2010
DOI: 10.5117/9789089642349
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A Long Goodbye to Bismarck? : The Politics of Welfare Reform in Continental Europe

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“…Such interconnections were noted as early as the 1980s by Quadrango in the US where 'changes in benefits programs are related to changes in the labor process', for example by relief programs that maintain 'a pool of marginally employed, low wage workers' who can be moved as employers require between relief assistance and poorly rewarded temporary jobs (Quadrango, 1987: 123-124). Similar interrelations have also been noted in countries with Bismarkian social insurance based welfare states (Palier, 2010). 7 In a wider ranging analysis, Emmenegger et al (2012: 14) argued that, driven by large-scale economic trends such as deindustrialisation and globalisation and reinforced by policy choices promoting liberalisation, in different countries to different degrees there has been growth in inequality, in the incidence of low pay and in the flexibilisation of employment, and this has prompted a political struggle 'in which politically and economically stronger groups are using their power resources to insulate themselves from the negative effects of structural pressures', and this 'translates into the social policy realm'.…”
Section: Theoretical Implicationssupporting
confidence: 73%
“…Such interconnections were noted as early as the 1980s by Quadrango in the US where 'changes in benefits programs are related to changes in the labor process', for example by relief programs that maintain 'a pool of marginally employed, low wage workers' who can be moved as employers require between relief assistance and poorly rewarded temporary jobs (Quadrango, 1987: 123-124). Similar interrelations have also been noted in countries with Bismarkian social insurance based welfare states (Palier, 2010). 7 In a wider ranging analysis, Emmenegger et al (2012: 14) argued that, driven by large-scale economic trends such as deindustrialisation and globalisation and reinforced by policy choices promoting liberalisation, in different countries to different degrees there has been growth in inequality, in the incidence of low pay and in the flexibilisation of employment, and this has prompted a political struggle 'in which politically and economically stronger groups are using their power resources to insulate themselves from the negative effects of structural pressures', and this 'translates into the social policy realm'.…”
Section: Theoretical Implicationssupporting
confidence: 73%
“…In terms of heterogeneity, these countries differ in the ways they manage the solo self-employed, and are characterized by different welfare systems. Germany and France are usually classified as conservative welfares, but with different strategies concerning women employment (Palier, 2010); the Netherlands is a hybrid case between the social-democratic and conservative models (Kammer et al, 2012); Italy represents a Southern European welfare system, with a strong reliance on family support (Ferrera, 1996); the UK is a liberal welfare state and the Slovak welfare state has shifted from a universalistic approach to a residual social system and it has recently been characterized by several employment reforms (Fenger, 2007). The second criterion is the dynamism of the cases, which has meant selecting countries where there are, or have been, documented experiences of collective actions aimed at representing solo self-employed workers, union activities, the creation of new unions and more fluid associations, with the emergence of diverse social collective actors.…”
Section: Our Proposal For a Future Research Agendamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Institutional change worked as an intermediary variable, a transitional element, that does not directly affect the policy itself but prepares the conditions necessary for future policy change. This pattern of change has been highlighted in European research on the politics of welfare reform on the Continent (Palier 2010) and can be seen in the case of US health care policy change. Using favorable procedural instruments, Pelosi and Reid unified Democrats around the reform and then used unorthodox lawmaking to pass it.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 77%