Discussion
“The risks of welfare-state backlash depend not on spending, but on the class character of the welfare state. Middle-class welfare states, be they social democratic or corporatist forge middle-class loyalties. In contrast, the liberal, residual welfare states depend on the loyalties of a numerically weak, and often political residual, social stratum”
In this sense, the class coalition in which the three welfare state regime-types were founded, explain not only their past evolution but their future progress.
What is their future progresses?