Partisan Governance, Women's Employment, and the Social Democratic Service State

Huber, Évelyne; Stephens, John D.

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“…Our focus was on the diversity within Islam and the Muslim world, in which none of the other religions is codified at the state level. There are some scholars who link low levels of women's LMP to dominance of Catholicism, or of Christian-democratic parties, in European countries (Huber and Stephens 2000;Walby 2001). However, these studies do not analyze the relevance of 'state Christianity' to women's LMP.…”

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On the Compatibility of Islam and Gender Equality

2008

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Although the Muslim world is sometimes depicted as a homogeneous civilization lacking democracy and gender equality, Muslim countries show tremendous economic, political and cultural variation. In this paper, this variation is used to gain insight into the determinants of women's labor market participation (LMP) in the Muslim world. We use data on 45 Muslim countries and apply SEM models to determine effects of modernization, democracy, cultural background, and state Islamization on women's participation in the formal economy (absolute LMP) and on the share of women in the labor force (relative LMP). Women's absolute LMP is higher in Muslim countries with higher levels of economic development and in the oil-exporting countries. For women's relative LMP, practical democracy (the degree to which people actively participate in the system) takes in a key position. It has a strong positive effect on women's relative LMP and mediates the effects of economic development (positive), formal democratic structures (positive) and state Islamization (negative) on women's relative LMP. Results indicate that in these countries modernization may lead to empowerment of women by increasing their absolute LMP, but that for attaining gender equality the political opportunity structures is most important.

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2008

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“…Features determining whether a broad consensus is necessary for change are underlined as particularly important (Galasso and Profeta 2002;Häusermann 2010;Myles and Quadagno 2002;Palier 2010;Tompson 2009). Huber and Stephens (2000) refer to the school stressing these factors as adherents of the "power resources" approach.…”

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“…Less ostensibly, bureaucratic institutions are often in charge of implementation as well, thus they can affect not just the 7 passage of regulatory changes, but the speed and extent with which they are implemented -or with which they erode (called "internal policy conversion" by Hacker 2004). Huber and Stephens (2000) refer to the approach stressing these factors as "state centric. "…”

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Competitiveness, Social Inclusion and Sustainability in a Diverse European Union

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“…Economic openness (econ_open) is included to test the hypothesis that exposure to international markets leads to more demand for social spending (Cameron 1978;Garrett 1998a, b;Rodrik 1999). A female workforce participation variable (female_labor) is included to test the hypotheses that women's labour force participation leads to demands for higher social spending (Huber and Stephens 2000). A variable for the unemployment rate (unemp_pop) helps to control for social spending increases associated with rising unemployment levels (Iversen and Soskice 2010).…”

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Political parties as drivers of post-crisis social spending in liberal welfare states

McManus

2017

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In the aftermath of the global economic crisis, the challenges facing welfare states are unprecedented. While government leaders have been in broad agreement that the severity of the recession called for decisive actions to limit the costs of the crisis, national responses have differed significantly. This article seeks to explain these divergent patterns and answer the critical question: how has the crisis affected the politics of social spending across liberal welfare states? While political conflict over social spending may increase across all countries in the wake of an economic crises, partisanship is expected to have a stronger effect in liberal welfare states, due to weak automatic stabilizer effects and a reliance on discretionary spending. This research tests the effects of political parties on social spending across nine liberal welfare states (Australia, Canada, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, Switzerland, the UK, and the USA) during the pre-crisis (1990-2007) and post-crisis (2008-2013) periods. It also provides in-depth analysis of the USA and the UK, two representative liberal welfare states who adopted highly dissimilar post-crisis social spending. The findings demonstrate that while political parties were not correlated with social spending during the pre-crisis period, after the global economic crisis they were significant in influencing social spending levels. This indicates an important shift in political dynamics across liberal welfare states over time that has not been fully accounted for by the existing literature.

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Partisan Governance, Women's Employment, and the Social Democratic Service State

Cited by 284 publications

References 32 publications

On the Compatibility of Islam and Gender Equality

On the Compatibility of Islam and Gender Equality

Reforming Welfare States

Political parties as drivers of post-crisis social spending in liberal welfare states

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