Welfare Reg imes and Values in Europe

Abstract

In this article the relationship between the distribution of values among
the citizens of European countries, and the institutional arrangements of
the social protection schemes of these countries is analysed, as
conceptualised by the most common typologies of Welfare Regimes.
After analysing the distribution of values in Europe, and measuring their
impact on attitudes towards welfare across different Welfare Regimes, it
was observed that those values are not distributed following the
boundaries of the basic typology of these Regimes. The study of
favourable attitudes towards the intervention of the State in the domain
of social protection through a multi-level regression analysis shows,
however, that there are specifi c characteristics in the support to those
Regimes in each country. This creates an aggregation of values which is
specifi c to each of those Regimes.