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Articles de revues sur le sujet "Public welfare – Spain"

María, G. A. « Public perception of farm animal welfare in Spain ». Livestock Science 103, n^o 3 (septembre 2006) : 250–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.livsci.2006.05.011.

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Bernardi, Luca, et James Adams. « Does Government Support Respond to Governments’ Social Welfare Rhetoric or their Spending ? An Analysis of Government Support in Britain, Spain and the United States ». British Journal of Political Science 49, n^o 4 (8 novembre 2017) : 1407–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007123417000199.

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Issue ownership theory posits that when social welfare is electorally salient, left-wing parties gain public support by rhetorically emphasizing social welfare issues. There is less research, however, on whether left-wing governing parties benefit from increasing social welfare spending. That is, it is not known whether leftist governments gain from acting on the issues they rhetorically emphasize. This article presents arguments that voters will not react to governments’ social welfare rhetoric, and reviews the conflicting arguments about how government support responds to social welfare spending. It then reports time-series, cross-sectional analyses of data on government support, governments’ social welfare rhetoric and social welfare spending from Britain, Spain and the United States, that support the prediction that government rhetoric has no effects. The article estimates, however, that increased social welfare spending sharply depresses support for both left- and right-wing governments. These findings highlight a strategic dilemma for left-wing governments, which lose public support when they act on their social welfare rhetoric by increasing welfare spending.

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Mahía Casado, Ramón, et Rafael De Arce Borda. « Inmigration and the public economy : prejudices, myths and misperceptions of the spanish case ». Revista CENTRA de Ciencias Sociales 1, n^o 2 (9 décembre 2022) : 53–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.54790/rccs.22.

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It is twenty years since the beginning in Spain of an immigration cycle without precedent in the international migration scenario. After receiving more than 6 million new citizens continuously throughout a cycle of growth, crisis and economic recovery, the article makes an exhaustive analysis of the connection between immigration and the public economy in Spain. It analyses in detail the empirical evidence which makes it possible to disprove the usual prejudices, myths and misperceptions about immigration and the public economy. The analysis of a specific context such as that of Spain allows for a detailed quantification of the non-specific and aggregated findings shown in the literature on immigration and the public economy. The article shows evidence that refutes the so-called welfare magnet, accurately reveals the scant impact of immigration on public spending, quantifies the essential contribution to tax collection and rejects its negative net fiscal impact.

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Arrieta, Felix, Ainhoa Izaguirre et Martín Zuñiga. « Is the third sector an extension of public administration ? Reflections on the Gipuzkoan case ». Voluntary Sector Review 11, n^o 3 (1 novembre 2020) : 359–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/204674320x15867123016660.

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The role of the third sector in the provision of welfare and its relationship with public administration have been gaining importance in political debates because of the difficulties that welfare states have in responding to emerging social needs. The ‘Gipuzkoan model’, based on a public‐private collaboration between third sector organisations and the public administration in Gipuzkoa in the Basque Country in Spain, has been drawing attention over the past 40 years. However, there is a debate concerning the role that each actor should play in the implementation of welfare policies. This article analyses, from a qualitative point of view, the role of the third sector in designing and providing public policy tools for the region within the context promoted by the Gipuzkoan model of public‐private collaboration. The results obtained illustrate a multifaceted scenario in which different visions converge around the same question: How should this collaboration be developed and what future awaits the third sector?

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Janus, Edyta, Raquel Cantero Téllez, Katarzyna Filar-Mierzwa, Paulina Aleksander-Szymanowicz et Aneta Bac. « Psychosocial and Health Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic Experienced by Staff Employed in Social Welfare Facilities in Poland and Spain ». International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 20, n^o 4 (14 février 2023) : 3336. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20043336.

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The COVID-19 pandemic had a very significant negative impact on the physical and mental health of various professional groups. Therefore, the aim of this study was to assess the psychosocial and health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic experienced by staff employed in social welfare institutions in Poland and Spain. The study involved 407 people, including 207 from Poland and 200 from Spain (346 women and 61 men), working in social care facilities. The research tool was the authors’ questionnaire consisting of 23 closed-ended, single- or multiple-choice questions. The study has indicated that the COVID-19 pandemic had negative health and psychosocial effects on employees of social welfare facilities. In addition, it has been shown that the severity of the psychosocial and health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic differed between the countries studied. Employees from Spain statistically significantly more often declared deterioration in most of the surveyed indicators, except for mood deterioration, which was experienced more by employees from Poland than their peers from Spain.

