Socio-Political Trends in the Me

Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: European Union, grade: A-Grade with distinction, Berlin School of Economics, course: European Social Policy, language: English, comment: Comparative Analysis of Welfare Systems in different Member States of the European Union under the Theories of Leibfried and of Esping-Anderson , abstract: The Essay's subject is a comparison of different models of welfare regimes in different Member States of the European Union. The comparison is based on the welfare state model of Esping-Anderson. Subsequently the Essay analyses the influence of the different national welfare regime models on the definition and forming of a European Social Model and a European Social Policy, using the model of "five dimensions of European Social Policy" as ell as discussing Leibfried's theses on this special field of European Policy