Determinants of a Silent (R)evolution: Understanding the Expansion of Family Policy in Rich OECD Countries

Ferragina, Emanuele; Seeleib-Kaiser, Martin

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“…Using a dynamic perspective, in their analysis of changes in the child-related family policy in rich OECD countries from the 1990s to the 2000s, Ferragina and Seeleib-Kaiser (2014) suggested that the present similarities between Italy and Japan (Spain and Korea unfortunately were not included in their analysis) might be the outcome of different trends in the two countries over the observed period. According to their findings, Italy had made almost no changes, remaining in the lower section of what they defined as the 'Christian democratic space', while Japan had moved from the residualist liberal space to the Christian democratic one.…”

Section: What We Know Based On Existing Comparative Exercisesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Varieties of familialism: Comparing four southern European and East Asian welfare regimes

Saraceno

2016

Journal of European Social Policy

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The aim of this article is to articulate the concepts of familialism and defamilialization as well as their indicators to assess whether and how welfare states, or regimes, differ not only in the degree to which they are defamilialized but also in the specific familialism form. In other words, it assesses whether family responsibility in a given area (and its gender dimension) is only assumed without public policy support or, on the contrary, whether it is actively enforced by laws or supported by income transfers and time allocation. The same diversification also exists for the opposite concept, defamilialization, which may happen through positive, direct or indirect policy interventions or because of the lack of such interventions, encouraging recourse to the market. The article shows that when considering these distinctions in the analyses, the profiles of countries that are usually generically described as ‘familialistic welfare states’, such as Italy and Spain in Europe or Japan and Korea in East Asia, and their similarities and differences partly differ from those that emerge when considering only a simplified familialism – defamilialization dichotomy, in so far both familialism and defamilialization may occur, and be combined, through distinct means, offering, therefore, also different options.

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Section: What We Know Based On Existing Comparative Exercisesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Varieties of familialism: Comparing four southern European and East Asian welfare regimes

Saraceno

2016

Journal of European Social Policy

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176

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“…Between 1990 and 2010, against the background of policies meant to enable women to enter into gainful employment, the growth of 'formalised' services in the domain of care work has been impressive across many European countries, including some of those that were traditionally sticking to a breadwinner culture, e.g. Ireland or Germany (Ferragina and Seeleib-Kaiser, 2015). Concerning recent developments in Eastern Europe after the fall of communism, a similar trend is discernible at least in some countries (see Kampichler et al, 2015).…”

Section: A Success Story: the Evolving Social Service Sector Across Ementioning

confidence: 92%

“…However, the expansion, normalisation and (partial) professionalisation of organised activities gained momentum only after the end of this (Fordist) era. In post-industrial times, expectations regarding such formalised social support do not cease to grow (Ferragina and Seeleib-Kaiser, 2015, for the case of family services), although political responses to them do vary. Against this background, the formation of the social service sector in Europe can be considered a success story.…”

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Social services in post-industrial Europe: an incomplete success story and its tragic moments

Bode¹

2017

Social Services Disrupted

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“…In recent decades, family policies in industrialized countries have undergone significant expansions in both funding and implementation (Adema, Ali, & Thévenon, 2014;Daly, 2011;Ferragina & Seeleib-Kaiser, 2014;Gabel & Kamerman, 2006;Gauthier, 2002;Henderson & White, 2004). This is in contrast to other social protection programs, whose benefits have decreased in generosity during the recent period of retrenchment (Ferragina, Seeleib-Kaiser, & Tomlinson, 2013).…”

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“…Women, in particular, have emerged in this process of change as crucial stakeholders for a new welfare politics that grapples with emerging "new risks" (Bonoli, 2005) while dismantling old assumptions of the traditional male-earner welfare states (Haeusermann, Picot, & Geering, 2013). Taken together, these new policy trends highlight a burgeoning approach to welfare state restructuring that considers rapid changes in labor markets, family organization, and gender norms and wields family policy as a driving force to enact shifts in modern welfare states as a form of modernization (Ferragina & Seeleib-Kaiser, 2014).…”

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Convergence of family policy across welfare regimes (1990 to 2010): Different connotations of family policy expansion

Kang

2018

Int J Soc Welfare

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Using multiple indices of family policy efforts – work/family reconciliation, gender equality and income protection, this study offers a nuanced understanding of family policy expansion in 14 OECD countries across three welfare regimes from 1990 to 2010. Findings suggest an overall convergence of family policies, particularly in gender equality and work/family reconciliation. Convergence has occurred simultaneously with distinctive family policy changes across welfare regimes. Conservative welfare states have experienced the most profound family policy alterations, shifting from a traditional gender model to one that encourages women's employment, but have, nevertheless, maintained policy efforts that sustain the traditional gender role. Despite an increase in their family policy efforts, liberal welfare states have continued to maintain minimal state action regarding family policy. Changes in social democratic welfare states have been less substantial, as they seem to continue to pursue a dual‐earner model with high degree of gender equality and work/family reconciliation.

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Determinants of a Silent (R)evolution: Understanding the Expansion of Family Policy in Rich OECD Countries

Cited by 96 publications

References 73 publications

Varieties of familialism: Comparing four southern European and East Asian welfare regimes

Varieties of familialism: Comparing four southern European and East Asian welfare regimes

Social services in post-industrial Europe: an incomplete success story and its tragic moments

Convergence of family policy across welfare regimes (1990 to 2010): Different connotations of family policy expansion

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