Welfare Regimes and Values in Europe

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 specific characteristics in the support to those Regimes in each country. This creates an aggregation of values which is specific to each of those Regimes. Adapted from the source document.