The discovery of a Southern model The idea of grouping Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Greece into a unique “Southern European welfare model” emerged in the 1990s, in the wake of three debates. The first revolved around Esping-Andersen’s typology of welfare regimes. This only included Italy, as a member of the conservative-corporatist regime, prompting an interest […] L'articolo The Southern Model of Welfare Revisited proviene da Secondo Welfare.