Gone with the Crisis? Welfare State Change in Europe Before and Since the 2008 Crisis

Buendía, Luis; Serrano, Pedro; Simarro, Ricardo Molero

doi:10.1007/s11205-020-02286-y

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“…Thus, the Covid-19 pandemic of the early 2020s revealed the profound imbalances inherent in contemporary societies, breeding new social divisions and deepening pre-existing ones for many (see Lupton 2022;Natili et al 2023). Putting aside this natural disaster, the twenty-first century started off with global banking turmoil, which had a substantial impact upon the distribution of life course opportunities among European citizens (Buendía et al 2020). Furthermore, over the last years, these opportunities were hit by rising costs of living and a slackening economy in many countries.…”

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“…Apparently, 'not all forces and pressures move in the same directions', even as 'conflicts and contradictions … produce indeterminate spaces of agency' (Clarke and Newman 2012: 103; see also Jensen et al 2019). On the one hand, both economic and cultural forces appear to unsettle the architecture(s) of organised welfare provision in twenty-first century Europe as various welfare schemes have seen cutbacks or a decline in benefit generosity (Buendía et al 2020;Dukelow 2021;Ferragina et al 2022). On the other hand, it seems that movements of welfare retrenchment have often been confined to some programmes and countries, with welfare state spending remaining stable in total (Kerstenetzky and Pereira Guedes 2021), at least when considering developments in the new millennium and leaving aside some exceptions in the south of Europe.…”

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“…On the other hand, efforts to improve the economy do not always run smoothly. Various challenges also hinder this effort, including the crisis (Buendía, Gómez Serrano, & Molero-Simarro, 2020). The economic crisis is diverse and widespread across sectors (A.…”

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Religious Solidarity for Coping with Economic Crisis During the Covid-19 Pandemic

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Ilhamdi

2023

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The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated the global and local economies. However, it has also contributed to the functioning of social solidarity in dealing with crisis pressure among local people which became a survival strategy for various businesses. This paper aims to map the patterns of economic pressure resulting from a pandemic and analyze social strength factor that became a survival strategy in the economic field. This research was conducted on several Chinese Indonesian converts to Islam [mu’alaf] to examine their religious solidarity that served as the strength for their survival as entrepreneurs. Therefore, qualitative research was conducted in a community of converts to Islam in Pontianak city, as one of the centers with a significant number of Chinese populations. In addition to data on crisis they experienced during the pandemic, this research also revealed their perceptions, motivation and actions in response to COVID-19. The results of the research showed that social and spiritual capital is the most important support that allows converts to recover from difficult times. Religion has become the moral basis of these entrepreneurs for solidarity and a source of support in coping with the pressure and problems. In the midst of scarcity of economic resources, religion-based social resources have become the answer to the problems encountered by these entrepreneurs.

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“…This is a system of social protection where liberalisation processes favoured supply‐side policies to the detriment of redistributive compensatory policies for low‐income individuals and households. At the empirical level and from a less radical perspective, the concept of retrenchment is employed to identify a generalised reduction of welfare state provisions 6 (Allan & Scruggs, 2004; Brady & Lee, 2014; Buendía et al, 2020; Clayton & Pontusson, 1998; Hay & Wincott, 2012; Huber & Stephens, 2001; Korpi, 2003; Korpi & Palme, 2003; Starke, 2007; for a review Ebbinghaus, 2015; Greve, 2020; Levy, 2010; Starke, 2006; see also Pierson, 1994). Accordingly, most welfare states, even those social democratic systems traditionally generous in the past (Anderson, 2001), underwent significant retrenchment processes (see the notion of ‘contingent convergence’, Hay, 2000, 2004).…”

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Welfare state change as a double movement: Four decades of retrenchment and expansion in compensatory and employment‐oriented policies across 21 high‐income countries

Ferragina

2022

Soc Policy Adm

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We conceptualise and measure welfare state change across 21 high‐income countries as a continuum delineated by a double movement, that is, the combined change of compensatory and employment‐oriented policies. Our double movement framework readapts Polanyi's concept into the context of welfare state change. We analyse this double movement across four decades using Principal Component Analysis and a new indicator that compares spending in 2015 to maximum and minimum spending levels since the 1980. We contribute to the literature in three ways. First, we empirically document an overall change in spending for compensatory and employment‐oriented policies, with the latter becoming more prominent over time. This change is more pronounced in the 1990s and even more so in the 2000s, and partially reduced classic regime differences. The PCAs generate a Cartesian space where each country is positioned across time (the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s and the 2010s) and space (within four quadrants, i.e., ‘the strong employment‐oriented space’, ‘the weak employment‐oriented space’, ‘the strong compensatory space’, and ‘the weak compensatory space’). Second, we develop a fivefold taxonomy of welfare state change characterised by: (1) retrenchment in Canada, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom; (2) abridged adaptation in Australia, Belgium, Finland, Norway, Spain and the United States; (3) minor expansionary adaptation in Greece, Italy, Japan, Portugal and Switzerland—where spending levels were low in the 1980; (4) adaptation with an equilibrium between the two movements in New Zealand and (5) strong expansionary adaptation in Austria, Denmark and France. Overall retrenchment and abridging adaptation prevail over expansionary adaptation—this is due to cutbacks of unemployment, family allowances and active labour market programmes not being counterbalanced by the expansion of childcare. Third, we critically interpret these changes, introducing the double movement concept into comparative social policy.

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Gone with the Crisis? Welfare State Change in Europe Before and Since the 2008 Crisis

Cited by 5 publications

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The Fate of Social Modernity

The Fate of Social Modernity

Religious Solidarity for Coping with Economic Crisis During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Welfare state change as a double movement: Four decades of retrenchment and expansion in compensatory and employment‐oriented policies across 21 high‐income countries

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