Negara kesejahteraan
Negara kesejahteraan adalah negara dengan konsep pemerintahan yang mengambil peran penting dalam perlindungan dan pengutamaan kesejahteraan ekonomi dan sosial warga negaranya. Konsep ini didasarkan pada prinsip kesetaraan kesempatan, distribusi kekayaan yang setara, dan tanggung jawab masyarakat kepada orang-orang yang tidak mampu memenuhi persyaratan minimal untuk menjalani kehidupan yang layak. Istilah ini secara umum bisa mencakup berbagai macam organisasi ekonomi dan sosial. Sosiolog T.H. Marshall mengidentifikasi negara kesejahteraan sebagai gabungan demokrasi, kesejahteraan, dan kapitalisme. Para pakar menaruh perhatian khusus pada cara Jerman, Britania Raya dan negara-negara lain mengembangkan sistem kesejahteraannya secara historis.

Negara-negara kesejahteraan saat ini meliputi negara Nordik seperti Islandia, Swedia, Norwegia, Denmark, dan Finlandia. Mereka menerapkan sistem yang dikenal dengan istilah model Nordik. Esping-Andersen mengelompokkan sistem negara kesejahteraan paling maju menjadi tiga kategori: Demokratik Sosial, Konservatif, dan Liberal.

Negara kesejahteraan memerlukan transfer dana dari negara ke jasa-jasa yang disediakan (misalnya layanan kesehatan dan pendidikan) dan perorangan (dalam bentuk tunjangan). Dana tersebut berasal dari sistem pajak redistribusionis dan sering disebut sebagai contoh "ekonomi campuran". Perpajakan semacam itu biasanya meliputi pajak pendapatan yang lebih besar bagi orang-orang berpendapatan tinggi, yaitu pajak progresif. Ini dapat membantu mengurangi kesenjangan pendapatan antara penduduk kaya dan miskin.

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Catatan kaki

Referensi 
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Pranala luar 
 An introduction to social policy 
 Social Security Programs Throughout the World
 Race and Welfare in the United States 
 García Calvo's Analysis of Welfare Society
 Shavell's criticism of social justice programmes
 Principles of Fairness versus Human Welfare: On the Evaluation of Legal Policy.
 Journal containing free daily information on welfare policies at local, national and EU level 
 Western nations with social safety net happier. Benjamin Radcliff, September 25, 2013.
 "Widefare: Asia's Emerging Welfare States Spread Themselves Thinly" The Economist: Asia, July 6, 2013
 Lee Hyo-sik. "Korea Next to Last in Social Welfare Spending". The Korea Times, February 12, 2010. South Korea now spends less, but article points out that its rate of spending growth reached an annual average of 10.8 percent from 2004 through 2008, twice the OECD average, and predicts this rate of increase will continue its upward curve as the government has to spend more to care for the elderly and encourage people to have babies.

Data dan statistik 
 OECD - Health Policy and Data: Health Division Website
 OECD - Social Expenditure database (SOCX) Website
 Contains figures on wages and benefit systems in various OECD member states
 The impact of benefit and tax uprating on incomes and poverty
 Contains information on social security developments in various EC member states from 1957 to 1978 
 Contains information on social security developments in various EC member states from 1979 to 1989 
 Contains information on social assistance programmes in various EC member states in 1993 
 Contains detailed information on the welfare systems in the former Yugoslav republics