Determinants of a Silent (R)evolution: Understanding the Expansion of Family Policy in Rich OECD Countries
By Emanuele Ferragina, M. Seeleib-Kaiser. 2013
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This paper contributes to the comparative social policy literature in two ways. First, we use multiple correspondence analysis in order to assess the different directions and the degree of (employment-oriented) family policy change over the past three decades in 18 rich Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries. Second, we perform a series of correlations to identify the core drivers of these developments. Our main findings—based on five international datasets—are: (i) we have been witnesses of a significant expansion of family policies over the past three decades in almost all countries analysed, although the degree of change (distinguished by first-, second- and third-order change) differs across the OECD area; and (ii) whilst in the 1980s and 1990s social democracy and organised women were key drivers of family policy expansion, during the 2000s public opinion, that increasingly seems to support a “modernised” family lifestyle in which mothers are employed, seems to have played an essential role in explaining policy change.
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- The Quiet Paradigm Revolution of Social Investment (2015, background): “…regulation and social assistance provision have become more liberal, triggering high levels of poverty among the unemployed, but that in the area of family policy, the German policy mix has moved decisively in the direction of Scandinavian social investment (Ferragina and Seeleib-Kaiser 2015).”
- Varieties of familialism: Comparing four southern European and East Asian welfare regimes (2016, background): “Using a dynamic perspective, in their analysis of changes in the child-related family policy in rich OECD countries from the 1990s to the 2000s, Ferragina and Seeleib-Kaiser (2014) suggested that the present similarities between Italy and Japan (Spain and Korea unfortunately were not included in…”