, the article subsequently also tackles the question of the dimensionality of social/institutional time, which is important for identifying the divergence or convergence of welfare state development. Finally, the article presents an integrated model of the interference and synchronization of the different institutional clocks of the welfare state. The model focuses on international and inter-institutional asynchronies for explaining the development of the welfare state between 1885 and 1975 and is corroborated by an empirical test based on the aforementioned time data.

Key Words: asynchronies • convergence • social/institutional time • social security • welfare state • world-system

International Journal of Comparative Sociology, Vol. 46, No. 5-6, 487-506 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/0020715205058629
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?