Types of Welfare State Regimes in the European Union

Abstract

The article examines a set of quantitative social indicators, using hierarchical cluster analysis, in order to overview how welfare regimes in the European Union exist and change over time. Regime typologies of the welfare state are major tools of generalising across the advanced welfare states. Our results indicate that, first, the previously known types of welfare state regimes within the European Union proved to be distinct types indeed, with the exception of the Anglo-Saxon model, and second, the East Central European type of welfare state regime has emerged.