Alternative Social States and the Basic Income Debate: Institutions, Inequality and Human Development

Haagh, Louise

doi:10.1515/bis-2015-0002

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“…In reality, states that are less plan-rational also tend to involve society and the private sector less, leading to more hierarchical systems and ad hoc interventions (Haagh 2012(Haagh , 2015. Past reluctance in countries with laissez faire regimes like the US and the UK to restrict commercial products that compound obesity and diabetes (Ramesh 2010), can be set against the declaration of war on obesity by the UK prime minister after his own near-death meeting with COVID-19 was related to his weight (Swinford 2020).…”

Section: Covid-19 and The Structures Of Well-being In Economy Statementioning

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Rethinking Democratic Theories of Justice in the Economy after COVID-19

Haagh

2020

Democratic Theory

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This article argues that the COVID-19 crisis has brought to light the importance of state democratic capacities linked with humanist governance. This requires securing individuals’ silent freedoms as embedded in the way “developmental” institutions that constitute social relations and well-being are governed. I argue health and well-being inequalities brought out by the crisis are but a manifestation of the way, in the context of the competition paradigm in global governance, states have become relatedly more punitive and dis-embedded from society. The answer lies in providing a more explicit defence of the features of a human development democratic state. An implication is to move democratic theory beyond the concern with redistributive and participatory features of democracy to consider foundational institutional properties of democratic deepening and freedom in society.

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Rethinking Democratic Theories of Justice in the Economy after COVID-19

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2020

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“…Two intersecting schools within comparative political economy focus on institutional comparison around types of capitalism and welfare state, on the one hand, and mechanisms of change, on the other hand. In the comparative literature on capitalism and labour regimes, also referred to as the Varieties of Capitalism (VOC), the national inclusiveness of skills systems explains economic performance and investment (Hall and Soskice, 2001), and drives a shared commitment to income security and welfare (Pagano, 1991; Thelen, 2004; Haagh, 2012, 2015). The welfare state typology literature pioneered by Gøsta Esping-Andersen (1990, 1999) sets out regime types that broadly track differences delineated in the comparative capitalism literature.…”

Section: Public Governance Capacity In Varieties Of Capitalism and Wementioning

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The Political Economy of Governance Capacity and Institutional Change: The Case of Basic Income Security Reform in European Welfare States

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2019

Social Policy and Society

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This article will situate public debates about – and experiments in features of – basic income within European countries in the context of welfare state crisis and change. Treating access to basic income security as a policy problem, I argue basic income policy debate highlights the need for multi-level and multifactorial analysis of public governance capacity as a key factor in driving the relationship of basic income with welfare state transformation. Drawing on the cases within this themed section, I attempt to tease out what comparatively are long-run conditionsforbasic income within state and society, and what are the political and institutional trade-offs at the current juncture. Exploring contributing determinants of governance corrosion and adaptation of public economic security structures under globalisation contributes to deepen our understanding of contemporary patterns of institutional change.

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“…In contrast to this, I argue that developmental governance supports instead a positive mutual effect between different social aspects of freedom within and across the design of different welfare schemes. Developmental freedom is broadly the freedom to be secure in life-course terms (Haagh, 2015). Independence freedom is the freedom to enjoy security in your own name, as of individual right.…”

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“…The developmental contract tradition and developmental governance it supports has two key linked components: state regulation to promote equality in enjoyment of economic resources and status, reinforced by a cooperative system of public finance; and support by multiple stakeholders for human development processes, identifiable in the way core education and labour market institutions are structured (Haagh, 2012, 2015). Hence, as in other Nordic states, a high level of social equality in Denmark has derived from a complex structure of social inclusion with multiple parts.…”

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The Developmental Social Contract and Basic Income in Denmark

Haagh

2018

Social Policy and Society

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In this article, I discuss why steps towards basic income (BI) ‘from within’ the state are institutionally plausible in Denmark, yet this ‘inside-out’ transition is contested in Danish society. I argue that implementation since the 1990s of the flexicurity regime – labour flexibility with social transfers and training – has stretched the developmental tradition that historically has fed the case for broadly inclusive reforms. An ‘Equality Paradox’ is shaped by two relationships, between high social equality and feasibility of basic income, on the one hand, and high social equality and developmentalism, on the other. The upshot is basic income rests on developmentalism indirectly, as state-promotion of economic equality, cooperative public finance, and human development-oriented governing of core institutions all contribute to the feasibility of a BI reform. The ‘Equality Paradox’ explains why rising inequality and precarity in Denmark make a case for basic income within the public sector but the source of this inequality – neo-liberalism – also puts it at risk.

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Alternative Social States and the Basic Income Debate: Institutions, Inequality and Human Development

Cited by 10 publications

References 12 publications

Rethinking Democratic Theories of Justice in the Economy after COVID-19

Rethinking Democratic Theories of Justice in the Economy after COVID-19

The Political Economy of Governance Capacity and Institutional Change: The Case of Basic Income Security Reform in European Welfare States

The Developmental Social Contract and Basic Income in Denmark

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