Health Inequalities Between European Welfare Regimes: The Contribution of Collective Social Capital

Abstract

Previous chapters of this book, as well as previous empirical studies, have suggested that there are differences between countries in terms of levels of social capital (van Oorschot and Arts, 2005). These diversities could very well be a result of the way welfare is produced, distributed, and directed by policy (see also Chapter 3) and it therefore seems plausible also to expect differences in social capital between large clusters of countries such as welfare state regimes.