Abstract
Thinking in terms of regimes and regime types has become popular in comparative welfare research since the late 1980s. Originally stemming from international relations studies, the concept of regime was introduced in welfare state research by Danish sociologist Gøsta Esping‐Andersen, who adapted it in his seminal work onThe Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism(1990) for conceptualizing the institutional nexus of work and welfare in advanced capitalist societies. Building on a welfare regime's capacity to reduce the market dependency of individuals and households (decommodification), its implications for the structure of social inequality (stratification), and the relative importance of the state, markets, and the family in the production of social welfare (welfare mix), Esping‐Andersen claimed that the modern welfare state comes in three ideal typical variants: the liberal, the conservative, and the social democratic models.
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