Daniel Clegg
Biographic Data
| ID | 4159629 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Clegg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Clegg |
| SIGNATURE | CLEGG D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-6563-9605 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 126 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Social Policy Attitudes in the UK: Distinguishing Welfarism from Statism
The respective delivery roles of public and private providers is a key battleground in the ongoing transformation of welfare states. But despite a burgeoning literature on public attitudes to aspects of welfare state activity, delivery has to date received scant attention. This article makes a first step in addressing this knowledge gap. Drawing on original survey data from the United Kingdom, it analyses attitudes towards the delivery of social …
Policy, power and pandemic: Varieties of job and income protection responses to Covid-19 in Western Europe
What explains variation in governments’ policy choices to protect jobs and incomes at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in Western Europe? Departing from existing literature that emphasises path-dependency, this article proposes a dynamic model of policy-making in a major emergency. Building on the idea that governments face a trade-off between targeting and reversibility, the article develops a framework that accounts for both continuity and ch…
Unemployment benefit governance, trade unions and outsider protection in conservative welfare states
This article explores the relationship between trade union governance roles in unemployment benefit systems, their power resources and their capacity to counteract liberalising and dualising trends in the labour market in conservative welfare states with compulsory unemployment insurance. Against received wisdom, this article argues that in the 21st century trade unions in continental Europe have generally sought to combat the dualism to which th…
A more liberal France, a more social Europe? Macron, two-level reformism and the Covid-19 crisis
Less Dualisation, More Segmentation: France's Labour Market Model in the Early 21st Century
EnglishFrance has often been understood along with Germany as a paradigmatic case of dualisation, with competitiveness oriented producer group politics driving the step-wise restriction of social and employment protections to core workers, and encour-aging the tacit acceptance of more precarious employment conditions and worse social protection for a growing fringe of the workforce. This paper as-sesses this interpretation in the light of develop…
Comparative Social Policy Analysis and Active Labour Market Policy: Putting Quality before Quantity
In the past decade, active labour market policy (ALMP) has become a major topic in comparative social policy analysis, with scholars exploiting cross-national variation to seek to identify the determinants of policy development in this central area of the 'new welfare state'. In this paper, we argue that better integration of this policy field into social policy scholarship requires rather more critical engagement with considerable methodological…
Labor Market Policy
The Demise of Tax Credits
Introduced in the late 1990s, tax credits grew under successive Labour governments to become a cornerstone of UK social policy. Distinguished from traditional welfare policies by their target group and their mode of administration, and with goals that appeared capable of commanding support across the ideological spectrum, tax credits until recently seemed to hold the key to tackling poverty in a politically popular manner. But since 2010 the tax …
Themed section: Reforming minimum income protection in Europe
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Convergence from below? The reform of minimum income protection in France and the UK
Through a systematic comparison of major reforms to minimum income benefits for people of working age in France and the UK, this paper assesses the scope for cross-national convergence in this growing sector of European welfare states. It shows that while differing institutional legacies have shaped the precise design of the new minimum income systems that have been put in place on each side of the Channel in recent years, there is also evidence …
Solidarity or Dualization?: Social Governance, Union Preferences, and Unemployment Benefit Adjustment in Belgium and France
Despite being considered to have rather similar political economies, patterns of unemployment benefit adjustment were different in Belgium and France in the 1980s and 1990s. In France the unemployment insurance system retained generous earnings-related benefits but became increasingly exclusive, with many unemployed people thus being forced to rely on institutionally distinct second-tier benefit schemes. In Belgium, by contrast, unemployment prot…
European Labour Market Policies in (the) Crisis
France: Integration versus dualization
The chapter documents the conflict between two competing policy logics in recent French unemployment protection policy. Up until the 2000s, policy development followed a dualizing logic, reinforcing protection for those with longer work records prior to unemployment while relegating others to less generous alternative provisions. Driven by the gradual extension of an emphasis on activation that germinated on the social assistance margins of the u…
The transformation of unemployment protection in Europe
Revisiting some of the main findings, the concluding chapter maps the types and intensities of change within national unemployment protection systems and identifies a tentative grouping of countries in terms of the scale of ‘triple integration’ as outlined in the introductory chapter of this book. It subsequently addresses some of the reasons which help to account for the emergence of diverse policy profiles. It argues that even in countries wher…
Unemployment protection and labour market change in Europe: Towards ‘triple integration’?
