From Dismantling by Default to Arena Shifting? Child Benefits Policy in Spain

Bianculli, Andrea C.; Jenne, Nicole; Jordana, Jacint

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199656646.003.0005

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“…Dismantling by default is perhaps the most widespread political dismantling strategy. Examples are child benefits in Spain that for years have been consciously kept at an absolute minimum (Bianculli et al 2012) and the non-indexation of social benefits in a number of northern European countries (Denmark, Sweden, Germany and the UK), even throughout a period of relatively high inflation . Not indexing benefits to inflation is an obvious example of dismantling by default.…”

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A Conceptual Framework for the Comparative Analysis of Policy Change: Measurement, Explanation and Strategies of Policy Dismantling

Bauer

Knill²

2014

Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice

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The analysis of policy change has so far concentrated on the assessment and explanation of different degrees of change. The distinctions between radical versus incremental, pathbreaking versus path-dependent or self-reinforcing versus reactive sequences have dominated the debate while the precise direction of policy change has rarely been taken into account. This article therefore concentrates on the extent to which policy change implies a "reduction", "decrease" or "diminution" of existing policy arrangements. It conceives of this direction of policy change as "policy dismantling". In developing analytical tools to identify and explain policy dismantling, the article aims to elucidate some of the causes, conditions and strategies of policy dismantling and to establish policy dismantling as a distinct category of policy change.

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Section: Dismantling By Default: No Dismantling Decision; Low Visibilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

A Conceptual Framework for the Comparative Analysis of Policy Change: Measurement, Explanation and Strategies of Policy Dismantling

Bauer

Knill²

2014

Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice

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Section: Child Allowances and Tax Deductionsmentioning

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The Policy Context of Fertility in Spain: Toward a Gender-Egalitarian Model?

Baizán

2016

Low Fertility, Institutions, and Their Policies

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Fertility levels have remained very low in Spain since the mid-1980s, implying a future rapid aging of the population. The stagnation of fertility levels is closely linked to the substantial changes in the welfare regime experienced during this period, involving shifts in the share of the cost of children between social institutions. While exchanges of care and financial support across generations are still high, including a prolonged coresidence of young adults with their parents, the role of households as providers of care and other services has substantially declined. The rapid increase in women's labor-market participation has led the dual full-time earner model of family to become the norm, although this trend has not been matched by a similar increase in men's unpaid work.These processes have weakened the ability of households to provide care and have created a demand for both state intervention and market solutions. The resulting care gap has been partially filled by the expansion of non-family childcare, in which the state has had an important role both as provider and regulator of the market. At the same time, childcare within the family has been undermined by policies in the domains of parental leave, parttime opportunities, and child benefits/tax allowances that provide little support to parenthood. Moreover, labor-market deregulation, focused on the young, has brought with it an increase in uncertainty about income, leading to the postponement of family transitions and depressing fertility.

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“…28 Lack of political support for these measures and financial constraints led to their practical disappearance during the 1970s, as the benefits were not updated with inflation (Bianculli et al 2013). In 2009, after several increases, family benefits amounted to 0.67 % of GDP, and tax breaks for families amounted to 0.25 % (OECD 2013b).…”

Section: Child Allowances and Tax Deductionsmentioning

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Low Fertility, Institutions, and their Policies

2016

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From Dismantling by Default to Arena Shifting? Child Benefits Policy in Spain

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A Conceptual Framework for the Comparative Analysis of Policy Change: Measurement, Explanation and Strategies of Policy Dismantling

A Conceptual Framework for the Comparative Analysis of Policy Change: Measurement, Explanation and Strategies of Policy Dismantling

The Policy Context of Fertility in Spain: Toward a Gender-Egalitarian Model?

Low Fertility, Institutions, and their Policies

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