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The Regional Politics of Welfare in Italy, Spain and Great Britain [electronic resource]

Vampa, Davide.
2016
JA1-92
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Title
The Regional Politics of Welfare in Italy, Spain and Great Britain [electronic resource]
Author
Vampa, Davide.
ISBN
9783319390079
3319390074
3319390066
9783319390062
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39007-9
Published
Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (272 pages).
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-39007-9 doi
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JA1-92
Dewey Decimal Classification
320
Summary
This book is a study of the increasing territorial variations in the development of sub-national welfare systems that have occurred as an effect of the decentralization of health care and social assistance policies in Italy, Spain and Great Britain. The author examines the political factors that underlie these variations by combining cross-regional and cross-country comparisons using mixed methods. Vampa main finding is that regionalist parties have played a key role in sub-national welfare building and have used social policy to strengthen their legitimacy in the political struggle against central authorities. In this context, functional political competition between Left and Right has been partly replaced by territorial competition between Centre and Periphery as the main determinant of social policy making. Additionally, mainstream left-wing parties have been torn between maintaining territorial uniformity in social protection and responding to demands for more extensive social services tailored to the needs and preferences of specific regional communities. This book will be of use to academics and policy makers interested in political economy, devolution/decentralisation, welfare, and party politics.
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Measuring Regional Welfare Development: Relying on€Country-Specific Indicators to€Assess Within-UCountry, Cross-Regional Variation.
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Comparative territorial politics.
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Preface and Acknowledgements; Contents; About the Author; List of Acronyms; List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1: Introduction; Note; chapter 2: Adding a Territorial Perspective to the Study of Welfare Politics: Theories, Hypotheses and Case Studies; The Transformation of European Welfare Systems; Theoretical Framework; The Dependent Variable: Development of Regional Welfare System; The Impact of Territorial Mobilisation on the Level of Sub-state Welfare Development; The Left and the Challenge of Regionalism: A New Arena of Welfare Development?

Other Region-Specific Control Variables That May Affect Sub- national Welfare BuildingCase Selection; Similarities; Differences; Combining Quantitative and€Qualitative Analyses; Addendum: Other Social Policies, the€EU and€the€Process of€Region-Building; Beyond Social Assistance and€Health Care; The EU and€Regional Welfare Systems; Not Only 'Structuring' but Also 'Closure': The€Process of€Region Building; Notes; Chapter 3: Territorial Mobilisation and€Left-Wing Partisanship: The€Two (Parallel) Paths to Welfare Building in€the€Italian Regions; Introduction.

Transformations and€Territorialisation of€the€Italian Welfare StateWhen Regions Become Arenas of€'New Welfare Building': Measuring Territorial Differences in€Italy; Territorial Mobilisation in€Italy Since 1980; Left-Wing Mobilisation in€Italy Since 1980; Background Variables: Socio-economic Development, Ageing (Demographic Vulnerability) and€Population Size; Building the€Multivariate Model; Beyond Health Care and€Social Assistance: Labour Market Policies, A€Preliminary Analysis; Conclusion; Notes.

Chapter 4: The (Re)emergence and€Strengthening of€the€Centre-Periphery Cleavage in€Italy: (Old and€New) Regionalist Parties and Sub-Ustate Welfare BuildingOld and€New Regionalist Parties and€the€Increasing Saliency of€the€'Decentralisation' Issue in€Italian Politics; Old and€New Regionalist Parties in€Italy; An Example of€an€'Alpine' Regionalist Party: The€SVP and€the€Construction of€a€South Tyrolean Welfare System; Lombardy: The€Epicentre of€the€'Regionalist Earthquake' in€the€Late 1980s; The Venetian Puzzle; Conclusion; Notes.

Chapter 5: The Italian Left: Between National Weakness and€Regional Policy ExperimentationThe Italian Left: Past and€Present; The PCI/PDS/DS/PD and€Territorial Politics; Attitudes Towards Decentralisation and€Regionalism; The Territorial Organisation of€the€Party; A Regionally Concentrated Electoral Support: The€Red Belt; The 'Red Belt': Social Democracy at the€Local Level?; Conclusion; Notes; chapter 6: Spain: Finding a€Balance Between Territorial Equality and€Strong Regional Identities; Transformations and€Territorialisation of€the€Spanish Welfare State.

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