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Ares, Cristina, et Antón Losada. « Political Parties’ Preferences about the Volume of Social Spending and its Distribution between Programs and Age Groups : a Comparative Study of France, Spain and the UK ». Cuadernos de Gobierno y Administración Pública 7, n^o 2 (10 novembre 2020) : 85–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.5209/cgap.68179.

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The transformation of the Welfare State is not a standardized response to globalization or a by-product of European Union policies, but rather ‘what parties make of it’ (Burgoon, 2006). Different welfare regimes and welfare cultures contribute to the maintenance of diverse national responses to global and regional integration in terms of their public welfare systems, but there are also meso-level variables, such as parties´ ideologies, that may have an impact on the volume and distribution of welfare expenditure. This article presents a new scheme and procedure to code party manifesto statements in favor of social spending and retrenchment; it applies them in Britain, France and Spain in order to show the possibilities of the new data. The preliminary results indicate that ideologies are linked to parties´ preferences regarding the distribution of social spending between programs, the emphasis on different age groups as beneficiaries of welfare expenditure, and the rationale for social cuts.

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Boto, Alejandra. « Unsolved Questions Regarding EU Citizens Access to Public Healthcare Services in Spain ». Central European Public Administration Review 13, n^o 2 (20 juin 2015) : 87–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.17573/ipar.2015.2.04.

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Spain is nowadays living the echoes of economic crisis adopting measures to boost employment figures and to correct the excessive macroeconomic imbalances. This paper reviews previous research findings on how these policies affect European citizenship and the access to welfare systems, healthcare provision in particular.Special attention is paid to the so-called “medical tourism” and to the transposition on Directive 2011/24 into national law. The challenges and transformations that the adequate provision of healthcare for EU citizens will require in the next future are also pointed out, notwithstanding some critical legal problems unsolved till the moment.However, as the paper is aimed at underlining, the main barriers that still exist to exercise citizenship right to health protection within EU are not legal, but practical.

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Martínez Buján, Raquel. « Migration, Domestic Care Work and Public Policies on Long-Term Care in Spain ». REMHU : Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana 30, n^o 65 (août 2022) : 73–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1980-85852503880006506.

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Abstract: This article explores the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the labour conditions of migrant workers who provide care to elderly and dependent persons in Spain. Using data from the Active Population Survey, we analyse the effects of the health crisis on the precariousness of this labour sector (measured through unemployment, underemployment and temporary employment). The figures shed light on the degradation of working conditions during the health crisis, the situation of social vulnerability experienced by female workers and the absence of effective policy responses to reverse this inequality during the pandemic. This situation of subordination is structured around the connection between the demand for care workers in private homes and the philosophy behind the public welfare system. Special emphasis is given to the effect of cash transfer programs in the process of the commodification of care.

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Strawczynski, Michel, et Oren Tirosh. « Government Welfare Policy Under a Skilled-Biased Technological Change ». Public Finance Review 50, n^o 5 (septembre 2022) : 515–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10911421221117713.

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In a world where machines replace unskilled work, an active labor market policy—represented by the combination of an optimal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and income maintenance for the unemployed—provides incentives to increase participation in the labor market and depresses wages for unskilled employees. In this paper, this policy is tested against the alternative of allowing unskilled workers to receive a means-tested basic income (MTBI), as recently adopted by Spain. For a liberal social planner (i.e., includes consumption and leisure in individual utility), the MTBI dominates the active labor market policy. For a conservative social planner (i.e., evaluates social welfare based on individual utility from consumption), the active labor market policy dominates the MTBI. The potential dynamic effects of active labor policy on labor supply were considered in a simulation using updated empirical estimates; it shows that this policy becomes preferable for both types of the social planner.