The traditional European approach to unemployment protection developed in the context of industrial labour markets, and its key institutional features, ensured a relatively virtuous interaction between the social protection of workers and the promotion of conditions for successful industrial production. After discussing how this complementarity was challenged from the 1970s onwards by deep-seated changes in the profile and functioning of European…
Regulating the Risk of UnemploymentNational Adaptations to Post-Industrial Labour Markets in Europe: National adaptations to post-industrial labour markets in Europe
Regulating the Risk of Unemployment offers a systematic comparative analysis of the recent adaptation of European unemployment protection systems to increasingly post-industrial labour markets. These systems were mainly designed and institutionalized in predominantly industrial economies, characterized by relatively standardized employment relationships and stable career patterns, as well as plentiful employment opportunities even for those with …
Labour market policy in the crisis: The UK in comparative perspective
This article examines labour market policy measures adopted to counteract the effects of the current economic crisis, comparing the UK policy response to reactions of governments in other developed countries. It shows that, despite having entered the crisis with one of the least developed packages of policies to support unemployed people of any country, the UK has done unusually little to bolster provision in this field, despite the social and ec…
Continental Drift: On Unemployment Policy Change in Bismarckian Welfare States
This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Labour Market Transformations and Unemployment Policy Reform Agendas Shared Stasis and Divergent Dynamism: Perspectives on Unemployment Policy Reform in Continental Europe Unemployment Policy Change in Belgium, France, Germany and the Netherlands Discussion: Continental Drift Conclusions Notes References
Continental Drift: On Unemployment Policy Change in Bismarckian Welfare States
This article analyses the development of unemployment policies over the past 20 years in four continental European countries: Belgium, France, Germany and the Netherlands. It shows that, far from being as ‘frozen’ as many analysts have suggested, each of these Bismarckian welfare states has in fact seen considerable change in this policy sector in recent decades. In Belgium, France and Germany, significant changes in unemployment policy reforms h…
Beyond Activation Reforming European Unemployment Protection Systems in Post-Industrial Labour Markets
Though activation has been a key theme in recent comparative scholarship on social policy, existing research has arguably failed to capture some important cross-national differences in the extent of welfare state adaptation it entails. Conceptualising activation as but one unemployment policy reform indicator alongside ‘unemployment support homogenisation’ and ‘unemployment policy co-ordination’, and empirically sketching reform trends in four Eu…
Does the Third Way Work? The Left and Labour Market Policy Reform in Britain, France, and Germany
Identifies the main trends in family policy across European countries over the last decade or so and analyses how these developments are to be interpreted, especially in the context of what they reveal about how the Third Way approaches the family. Family policy, and more generally the relationship between the state and the family, is changing. Among the most notable changes are: a heightened interest on the part of the state in family solidarity…
Unemployment Protection and Labour Market Reform in France and Great Britain in the 1990s: Solidarity Versus Activation
Standard accounts of unemployment protection and labour market policy reform tend to put France and the UK at opposing ends of the spectrum of values and policy directions in Europe. British efforts in the 1990s of switching emphasis from 'passive' benefit payment towards promoting participation in 'active' programmes of labour market integration are widely understood as a product of liberalism, individualism and increasing labour market flexibil…
The Political Status of Social Assistance Benefits in European Welfare States: Lessons from Reforms to Provision for the Unemployed in France and Great Britain
Beyond Activation Reforming European Unemployment Protection Systems in Post-Industrial Labour Markets
Though activation has been a key theme in recent comparative scholarship on social policy, existing research has arguably failed to capture some important cross-national differences in the extent of welfare state adaptation it entails. Conceptualising activation as but one unemployment policy reform indicator alongside ‘unemployment support homogenisation’ and ‘unemployment policy co-ordination’, and empirically sketching reform trends in four Eu…
The Demise of Tax Credits
Introduced in the late 1990s, tax credits grew under successive Labour governments to become a cornerstone of UK social policy. Distinguished from traditional welfare policies by their target group and their mode of administration, and with goals that appeared capable of commanding support across the ideological spectrum, tax credits until recently seemed to hold the key to tackling poverty in a politically popular manner. But since 2010 the tax …
Comparative Social Policy Analysis and Active Labour Market Policy: Putting Quality before Quantity
In the past decade, active labour market policy (ALMP) has become a major topic in comparative social policy analysis, with scholars exploiting cross-national variation to seek to identify the determinants of policy development in this central area of the 'new welfare state'. In this paper, we argue that better integration of this policy field into social policy scholarship requires rather more critical engagement with considerable methodological…
Continental Drift: On Unemployment Policy Change in Bismarckian Welfare States
This article analyses the development of unemployment policies over the past 20 years in four continental European countries: Belgium, France, Germany and the Netherlands. It shows that, far from being as ‘frozen’ as many analysts have suggested, each of these Bismarckian welfare states has in fact seen considerable change in this policy sector in recent decades. In Belgium, France and Germany, significant changes in unemployment policy reforms h…
Convergence from below? The reform of minimum income protection in France and the UK
