The Paradox of Redistribution and Strategies of Equality: Welfare State Institutions, Inequality, and Poverty in the Western Countries
Walter Korpi,Joakim Palme — The Paradox of Redistribution and Strategies of Equality: Welfare State Institutions, Inequality, and Poverty in the Western Countries (1998)Walter Korpi; Joakim Palme · 1998 · ArticleDisputedSource attached · not independently reviewedCLM-1170 · as of 2026-10-30 · about: Welfare state regimes (three worlds of welfare capitalism) · Author: Polity Atlas editorial team
“Korpi and Palme (1998) found that welfare states with encompassing, earnings-related programmes reduced poverty and inequality more than those that targeted benefits on the poor, which they called the paradox of redistribution.”
Context. Later studies report that the pattern weakened after the 1990s.
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Growing Public: Social Spending and Economic Growth since the Eighteenth Century (vol. 1)
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