![]() In 2015, nearly 90 per cent of all children between six month and two years were in public-funded daycare, more than 97 per cent of the three to five year-olds were in public kindergartens, while after that age a 12 year long period of compulsory education follows. The upbringing of children is seen as too important to leave it to parents alone. ![]() Universal childcare has therefore become a responsibility of the Danish welfare state, and the Danish invest a great deal of time and money in long-term public childcare. Danish child care institutions had acquired a strong position before the costs of welfare arrangements came under attack. These arrangements were established in a time when public spending and the growth of the welfare state were not under discussion. Welfare regimes analysis (WRA) is a body of theoretical literature that has sought to understand the determinants of institutional arrangementsįrom the early 1960s, Denmark possesses a high quality, professionalised network of child care facilities, covering the whole country. We speak here of the theoretical literature on welfare regimes. The task of this chapter is to consider a body of theoretical literature that has sought to furnish an account of the determinants, properties, and effects of arrangements governing welfare and inequality across countries and to assess its evaluate its value for understanding patterns of welfare and inequality in marketizing East Asia. Similarly, however, accounts that view social policy and other institutional complexes that support reproductive aspects of social life as a realm cordoned off from the 'real' economy, have little hope of grasping determinants of mechanisms and arrangements shaping welfare and inequality. ![]() ![]() As such, political economy accounts that examine welfare and inequality with reference mainly to markets and growth have little hope of providing an adequate account of determinants of welfare and inequality in marketizing East Asia or other settings. Markets, however, represent only a part of a broader totality of social relations and institutional arrangements that shape patterns of welfare and inequality across and within countries. As the preceding chapters have shown, in the contemporary context markets figure centrally in the determination of welfare and inequality, and the role of markets has become even more pronounced with marketization. Institutional arrangements governing welfare and inequality are the historically-emergent product of social relations in and across specific historical settings. ![]()
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