The Spanish Welfare State from Zapatero to Rajoy
Recalibration to Retrenchment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23203267 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eloísa Del Pino (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Pages | 197-216 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Politics and Society in Contemporary Spain (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan US (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/9781137306623_11 |
| OpenAlex | W2477823702 |
| ISBN | 9781137306623 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 15 |
The modernization and expansion of Spain’s welfare state were largely accomplishments of the Socialist Party (PSOE) governments under Prime Minister Felipe González between 1982 and 1996. However, during those years, social spending was also firmly kept in check by economic policy requirements (del Pino & Ramos 2009; Guillén 2010; Rodríguez-Cabrero 2011). This chapter demonstrates that this assertion is also true for the two terms of Socialist prime minister Rodríguez Zapatero (2004–11). I argue that Zapatero’s governments enacted some reform initiatives during his first term and the beginning of his second term aimed at modernizing and adapting the welfare state to the so-called new social risks (immigration, aging, changing family structure, new forms of poverty, among others), what in the comparative literature has been dubbed recalibration (Pierson 2001). However, due to the general change of policy direction in response to the economic and sovereign debt crises toward austerity and adjustment requirements, in the latter half of the second term the Socialist government was forced to undo some of these policies and enact measures that represented welfare state retrenchment.
Austerity · Development economics · Economic history · Economics · Modernization theory · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Retrenchment · State (computer science) · Welfare · Welfare state · Employment and Welfare Studies · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.8 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2023 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |