Sessione 24 - Path departure in mature welfare states. Investigating policy change in traditionally neglected policy sectors
Elenco sessioni 2024
Visite: 333
Coordinatori di sessione: Marcello Natili (University of Milan) -
Descrizione
Many welfare states were traditionally underdeveloped in some key policy fields. In particular, Southern European welfare states traditionally displayed an unbalanced allocation of resources among welfare state sectors - the so‐called functional distortion, privileging old age at the expenses of all other social risks - and an uneven (social) protection for the different social groups and professional categories - the so‐called distributive distortion privileging insiders vis-à-vis mid-siders and outsiders - most notably women, young jobseekers, and workers relegated within the black economy.
The inadequacy of family, anti-poverty and housing policies along with the scant development of social investment services - childcare, long-term care and active labour market policies - nurtured both kind of distortions. The dramatic outbreak of the Great Recession and the subsequent across the board retrenchment in social policy fields protecting both “old” and “new” social risks”, made all the more visible the weaknesses of these unbalance social protection system and ‘freed’ resources that could be potentially invested in underdeveloped policy fields.
Against such backdrop, this panel aims to analyse, first, whether and how underdeveloped policy fields underwent a substantive transformation in the last decade. Second, it aims to understand which factors triggered policy change in policy sectors which had been neglected for decades.
Accordingly, the panel welcomes papers that address two main research questions:
- are there signs of path-departure from the traditional welfare model?
- what are the determinants of such unprecedented developments in weakly institutionalized (social) policy fields?
Contributions to the panel should investigate – theoretically or empirically – policy developments and, where possible, underpinning political dynamics in traditionally underdeveloped policy fields in Sout European countries as well as in countries with similar unbalanced welfare models.
Papers presenting either comparative analyses – covering more than one country or policy sectors - or case studies are welcome. The panel aims to address these topics from an interdisciplinary and multidimensional perspective, welcoming contributions using quantitative, qualitative or mixed methods approaches.
Contributi:
The Southern Contrast: Explaining the Politics of Welfare Conditionality in Spain, Portugal, and Italy.
Llorenç Soler-Buades (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Still Neglected Italian Family Policies? Historical Trends and Latest Changes in the Lowest-Low Fertility Era
Natalia Tosoni (Università di Bologna)
A Decade of Anti-Poverty Policies in Italy: Powering Without Puzzling
Bianca Luna Fabris (European Trade Union Insitute (ETUI) e University of Edinburgh); Marcello Natili
(Università di Milano)
Le politiche familiari in Italia fra continuità e trasformazione
Emmanuele Pavolini (Università di Milano); Ilaria Madma (Università di Milano)
Non è un Paese per investimenti sociali? Una reinterpretazione della traiettoria di riforma del welfare e della politics del social investment in Italia (1995-2024)
Stefano Ronchi (Università di Milano); Luca Cigna (European University Institute)
Neoliberalization 2.0 Trajectories Post-COVID-19: Divergent Paths of Italy and Spain
Paolo Funari (Università di Milano)
Left-wing Populism and De-Dualization: A Comparative Study of the Movimento Cinque Stelle (2018-2021)
and Unidas Podemos (2020 - 2023)
Walter Haeusl (Scuola Normale Superiore)
Still the Case of a Neglected Policy? Unveiling the Role of the Demand-Side of Politics in the Long-Term Care Sector in Southern Europe.
Cristina Valeria De Tommaso (Università di Milano)
Keeping up with societal development? The politics of paternity leave in Spain
Alice Biscuola (Università di Milano)