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Barceló, Joan, et Greg Chih-Hsin Sheen. « Voluntary adoption of social welfare-enhancing behavior : Mask-wearing in Spain during the COVID-19 outbreak ». PLOS ONE 15, n^o 12 (1 décembre 2020) : e0242764. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242764.

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With the spread of COVID-19, more countries now recommend their citizens to wear facemasks in public. The uptake of facemasks, however, remains far from universal in countries where this practice lacks cultural roots. In this paper, we aim to identify the barriers to mask-wearing in Spain, a country with no mask-wearing culture. We conduct one of the first nationally representative surveys (n = 4,000) about this unprecedented public health emergency and identify the profile of citizens who are more resistant to face-masking: young, educated, unconcerned with being infected, and with an introverted personality. Our results further indicate a positive correlation between a social norm of mask-wearing and mask uptake and demonstrate that uptake of facemasks is especially high among the elderly living in localities where mask-wearing behavior is popular. These results are robust when controlling for respondents’ demographics, time spent at home, and occupation fixed effects. Our findings can be useful for policymakers to devise effective programs for improving public compliance.

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Thèses sur le sujet "Public welfare – Spain"

VAMPA, Davide. « The regional politics of welfare in Italy, Spain, and Great Britain : assessing the impact of territorial and left-wing mobilisations on the development of 'sub-state' social systems ». Doctoral thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/37642.

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Defence date: 30 September 2015
Examining Board: Professor Stefano Bartolini, EUI (Supervisor); Professor László Bruszt, EUI; Professor Maurizio Ferrera, Università degli Studi di Milano; Professor Jonathan Hopkin, London School of Economics and Political Science.
In recent years, a number of European countries have undergone important processes of territorial reconfiguration in the administration and delivery of social services. This has produced substantial divergences in the levels and types of welfare development across regions belonging to the same country. As a result, it has become increasingly difficult to talk about 'national welfare systems' or 'national social models' – although most of the mainstream welfare literature continues to do so. The aim of this study is to explore the political factors that explain cross-regional variation in the development of health care and social assistance policies in three countries that have witnessed the gradual strengthening of regions as arenas of social policy making: Italy, Spain and Great Britain. The research focus is on the effects of two political cleavages, centre-periphery and left-right, on sub-national social policy. The findings of the quantitative and qualitative analyses presented throughout this research suggest that the main driving force in the construction of sub-state welfare systems is the political mobilisation of territorial identities through the creation and electoral consolidation of regionalist parties. Indeed, such parties may use regional social policy to reinforce the sense of distinctiveness and territorial solidarity that exists in the communities they represent, thus further strengthening and legitimising their political role. Additionally, the centre-periphery cleavage may also affect relations across different organisational levels of 'statewide' parties and further increase the relevance of territoriality in welfare politics at the regional level. On the other hand, traditional left-right politics does not seem to play the central role that welfare theories focusing on 'nation-states' might lead us to expect. For left-wing parties, the regionalisation of social governance may present either an opportunity or a challenge depending on the role they play in national politics and on the characteristics of sub-national electoral competitors. Generally, mainstream centre-left parties are torn by the dilemma of maintaining uniformity and cohesion in social protection across the national territory and addressing the demands for more extensive and distinctive social services coming from specific regional communities.

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Di, Hsin-Yi, et 邸馨儀. « Welfare Reform in New Social Risks : the Example of Public Pension System in Spain ». Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/47407577456132694168.

