L’État, l’économie et la protection sociale aux États-Unis et en Europe
Vivien Schmidt
US and European Market Economies
and Welfare Systems
State strategies toward work and welfare continue to differ,
despite the fact that they have all moved down the continuum from
faire
(intervention) closer to
laissez-faire
. They divide into three main varieties:
liberal, ‘enabling,’ and ‘enhancing,’ and are distinguishable not only by how
far they have moved along the continuum but also by their mix of
faire faire
(state setting guidelines for market action) and
faire avec
(state action with
market actors). Such differences are only partially explainable in terms of institutional
legacies from the postwar period. Other factors such as economic
vulnerability and policy preferences are significant. But most important are
the political-institutional capacity to impose or negotiate change and the discourse
that enhances such capacity. Using cases of advanced industrialized
Western countries, the article demonstrates how different states’ trajectories
of reform based on state strategies and mediating factors have been.
• Explication de la persistance des différences :
stratégies, capacité politico-institutionnelle et discours
— Conceptualisation de la variabilité des stratégies étatiques
— Au-delà de l’héritage institutionnel :
le discours et la capacité politique des institutions
• La persistance des différences stratégiques
— Les stratégies étatiques libérales
— Les stratégies de facilitation
• Les stratégies des États « promoteurs »