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Is the Czech Republic a welfare state? This question is to be answered through this article, whose purpose is to classify Czechia into one of the types of the welfare state. The introduction of the article describes the creation of the welfare state and the main factors influencing its origin. The article also describes the characteristic features of the welfare state and presents its typology. The section entitled “The Czech Republic and the welfare state” expounds on the constituent stages of development of the Czech social policy until the present day. The article concludes with the comparison of some aggregate indicators and characteristics of social policies found in Sweden, Germany and the United Kingdom with similar indicators from the Czech Republic; this basis forms the assignment of the Czech Republic to one of the types of the welfare state.

Is the Czech Republic a Welfare State?

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Is the Czech Republic a welfare state? This question is to be answered through this article, whose purpose is to classify Czechia into one of the types of the...

Welfare state type	Residual	Performance-related	Institutional
Characteristic	liberal	conservative	social-democratic
the state’s responsibility for fulfilling the needs	minimum	optimum	complete
distribution according to the needs	marginal	secondary	primary
range of obligatorily provided services	limited	extensive	complete
population covered obligatorily by provided services	minority	majority	everyone
amount of contributions	low	medium	high
part of the national income intended for the state services	low	medium	high
neediness examination	primary	secondary	marginal
nature of the society’s clients	the poor	citizens	members
clients’ status	low	medium	high
specific country – example	United Kingdom	Germany	Sweden

Is the Czech Republic a Welfare State?

Published Online: Jul 24, 2019

Page range: 185 - 197

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/danb-2019-0010

Keywords
Welfare State, Economic Policy, Social Policy, Public Social Services

© 2019 Christiana Kliková et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

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Characteristics of types (models) of the welfare state

Is the Czech Republic a Welfare State?

Published Online: Jul 24, 2019

Page range: 185 - 197

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/danb-2019-0010

KeywordsWelfare State, Economic Policy, Social Policy, Public Social Services

© 2019 Christiana Kliková et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Figure 1

Figure 2

Figure 3

Figure 4

Figure 5

Characteristics of types (models) of the welfare state

Keywords
Welfare State, Economic Policy, Social Policy, Public Social Services