The Spanish Development of Southern European Welfare

"This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in The Survival of the European Welfare State on 2000, available online: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9780203380314/survival-european-welfare-state-stein-kuhnle".In Spain, welfare has historically incorporated some of the most characteristic features of the continental 'conservative corporatis' model of social policy. In the last two decades, in incrementalist patterns has developed with regard to welfare services and income policies alongside some inherited corporatist practices --despoticand democratic-- from both late Francoism and the transitional period to democracy (1976-79), respectively.Peer reviewe