Big Data and the Welfare State

How the Information Revolution Threatens Social Solidarity

AvTorben Iversen,Philipp Rehm

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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A core principle of the welfare state is that everyone pays taxes or contributions in exchange for universal insurance against social risks such as sickness, old age, unemployment, and plain bad luck. This solidarity principle assumes that everyone is a member of a single national insurance pool, and it is commonly explained by poor and asymmetric information, which undermines markets and creates the perception that we are all in the same boat. Living in the midst of an information revolution, this is no longer a satisfactory approach. This book explores, theoretically and empirically, the consequences of 'big data' for the politics of social protection. Torben Iversen and Philipp Rehm argue that more and better data polarize preferences over public insurance and often segment social insurance into smaller, more homogenous, and less redistributive pools, using cases studies of health and unemployment insurance and statistical analyses of life insurance, credit markets, and public opinion.

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Utgivningsdatum:2022-05-19
Mått:151 x 228 x 15 mm
Vikt:400 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781009151399

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Torben Iversen is Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University. His most recent book (co-authored with David Soskice) is Democracy and Prosperity: Reinventing Capitalism through a Turbulent Century (2019). Philipp Rehm is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Ohio State University. His research interests are located at the intersection of Political Economy and Political Behavior.

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'Big Data and the Welfare State is a big book. Iversen and Rehm take a familiar observation-that advances in science and technology are stripping away our 'veil of ignorance' about health and income risks-and turn it into a revelatory account of the changing structure and politics of national welfare states. Anyone concerned about inequality and social policy in the information age (and everyone should be) has to read this book.' Jacob S. Hacker, Stanley Resor Professor of Political Science, Yale University and author, The Great Risk Shift: The New Economic Insecurity and the Decline of the American Dream (2nd ed., 2019)

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction; 2. A theoretical framework; 3. A brief analytical history of social protection; 4. Private markets for life and health insurance; 5. Credit markets; 6. Labor market risks; 7. Conclusion.