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In December, 2009, one of of the three biggest global credit agency Fitch Ratings downgraded Greece''s sovereign credit rating, and broke out sovereign debt crisis in EU countries, the government of Portugal, Italy and Spain have problems with debt crisis resurfacing as well. The debt crisis continues to expand and become the biggest challenge to the Eurozone. The international community and the markets worries that Spain may be the next need a bailout, as a result of 2010 deficit accounted for 9.8% of GDP, Housing Bubble and the financial situation seem to keep on going down. Spain’s government proposed fiscal reform plan actively in 2011, including the reform of pension is the most important measures to reduce government expenditures. The public pension system is a part of the social security and social policy that use of the principle of sharing the risk to fight the certain or uncertain risk may be caused income interruption by an accident. To protect the safety of the people''s economic life. Pension system provided long-term economic pillar by the Government for the majority of people, is also an important measure to protect economic security of people. However, with the impact of globalization and social change, an aging population, high unemployment, a serious imbalance proportion of the population, the rapid decline of the traditional family care and economic deterioration against defects and sustainability of the current pension system in Spain, also led to new social risks and the Spain’s government must reforme the pension system that strengthen financial stability become one of the most urgent issue. The reform of the pension system is related to the people’s benefit, Spain’s government has to give consideration to the budget cut and the public opinion, however, how to plan on reform policy which not only makes people satisfy but also makes up the budget deficit test the wisdom of the ruling party indeed. Since the 1990s, the welfare state crisis has been a global issue, in addition to the crisis caused by the original system, policy scholars such as Taylor-Gooby who began to present the risk environment faced by the policy considerations expressed to discuss social policy in the typical post-industrial society as "New Social Risks" or "New Risk". For this reason, this study focuses on understanding the design of the Spanish public pension system, not only the crisis caused by the old system but also faced the new social risks and challenges, and the effects of the reform.

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Livres sur le sujet "Public welfare – Spain"

Melvyn, Peter. Information systems and social welfare policies : Madrid, Spain, May 28-June 1, 1988 : report. Vienna : European Centre, 1989.

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No sólo se indignen : Propuestas para un Estado de bienestar sostenible. Barcelona : Plataforma, 2011.

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Catalonia (Spain). Departament de Benestar Social. Informe de les actuacions realitzades : Juliol 1988-juny 1989. [Barcelona] : Generalitat de Catalunya, Departament de Benestar Social, 1989.

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Maurizio, Ferrera, dir. Welfare state reform in Southern Europe : Fighting poverty and social exclusion in Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Greece. New York, NY : Routledge, 2005.

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El desarrollo del Estado social en la década de los noventa : Políticas sociales en un contexto de fuerte crisis económica. Madrid : Congreso de los Diputados, 2011.

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Medicine, government, and public health in Philip II's Spain : Shared interest, competing authorities. Burlington, Vt : Ashgate, 2011.

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Jorge, Garcés Ferrer, et Martínez Román Ma Asunción, dir. Bienestar social y necesidades especiales. Valencia : Tirant lo Blanch, 1996.

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García-Hourcade, José Jesús. Beneficencia y sanidad en el siglo XVIII : El hospital de San Juan de Dios de Murcia. Murcia : Universidad de Murcia, 1996.

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Dual nationality in the European Union : A study on changing norms in public and private international law and in the municipal laws of four EU member states. Leiden : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2012.

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E, McDowell Eugene, dir. Suicide across the life span : Premature exits. 2^e éd. Washington, D.C : Taylor & Francis, 1996.

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Chapitres de livres sur le sujet "Public welfare – Spain"

Schweitzer, Reinhard. « Introduction ». Dans IMISCOE Research Series, 1–7. Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91731-9_1.

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AbstractWhat happens in institutions like schools or hospitals when local service provision overlaps with the control of national borders? Such overlap is unavoidable if unlawful residents are to be excluded from mainstream public services. With this explicit aim, governments not only modify the rules and established practices of welfare provision, but also encourage the people who administer and deliver these services to incorporate the logic of immigration control into their everyday work. To identify and better understand the concrete mechanisms that either help or hinder such internalisation of immigration control, this study systematically compares three spheres of service provision – healthcare, education and social assistance – across two distinctive legal-political environments: Barcelona/Spain and London/UK. Looking at official policies as well as their implementation, it primarily draws on a total of almost 90 semi-structured interviews with irregular residents, providers and administrators of local services, and representatives of NGOs and local government. Its innovative analytical framework helps to map and explain the significant variation in how immigration control works within different institutions and how individual actors occupying key positions in these can reproduce, contest, or readjust formal structures of inclusion and exclusion.

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« Spain : Welfare State ». Dans Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, Third Edition, 1–6. Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1081/e-epap3-120053267.

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Powell, Fred. « The welfare state debate ». Dans The Political Economy of the Irish Welfare State. Policy Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447332916.003.0006.

