From Austerity to Permanent Strain? The European Union and Welfare State Reform in Italy and Spain
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23201682 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emmanuele Pavolini (0000-0002-3308-1551, University of Macerata), Margarita León (0000-0001-9457-5822, University of Macerata), Ana M Guillén (0000-0003-4425-7695, University of Macerata), Ugo Ascoli (University of Macerata) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Pages | 131-157 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Sovereign Debt Crisis, the EU and Welfare State Reform (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/978-1-137-58179-2_6 |
| OpenAlex | W2556968339 |
| ISBN | 9781137581792 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 17 |
This chapter makes a comparative analysis of the trajectories of welfare change in Italy and Spain since the outbreak of the financial crisis. We look at the differences in the types of institutional design to study welfare reform in these two countries and assess how recent changes have affected welfare state institutions. This chapter also assesses the level of the European Union (EU) involvement through formal instruments around the European Semester as well as by the means of agreements with the Troika and the European Central Bank (ECB). For this part of the analysis, three sets of documents have been used: Commission Recommendations and Council Decisions in relation to Excessive Deficit Procedures (EDP); Commission country-specific Recommendations based on Stability or Convergence Programmes, and Policy Measures to boost growth and jobs (National Reform Programmes). These documents allow an analysis of the contents of formal adjustment pressures. Other documents and sources (including newspaper articles) have also been analysed to look at the role of conditionality and ‘backroom’ diplomacy.
Austerity · Economic policy · Economics · European union · Political science · State (computer science) · Strain (injury) · Welfare · Welfare reform · Welfare state · Employment and Welfare Studies · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Medicine · Social Policy and Reform Studies
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| Unique citing works | 7 |
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| Citations per year | 0,88 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2022 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |