Los Estados de Bienestar ante la globalización

Abstract

The period of the "thirty glorious" (1945-1975) appears as the "golden age” of the Welfare states. Throughout last decades, they have benefited from a very positive conjuncture both to demographic, economic and cultural levels, and his development has been important. But, from the half of the seventies, the situation is invested, putting to it proves the systems of social protection. The questions that ensue from all this are, for the supporters of the first thesis, attributable to the big competition linked to the globalization and to the monetarist policies which, to fight against the unemployment, have replaced the Keynesian policies, provoking the minor progression of the salaries, the multiplication of the precarious employments and the reduction of social presentations. Not uselessly, the second thesis insists on the unequal capacities of adaptation to the globalization of the different types of Welfare states. If the most liberal countries seem to adapt better to the new economic context, the crisis of 2008 has showed a major resistance of the models conservative-corporate and social-democratic.