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This chapter analyses the post-war evolution of a welfare state in Ireland. It explores the tension between traditionalist influences (clientelism, localism, and religion) and the modernising forces of social democracy that were reshaping civic culture and the idea of citizenship into what T. H. Marshall (1950) has called a ‘three-legged stool’ of civil rights, political rights, and social rights. The Irish welfare state is often categorised as belonging to the Anglo-Saxon model. However, Ireland's ideological orientation (driven by Catholic social teaching in the form of the principle of subsidiarity) and an informal Church–State alliance suggests the Irish welfare state had more in common with the Mediterranean countries (Spain, Portugal, Italy), Nonetheless, a shared language and popular culture did influence the public imaginary concept of the ideal of a welfare state and similarly shape public demands for higher levels of social expenditure.

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Noferini, Andrea, et David Sancho. « Policy analysis and regional governments ». Dans Policy Analysis in Spain, 83–101. Policy Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447353744.003.0005.

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As democratically elected institutions responsible for nearly half of total public expenditure, Spanish regional governments participate in the policy analysis process and generate their own information and technical knowledge about policy problems. In this chapter, we focus on Spanish regional governments as policy analysts in a context of increasing state intervention, greater decentralization and growing policy complexity. The chapter analyses this greater demand for policy analysis at the regional level in the light of the territorial distribution of powers between the center and the periphery; the historical and administrative legacy of the Spanish administrative system; the role of regional government in some basic policy areas of welfare, and the localization of the 2030 Agenda in two regions: Catalonia and the Basque Countries.

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Cairney, Paul, Michael Keating, Sean Kippin et Emily St Denny. « Inequalities Policies in Practice ». Dans Public Policy to Reduce Inequalities across Europe, 71–85. Oxford University PressOxford, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192898586.003.0005.

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Abstract This chapter explores the scope for regional (or meso-level, sub-state) policymakers to redesign policy, and pursue differing priorities, within national systems of social welfare. Regional levels of government have increased powers to address inequalities, but their role is contested. There is no such thing as a typical division of responsibilities or one best way to address inequalities. Rather, we use examples from four countries—Belgium, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom—to explore how different regional-level governments make sense of inequalities policies. Examples include taxation and spending, social assistance, public service subsidies, minimum income guarantees, and charged, active labour market policies. From the available evidence, it would be an exaggeration to speak of distinct regional welfare regimes.

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Castiñeira, Sergio Sánchez. « Social workers implementing social assistance in Spain : reshaping poverty in a familialistic welfare state ». Dans Social Work and the Making of Social Policy, 169–84. Policy Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447349150.003.0011.

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This case study analyses some of the processes that are restructuring public social assistance in the inequality regime that emerges from the recent economic recession in Spain. It shows how social workers turn what could be an inefficient public program into an active social policy through a cognitive, normative and emotional approach. A highly qualified and vocational workforce compensates meagre institutional support and lack of opportunities by instilling in the new poor new knowledge, abilities and attitudes to access basic informal resources from the local context. However, social workers’ agency could eventually contribute to confine clients within the material and symbolic limits of an expanding grey zone with scarce opportunities and diminished well-being, between inclusion and exclusion. This research is based on semi-structured interviews (17) and focus groups (8).

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Whiteside, Heather, Stephen McBride et Bryan M. Evans. « Introduction : Varieties of Austerity ». Dans Varieties of Austerity, 1–28. Policy Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781529212242.003.0001.

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This introductory chapter considers the history and extent of austerity measures used globally since 2008. It examines the common thread of these austerity measures, before turning to explore the issue of how much variety there has been within this common framework. To assist with this, the chapter briefly presents a selection of national cases — Canada, Denmark, Ireland, and Spain. These countries are differently situated within the main typologies of comparative public policy and political economy that categorize countries by type of welfare state and variety of capitalism. The comparative political economy of welfare states and types of economy has yielded two major classification systems. The most famous welfare state typology identified three types — liberal, social democratic, and conservative/corporatist — and advanced explanations for their development and characteristics. The chapter considers how these nations fit into these typologies and how they present varieties of austerity.

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