It can be said that government support can take different forms depending on the type of liberal democracy, equality based or inequality based. Hence, we should be able to expect to see specific type of government support associated with equality and inequality based liberal democracy, which raises the question, what type of government support should we expect in each case? What do you think?
Dear Lucio, here You have to draw Your attention to welfare states modelling problems. Equality/unequality problem is closely connected to choose/rejection of certain welfare states models, defined and argued by R.Titmuss, G. Esping-Andersen, M. Ferrera and many other researchers who carried out the research on welfare models typology and the direction of social policy. It was and is not only quantitative research (for example, decommodification indexes), but also qualitative research of values such like sociality, "I" or "We" discourse (please, look to M.Goede book on ResearchGate), etc.
Dear Arvydas, I appreciate your comment.
I am looking at the same issues but from the sustainability angle and paradigm shifts, in this case about liberal democracy and the support that you should expect under equality and inequality….The same question can be asked about the liberal market model, and of the combination of both….of the this combination in response to external issues such as external shocks like the covid-19 pandemic shock or market crashes or the shift traditional market thinking to the green market model....And for example, in this green world, welfare economics as we know it no longer exist, green welfare economics takes its place....as now you are not dealing with pareto optimality but green pareto optimality...
This question was the base or starting point of the other ideas that were coming, as no comments were made, I continued expanding the ideas of liberal democracy under equality and inequality and extended them as in the articles below:
I am sure you will find some interesting food for thouthgs:
Sustainability thoughts 113: How can the hidden unequal nature of the liberal democracy model be detailed step by step?
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341283921_Sustainability_thoughts_113_How_can_the_hidden_unequal_nature_of_the_liberal_democracy_model_be_detailed_step_by_step
Sustainability thoughts 112: How can the hidden unequal nature of the liberal market model be detailed step by step?
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341283920_Sustainability_thoughts_112_How_can_the_hidden_unequal_nature_of_the_liberal_market_model_be_detailed_step_by_step
Sustainability thoughts 114: How can the hidden unequal nature of the science based liberal democracy model and the hidden unequal nature of the liberal market model be linked? What are the implications of this?
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341833069_Sustainability_thoughts_114_How_can_the_hidden_unequal_nature_of_the_science_based_liberal_democracy_model_and_the_hidden_unequal_nature_of_the_liberal_market_model_be_linked_What_are_the_implications
Sustainability thoughts 116: How the economic science based liberal democracy model should be expected to react when facing external shocks under inequality?
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341833133_Sustainability_thoughts_116_How_the_economic_science_based_liberal_democracy_model_should_be_expected_to_react_when_facing_external_shocks_under_inequality
Sustainability thoughts 120: How are paradigm shift knowledge gaps created? In which ways can they lead to the mishandling of expected paradigm shifts?
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342654767_Sustainability_thoughts_120_How_are_paradigm_shift_knowledge_gaps_created_In_which_ways_can_they_lead_to_the_mishandling_of_expected_paradigm_shifts
Dear Lucio Munoz,
Yes, welfare economics, as earlier, is narrowing, welfare green economics is on the way, but You, as a humanist, should know that besides welfare economics as economics, there exists welfare as social policy, welfare as social security in its redistributional political or social understanding. I argue that welfare state is more sociological and political science subject than economical. And You, dear Lucio, may have that in mind too.
Dear Arvidas, ask yourself why welfare economics exist? and why it is called welfare economics and not something else? The answers will help you understand what green welfare economics is and why it is more responsible than traditional welfare economics and how that answer is linked to this question and the type of government support you should expect to received/be given in a democracy under equality and what you should expect under inequality.
If you have ideas directly related to this specific question , please share them.
Otherwise let's leave it here
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