SOCIA DEMOCRATIC MODEL

Social democratic model of Welfare State

Social democratic model of Welfare State

Introduction

Socialism is one of the three major political ideologies created in 19th Century in addition to the liberalism and conservatism. The term was never clearly defined and includes the wide range of anarchism on parliamentarism and democracy accepting social-democratic, reformist movements, only to revolutionary incurred, communist, authoritarian or totalitarian systems in many variants. Socialists emphasize the core values ??of equality, justice and solidarity, and put most emphasis on a strong correlation between practical social movement theory and social criticism to both towards a socially just develop economic and social order.

Description and Analysis

All social indicators show that in the last thirty years, the quality of life and social well-being have deteriorated so widespread throughout the world, i.e., although to varying degrees, given the relative positions of departure. This deterioration has affected both developing countries and industrialized countries and post-industrialized Europe and America.

Globalization, some argue, creates a world of winners and losers, a few are on the fast track to prosperity, the majority condemned to a life of misery and despair. Indeed, the statistics are distressing. The portion of total income of the poorest fifth of the world has shrunk from 2.3% to 1.4% in the last decade. The proportion that takes the richest fifth, however, has increased. In sub-Saharan Africa, 20 countries have less income per capita in real terms than in the late seventies. In many less developed countries, safety standards and the environment are scarce or nonexistent (Donald 2000, 8). Some transnational companies sell goods that are restricted or banned in industrialized countries, poor quality drugs, destructive pesticides or cigarettes with high tar and nicotine content. Instead of a global village, someone might say, this looks more like a global pillage. This means it is possible to draw a sharp line between the period from the end of World War II (1945) to about the mid-seventies (1973-5) and the subsequent period of economic crisis, which, with ups and downs, continues to this day.

Although, the first of these periods, designated as the golden age of the welfare state by Ian Gouh, which coincides with a period of almost uninterrupted economic expansion, and does not manage to eliminate the problems of inequality, concentration of capital and other signs of imbalance. The fact is that, in general, the period is characterized by having achieved the triumph of a socioeconomic model of social welfare, based on political agreements of the post-war Keynesian, ratified by all European political leaders-what Dahrendorf has called the social-democratic pact, which resulted in acceptable levels of social integration and satisfaction derived from the full employment, mass public provision of collective goods, the steady increase in wages and purchasing power of workers and the general use in European policies of social redistribution. This was possible due to the attainment of high economic benefits from capital investments in various industrial activities, the final implementation of consumer capitalism, involving the global implementation of a rule of workers' consumption, which ...