Party Politics and Childcare: Comparing the Expansion of Service Provision in England and Germany

Fleckenstein, Timo

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9515.2010.00744.x

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“…Despite Germany’s recent attempts to shift social policies from the male breadwinner and female homemaker family towards an adult worker model (Fleckenstein, 2011), the study demonstrates that conservatism also acts as a boundary to shape women’s entrepreneurial careers. Historically, the employment of women, especially those who are mothers of young children, was strongly discouraged (Fleckenstein, 2010), and reinforced by lean social services and the marriage-based joint taxation system constituting serious barriers to female employment. Women, therefore, face a diverse range of barriers as they move towards entrepreneurship and gender inequality is built into their working lives.…”

Section: Performing Entrepreneurship: Between the Symbolic Spaces Of mentioning

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Articulating the entrepreneurship career: A study of German women entrepreneurs

Braches

Elliott

2016

International Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurs

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This article examines how German women construct accounts of entrepreneurship as a gendered career. While becoming an entrepreneur was deemed preferable to not having a career, the interpretative repertoires emerging around entrepreneurial careers mainly referred to structural barriers. These included 'anti-child anti-woman' attitudes within German society or acceptance of the 'male game' due to gendered role expectations embedded within social institutions. Interpreted from a career perspective, the findings indicate that entrepreneurial careers do not meet women's expectations as they are subject to the same gendered constraints as those faced in waged employment. The article contributes to boundaryless career theory by illustrating how, even within a country of high employment rates and talent shortage, Germany's status as a conservative welfare state builds gender inequality into entrepreneurial women's lives to constrain career choices.

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Section: Performing Entrepreneurship: Between the Symbolic Spaces Of mentioning

confidence: 99%

Articulating the entrepreneurship career: A study of German women entrepreneurs

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Elliott

2016

International Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurs

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“…113 Vote-seeking explanations of Christian Democratic family policy see the ideological change of the German Christian Democrats as the result of 'party modernization in response to electoral competition for female votes'. 114 Accounts focusing on the female substantive representation argue that, in the case of the Christian Democrats, 'the women's union, was moving from a primarily coffee serving society to a significant internal party actor'. 115 However, taking a second look reveals that most of these secular explanations are not entirely secular.…”

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Unsecular Politics in a Secular Environment: The Case of Germany's Christian Democratic Union Family Policy

Hien¹

2013

German Politics

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“…We find left and right parties championing remarkably similar political discourses in their attempts to mobilize voters and especially female voters, who are most receptive to family policy expansion (Fleckenstein, 2010;Seeleib-Kaiser, et al, 2008). Thus, research into how party competition has shaped family policy reform in East Asia not only has potential to make important contributions to the East Asian welfare capitalism literature, but also allows crossfertilization between the Eastern and Western scholarship in the field of welfare state research.…”

Section: Post-industrialization Democratization and The Rise Of Fammentioning

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Democratization, post-industrialization, and East Asian welfare capitalism: the politics of welfare state reform in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan

Fleckenstein

Lee

2017

J. int. comp. soc. policy

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This review article provides an overview of the scholarship on the establishment and reform of East Asian welfare capitalism. The developmental welfare state theory and the related productivist welfare regime approach have dominated the study of welfare states in the region. This essay, however, shows that a growing body of research challenges the dominant literature. We identify two key driving factors of welfare reform in East Asia, namely democratization and post-industrialization; and discuss how these two drivers have undermined the political and functional underpinnings of the post-war equilibrium of the East Asian welfare/production regime. Its unfolding transformation and the new politics of social policy in the region challenge the notion of "East Asian exceptionalism", and we suggest that recent welfare reforms call for a better integration of the region into the literature of advanced political economies to allow for cross-fertilization between Eastern and Western literatures.Keywords: Democratization, Post-Industrialization, Welfare Capitalism, Developmentalism, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan.East Asian welfare states have experienced comprehensive reforms in the last two decades.Following the regional "pioneer" of Japan, the neighbouring South Korea and Taiwan have introduced unemployment protection schemes, and have universalized health-care provision and old-age security. Also observed has been increased state intervention in child and longterm care in the region, including Japan. Welfare state expansion in the three countries, with the rise of social citizenship, challenges perceived wisdom in the literature. According to de-3 velopmental welfare state theory, and the related productivist welfare regime approach, social policy (driven by technocrats) is strictly subordinated to the primary policy goal of economic development, and therefore social welfare provision is confined to "productive" parts of the population (in particular, regular workers in key industries). However, recent policy expansion benefited presumably "non-productive" parts of the population as well (such as the unemployed, women, children, and the elderly), whilst the deregulation of employment protection undermined the developmentalist "welfare-through-work" system. This article reviews the literature on the establishment and reform of East Asian welfare capitalism. In so doing, we focus on the research examining the political and socio-economic drivers of the unfolding transformation of East Asian welfare capitalism; with a focus on Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. We show how democratization (that is, the end of authoritarianism in Korea and Taiwan, and the end of one-party dominance in Japan) and post-industrialization (that is, both labour market and family changes, such as the rise in female employment and the decline of traditional families) have undermined the post-war equilibrium of the East Asian welfare/production regime. Democratization has allowed the rise of political parties and societal actors in social policy-maki...

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Party Politics and Childcare: Comparing the Expansion of Service Provision in England and Germany

Cited by 13 publications

References 56 publications

Articulating the entrepreneurship career: A study of German women entrepreneurs

Articulating the entrepreneurship career: A study of German women entrepreneurs

Unsecular Politics in a Secular Environment: The Case of Germany's Christian Democratic Union Family Policy

Democratization, post-industrialization, and East Asian welfare capitalism: the politics of welfare state reform in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan

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