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WHY DO WE TRY TO CLASSIFY THE COUNTRIES UP TO THEIR WELFARE AND WHY THIS IS THAT MUCH IMPORTANT?

Since Esping Andersen wrote his modern classic book “Three Worlds of Capitalism”, determining and classifying the countries welfare regime is probably the most committed academic action in the social policy area. Most of academicians try to enlarge Andersen’s classification and also find answers about the welfare regimes of the other countries which Andersen did not put a certain terrain in his classification. But the problem is Andersen’s classification is holistic. Which is tried to give answer about welfare regimes from the bird’s eye. But everyone try to find an answer about his or her country. No wonder in Turkiye, most of academicians in the social policy discipline spend his or her all academic life for giving the answer of this question in the changing concept. But why? Why the classification of societies is that much important?

Classifying the societies according to welfare is actually mean that how these societies organized their social relation up to the market. We can say that welfare classification also refer the marketization of the society. Because of that from the bird’s eye view, marketization of the attainment to welfare also mean that the embedding of social relations on to market. Embedding social relations on to the market is the most desired thing in capitalism. Also tension between the social and the economic stuff is probably the most dangerous thing for capitalism. Classification the societies according to their marketization level give the social policy new targets and also precaution if there is a problem about treatment in the market. That’s why classification is that much important.

Also welfare state level gives more information about democratic industrial capitalist society. What is state position, how the citizenship identified and which one is the principal part in providing the welfare market, civil society or family? These also refer how social policy acquires a shape in this country. Also the classical political views of classification welfare regimes turn into particular features of modern social policy. For example, before general health insurance become compulsory in Turkiye, anybody who finished his or her university life did not need to pay anything for getting in to the system. But after the system applied they have to if they do not have job. After that, getting job has meant more than just getting job; it also refers to getting health insurance right. Also social policy in Turkiye has a new dimension after this progress. What will be the next thing that commodificate and pass up the market side from social side is become the main problem of Turkiye’s social policy. Also when the universal health insurance rules lift up the payment for private hospital that they can receive from the insured, social policy become to argue is this really universal health insurance system or not and which situation is better for insured? Before or after the universal health insurance system.