Gender, Policy Regimes, and Politics

Sainsbury, Diane

doi:10.1093/0198294166.003.0009

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“…Anttonen and Sipilä 1996;Bettio and Plantenga 2004;Daly and Lewis 2000;Korpi 2000;Leitner 2003;Sainsbury 1999). Several of these categorisations account for the division of care responsibilities between the family and the state (e.g.…”

Section: Welfare State Influences On Gender Inequalities In Intergenementioning

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Gendered support to older parents: do welfare states matter?

Brandt²,

2011

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The aim of this study is to examine the association of welfare state policies and the gendered organisation of intergenerational support (instrumental help and personal care) to older parents. The study distinguishes between support to older parents provided at least weekly, i.e. time-intensive and often burdening support, and supplemental sporadic support. Three policy instruments were expected to be associated with daughters' and sons' support or gender inequality in intergenerational support respectively: (1) professional social services, (2) cash-for-care payments and (3) legal obligations to provide or co-finance care for parents. The analyses based on the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe showed that daughters provided somewhat more sporadic and much more intensive support than sons throughout Europe. While about half of all children who sporadically supported a parent were men, this applied to only one out of four children who provided intensive support. Logistic multilevel models revealed that legal obligations were positively associated with daughters' likelihood of giving intensive support to parents but did not affect the likelihood of sons doing so. Legal obligations thus stimulate support in a gender-specific way. Both legal obligations and cash-forcare schemes were also accompanied by a more unequal distribution of involvement in intensive support at the expense of women. Social services, in contrast, were linked to a lower involvement of daughters in intensive support. In sum, the results suggest that welfare states can both preserve or reduce gender inequality in intergenerational support depending on specific arrangements.

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Section: Welfare State Influences On Gender Inequalities In Intergenementioning

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Gendered support to older parents: do welfare states matter?

Brandt²,

2011

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“…Commentators (for example, Langan and Ostner, 1991;Lewis, 1992;Borchost, 1994;Bussemaker and Kersbergen, 1994;Daly, 1994;Hobson, 1994;Lewis and Ostner, 1995;Sainsbury, 1994Sainsbury, , 1999 have argued that this 'three worlds of welfare' typology is deeply flawed because it marginalized women in its analysis. Aside from the overt absence of women in Esping-Andersen's analysis, the critique revolves around three other issues: the gender blind concept of decommodification (Daly, 1994;Hobson, 1994;Lewis, 1992), the unawareness of the role of women and the family in the provision of welfare (Borchost, 1994;Bussemaker and Kersbergen, 1994;Daly, 1994), and the lack of consideration given to gender as a form of social stratification (Bussemaker and Kersbergen, 1994).…”

Section: The Gender Blind 'Worlds Of Welfare'mentioning

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“…The debate has included a variety of different critiques: the range (Leibfreid, 1992;Castles and Mitchell, 1993;Ferrera, 1996), the methodology (Kangas, 1994;Ragin, 1994;Shalev, 1996;Pitruzzello, 1999), the omission of gender (Lewis, 1992;Orloff, 1993;Borchost, 1994;Daly, 1994;Sainsbury, 1999), and most recently, the central conceptwelfare state regimes -itself (Kasza, 2002). This paper, through the presentation of a defamilisation index and a subsequent typology, critically engages with the latter two aspects of this debate; the critique that the 'worlds of welfare' typology is gender blind, and Kasza's assertions about the 'illusory nature' of welfare state regimes.…”

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The worlds of welfare: illusory and gender blind?

Bambra¹

2004

Social Policy & Society

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The nature of welfare state regimes has been an ongoing debate within the comparative social policy literature since the publication of Esping-Andersen's The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism (1990). This paper engages with two aspects of this debate; the gender critique of Esping-Andersen's thesis, and Kasza's (2002) assertions about the ‘illusory nature’ of welfare state regimes. It presents a gender-focused defamilisation index and contrasts it with Esping-Andersen's decommodification index to illustrate that, whilst individual welfare states have been shown to exhibit internal variety across different policy areas, they are both consistent and coherent in terms of their policy variation by gender. It concludes, in contrast to both the gender critique of Esping-Andersen, and Kasza's rejection of the regimes concept, that the ‘worlds of welfare’ approach is therefore neither gender blind or illusory, and can, if limited to the analysis of specific areas such as labour market decommodification or defamilisation, be resurrected as a useful means of organising and classifying welfare states.

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“…Criticisms have included neglecting the position of women (Sainsbury, 1999) as well as the role of housing systems. Esping-Andersen's analysis did not incorporate the Southern European nations and was completed before the post-communist Eastern European nations became integrated into European social policy, but scholars have subsequently sought to address these issues (e.g.…”

Section: The Welfare State and Social Housingmentioning

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The 'Arc of Prosperity' Revisited: Homelessness Policy Change in North Western Europe

Anderson

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Finnerty

2016

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This paper compares continuity and change in homelessness policy in Ireland, Scotland and Norway with a particular focus on the period of post-crisis austerity measures (2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012)(2013)(2014)(2015)(2016). The analytical approach draws on institutional theory and the notion of path dependency, which has rarely been applied to comparative homelessness research. The paper compares welfare and housing systems in the three countries prior to presenting a detailed analysis of the conceptualisation and measurement of homelessness; the institutions which address homelessness; and the evidence of change in the post-2008 period. The analysis demonstrates that challenges remain in comparing the nature of homelessness and policy responses across nation states, even where they have a number of similar characteristics, and despite some EU influence towards homelessness policy convergence. Similarly, national-level homelessness policy change could not be interpreted as entirely a result of the external shock of the 2008 general financial crisis, as existing national policy goals and programmes were also influential. Overall, embedded national frameworks and institutions were resilient, but sufficiently flexible to deliver longer term policy shifts in response to the changing nature of the homelessness problem and national policy goals. Institutionalism and path dependency were found to be useful in developing the comparative analysis of homelessness policy change and could be fruitfully applied in future longitudinal, empirical research across a wider range of countries.

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Gender, Policy Regimes, and Politics

Cited by 94 publications

References 8 publications

Gendered support to older parents: do welfare states matter?

Gendered support to older parents: do welfare states matter?

The worlds of welfare: illusory and gender blind?

The 'Arc of Prosperity' Revisited: Homelessness Policy Change in North Western Europe

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