Through a systematic comparison of major reforms to minimum income benefits for people of working age in France and the UK, this paper assesses the scope for cross-national convergence in this growing sector of European welfare states. It shows that while differing institutional legacies have shaped the precise design of the new minimum income systems that have been put in place on each side of the Channel in recent years, there is also evidence …
A more liberal France, a more social Europe? Macron, two-level reformism and the Covid-19 crisis
Unemployment Protection and Labour Market Reform in France and Great Britain in the 1990s: Solidarity Versus Activation
Standard accounts of unemployment protection and labour market policy reform tend to put France and the UK at opposing ends of the spectrum of values and policy directions in Europe. British efforts in the 1990s of switching emphasis from 'passive' benefit payment towards promoting participation in 'active' programmes of labour market integration are widely understood as a product of liberalism, individualism and increasing labour market flexibil…
Policy, power and pandemic: Varieties of job and income protection responses to Covid-19 in Western Europe
What explains variation in governments’ policy choices to protect jobs and incomes at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in Western Europe? Departing from existing literature that emphasises path-dependency, this article proposes a dynamic model of policy-making in a major emergency. Building on the idea that governments face a trade-off between targeting and reversibility, the article develops a framework that accounts for both continuity and ch…
Labour market policy in the crisis: The UK in comparative perspective
This article examines labour market policy measures adopted to counteract the effects of the current economic crisis, comparing the UK policy response to reactions of governments in other developed countries. It shows that, despite having entered the crisis with one of the least developed packages of policies to support unemployed people of any country, the UK has done unusually little to bolster provision in this field, despite the social and ec…
The Political Status of Social Assistance Benefits in European Welfare States: Lessons from Reforms to Provision for the Unemployed in France and Great Britain
The Political Status of Social Assistance Benefits in European Welfare States: Lessons from Reforms to Provision for the Unemployed in France and Great Britain
Unemployment Protection and Labour Market Reform in France and Great Britain in the 1990s: Solidarity Versus Activation
Standard accounts of unemployment protection and labour market policy reform tend to put France and the UK at opposing ends of the spectrum of values and policy directions in Europe. British efforts in the 1990s of switching emphasis from 'passive' benefit payment towards promoting participation in 'active' programmes of labour market integration are widely understood as a product of liberalism, individualism and increasing labour market flexibil…
Does the Third Way Work? The Left and Labour Market Policy Reform in Britain, France, and Germany
Identifies the main trends in family policy across European countries over the last decade or so and analyses how these developments are to be interpreted, especially in the context of what they reveal about how the Third Way approaches the family. Family policy, and more generally the relationship between the state and the family, is changing. Among the most notable changes are: a heightened interest on the part of the state in family solidarity…
Beyond Activation Reforming European Unemployment Protection Systems in Post-Industrial Labour Markets
Though activation has been a key theme in recent comparative scholarship on social policy, existing research has arguably failed to capture some important cross-national differences in the extent of welfare state adaptation it entails. Conceptualising activation as but one unemployment policy reform indicator alongside ‘unemployment support homogenisation’ and ‘unemployment policy co-ordination’, and empirically sketching reform trends in four Eu…
Continental Drift: On Unemployment Policy Change in Bismarckian Welfare States
This article analyses the development of unemployment policies over the past 20 years in four continental European countries: Belgium, France, Germany and the Netherlands. It shows that, far from being as ‘frozen’ as many analysts have suggested, each of these Bismarckian welfare states has in fact seen considerable change in this policy sector in recent decades. In Belgium, France and Germany, significant changes in unemployment policy reforms h…
Continental Drift: On Unemployment Policy Change in Bismarckian Welfare States
This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Labour Market Transformations and Unemployment Policy Reform Agendas Shared Stasis and Divergent Dynamism: Perspectives on Unemployment Policy Reform in Continental Europe Unemployment Policy Change in Belgium, France, Germany and the Netherlands Discussion: Continental Drift Conclusions Notes References
Labour market policy in the crisis: The UK in comparative perspective
This article examines labour market policy measures adopted to counteract the effects of the current economic crisis, comparing the UK policy response to reactions of governments in other developed countries. It shows that, despite having entered the crisis with one of the least developed packages of policies to support unemployed people of any country, the UK has done unusually little to bolster provision in this field, despite the social and ec…
France: Integration versus dualization
The chapter documents the conflict between two competing policy logics in recent French unemployment protection policy. Up until the 2000s, policy development followed a dualizing logic, reinforcing protection for those with longer work records prior to unemployment while relegating others to less generous alternative provisions. Driven by the gradual extension of an emphasis on activation that germinated on the social assistance margins of the u…
The transformation of unemployment protection in Europe
Revisiting some of the main findings, the concluding chapter maps the types and intensities of change within national unemployment protection systems and identifies a tentative grouping of countries in terms of the scale of ‘triple integration’ as outlined in the introductory chapter of this book. It subsequently addresses some of the reasons which help to account for the emergence of diverse policy profiles. It argues that even in countries wher…
Unemployment protection and labour market change in Europe: Towards ‘triple integration’?
