2. Paths of innovation of care policies in European welfare states
Conveners: Birgit Pfau-Effinger, Hildegard Theobald
2.A
Anttonen Anneli and Häikiö Liisa (Tampere University, FI)
The new care consumer: Ideals, policies and practices
Leon Margarita (University of Kent, UK)
Recent developments in long-term care in the Spanish welfare state: restructuring "familistic" practices
Ciccia Rosella (University of Rome "La Sapienza", IT)
Care and labour regimes in European Advanced Economies: labour markets between care and welfare states.
Eydal Guðný (Iceland University, IS)
Equal legal rights to paid parental leave - the case of Iceland
Distributed papers
Hieda Takeshi ( European University Institute, Florence, IT)
Comparative Political Economy of Long-Term Care for Older People: Political Logic of Welfare State Restructuring
2.B
Zechner Minna (Tampere University, FI)
Social policies and informal care in the Nordic countries and in the United Kingdom
Rummery Kirstein (Sterling University, UK)
A comparative discussion of the gendered implications of cash-for-care schemes: markets, independence and social citizenship in crisis?
da Roit Barbara (University of Utrecht, NL), Le Bihan Blanche (EHESP, School of Public Health, FR)
Long-term care policies in six European countries The development of cash for care schemes
Riegraf Birgit ( Goettingen University, DE)
The change of the organisation of the state - the case of care work. The international debate on New Public Management and social inequalities
In view of the change towards an ‘aging society’ on the one hand, and the rise in the labour force participation of women on the other, the welfare states of post-industrial societies have since the end of the 1980s increasingly been faced with the task of reorganising the area of childcare and care of the elderly. During the 1980s and 1990s, public care provision, cash benefits and leave schemes for caring family members had been introduced in many European countries; these were in part extended since the turn of the Century. More recently, also new policy measures were introduced which are based on market principles and the idea of ‘consumer choice’, like cash-for-care schemes and the strengthening of the role of for-profit providers of care.
However, there were substantial differences with regard to the change that took place between different parts of Europe, e.g. Northern, Continental, Southern Europe and the CEE countries, and also in a comparative perspective between single countries.
The main aim of this stream is to analyse in a comparative cross-national perspective
- How far is it possible to distinguish different paths of social policy innovation in the field of childcare and elderly care in the context of constraints and opportunities?
- To which degree, and why, did social policy innovation in the field of care policies follow an existing path or lead to path departure in single welfare states?
- Which were the driving forces on which the innovation in care policies was based, and which was the role of changing ideas?
- To which degree is it possible to talk about convergence of care policies in Europe, or at least in parts of Europe?
- What is the impact of processes of Europeanization on social policy innovations in the field of care policies?
Papers are invited that focus on these issues from different disciplines.
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