The social democratic political economies showed higher levels of union density, that is, a greater propor- tion of workers belonging to organised labour unions, social security expenditures, and public employment levels. They had the largest public expenditure in health care from 1960 to 1990, and greatest health care coverage of citizens. These nations instituted full employment strategies, achieved high rates of female employment, and showed the lowest degree of income inequality and poverty rates. They also had the lowest percentage of national income derived from capital investment and the largest from wages. On a key in- dicator of population health—infant mortality—these countries had the lowest rates from 1960 to 1996. Anglo-Saxon liberal political economies.