The traditional European approach to unemployment protection developed in the context of industrial labour markets, and its key institutional features, ensured a relatively virtuous interaction between the social protection of workers and the promotion of conditions for successful industrial production. After discussing how this complementarity was challenged from the 1970s onwards by deep-seated changes in the profile and functioning of European…
Regulating the Risk of UnemploymentNational Adaptations to Post-Industrial Labour Markets in Europe: National adaptations to post-industrial labour markets in Europe
Regulating the Risk of Unemployment offers a systematic comparative analysis of the recent adaptation of European unemployment protection systems to increasingly post-industrial labour markets. These systems were mainly designed and institutionalized in predominantly industrial economies, characterized by relatively standardized employment relationships and stable career patterns, as well as plentiful employment opportunities even for those with …
Solidarity or Dualization?: Social Governance, Union Preferences, and Unemployment Benefit Adjustment in Belgium and France
Despite being considered to have rather similar political economies, patterns of unemployment benefit adjustment were different in Belgium and France in the 1980s and 1990s. In France the unemployment insurance system retained generous earnings-related benefits but became increasingly exclusive, with many unemployed people thus being forced to rely on institutionally distinct second-tier benefit schemes. In Belgium, by contrast, unemployment prot…
European Labour Market Policies in (the) Crisis
Themed section: Reforming minimum income protection in Europe
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Convergence from below? The reform of minimum income protection in France and the UK
Through a systematic comparison of major reforms to minimum income benefits for people of working age in France and the UK, this paper assesses the scope for cross-national convergence in this growing sector of European welfare states. It shows that while differing institutional legacies have shaped the precise design of the new minimum income systems that have been put in place on each side of the Channel in recent years, there is also evidence …
Labor Market Policy
The Demise of Tax Credits
Introduced in the late 1990s, tax credits grew under successive Labour governments to become a cornerstone of UK social policy. Distinguished from traditional welfare policies by their target group and their mode of administration, and with goals that appeared capable of commanding support across the ideological spectrum, tax credits until recently seemed to hold the key to tackling poverty in a politically popular manner. But since 2010 the tax …
Comparative Social Policy Analysis and Active Labour Market Policy: Putting Quality before Quantity
In the past decade, active labour market policy (ALMP) has become a major topic in comparative social policy analysis, with scholars exploiting cross-national variation to seek to identify the determinants of policy development in this central area of the 'new welfare state'. In this paper, we argue that better integration of this policy field into social policy scholarship requires rather more critical engagement with considerable methodological…
Less Dualisation, More Segmentation: France's Labour Market Model in the Early 21st Century
EnglishFrance has often been understood along with Germany as a paradigmatic case of dualisation, with competitiveness oriented producer group politics driving the step-wise restriction of social and employment protections to core workers, and encour-aging the tacit acceptance of more precarious employment conditions and worse social protection for a growing fringe of the workforce. This paper as-sesses this interpretation in the light of develop…
Unemployment benefit governance, trade unions and outsider protection in conservative welfare states
This article explores the relationship between trade union governance roles in unemployment benefit systems, their power resources and their capacity to counteract liberalising and dualising trends in the labour market in conservative welfare states with compulsory unemployment insurance. Against received wisdom, this article argues that in the 21st century trade unions in continental Europe have generally sought to combat the dualism to which th…
A more liberal France, a more social Europe? Macron, two-level reformism and the Covid-19 crisis
Social Policy Attitudes in the UK: Distinguishing Welfarism from Statism
The respective delivery roles of public and private providers is a key battleground in the ongoing transformation of welfare states. But despite a burgeoning literature on public attitudes to aspects of welfare state activity, delivery has to date received scant attention. This article makes a first step in addressing this knowledge gap. Drawing on original survey data from the United Kingdom, it analyses attitudes towards the delivery of social …
Policy, power and pandemic: Varieties of job and income protection responses to Covid-19 in Western Europe
What explains variation in governments’ policy choices to protect jobs and incomes at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in Western Europe? Departing from existing literature that emphasises path-dependency, this article proposes a dynamic model of policy-making in a major emergency. Building on the idea that governments face a trade-off between targeting and reversibility, the article develops a framework that accounts for both continuity and ch…
Economics (22 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (22 works) · Political science (18 works) · Economic growth (14 works) · Politics (14 works) · Unemployment (13 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (11 works) · Labour economics (11 works) · Market economy (10 works) · Welfare state (9 works)