DIMENSIONS OF SOCIAL POLICY IN ELECTION PROGRAMS OF COALITION POLITICAL PARTIES IN SLOVAKIA

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Bocakova
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Political Parties

scholarly journals La renta básica universal y los Programas Electorales 2016 de los Partidos Políticos

2019 ◽  
pp. 237-255
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
General Election ◽  
The Political ◽  
Basic Income ◽  
Social Equality

Resumen: El trabajo se centra en una cuestión poco tratada, como es la renta básica universal y su relación con los actuales programas de los partidos políticos, con los que han concurrido a las elecciones generales, con una doble dimensión: a) lo que cada programa presenta y defiende acerca de esta renta o medidas similares (justificación, alcance y límites), y b) una vez esbozadas la idea y alcance de la renta en cada partido, el análisis comparativo de las diversas propuestas de los partidos, abundando en la cercanía o la distancia de tales propuestas con una renta básica universal Palabras clave:renta básica universal, rentas de solidaridad, políticas sociales, igualdad social, soluciones a la pobreza. Abstract: The work focuses on a little-treated issue, as it is the universal basic income and its relationship with existing programmes of the political parties, which have attended the general election, with a double dimension: (a) what each program presents and defends about this income or similar measures (justification, scope and limits), and b) once outlined the idea and scope of the income in each party, the comparative analysis of the various proposals of the parties, abounding in the closeness or distance of such proposals with a universal basic income. Keywords:universal basic income, income from solidarity, social policy, social equality, solutions to poverty.

Republicans and Democrats as Social Types: Or, Notes toward an Ethnography of the Political Parties

1986 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 341-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Byron E. Shafer
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
The Political ◽  
Racial Groups ◽  
Country Club

When you shake his hand, do you already know? Before you ask whether she has done anything political, can you guess in which party she would have done it? The political parties, even American political parties, are different. They offer different issue positions, on economic policy, on foreign policy, on social policy. They represent different interests as well, different classes, different regions, different ethnic and racial groups. Yet there is something else about these parties, something quite apart from issues and interests, which makes the direct observer believe that he can tell the Republicans from the Democrats, even when he is at the country club, or at the corner bar.

Political Parties and Social Policy

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey M. Stonecash
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Economic Policy ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Government Programs ◽  
Policy Goals ◽  
Party Control ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Over Time

Party battles for control of government are seen as efforts to reshape public policy. In prior decades, the impact of parties was limited by divided control of branches of government. The impact of party control was also limited because neither party had a distinctive constituency with clear and different policy goals. Over time, realignment has produced parties with very different electoral bases. Republicans now are more unified and willing to cut government while Democrats are more supportive of government programs. This chapter reviews our expectations of the impact of parties, the changes that have made party control mean more, and how these changes affect policy areas like economic policy, welfare, and health care.

Political Parties and Social Policy Responses to Global Economic Crises: Constrained Partisanship in Mature Welfare States

2014 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
PETER STARKE ◽  
ALEXANDRA KAASCH ◽  
FRANCA VAN HOOREN
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Policy Change ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Economic Crises ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
Party Composition ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Generous Welfare

AbstractBased on empirical findings from a comparative study on welfare state responses to the four major economic shocks (the 1970s oil shocks, the early 1990s recession, the 2008 financial crisis) in four OECD countries, this article demonstrates that, in contrast to conventional wisdom, policy responses to global economic crises vary significantly across countries. What explains the cross-national and within-case variation in responses to crises? We discuss several potential causes of this pattern and argue that political parties and the party composition of governments can play a key role in shaping crisis responses, albeit in ways that go beyond traditional partisan theory. We show that the partisan conflict and the impact of parties are conditioned by existing welfare state configurations. In less generous welfare states, the party composition of governments plays a decisive role in shaping the direction of social policy change. By contrast, in more generous welfare states, i.e., those with highly developed automatic stabilisers, the overall direction of policy change is regularly not subject to debate. Political conflict in these welfare states rather concerns the extent to which expansion or retrenchment is necessary. Therefore, a clear-cut partisan impact can often not be shown.

The Contemporary Politics of Health in Turkey

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Volkan Yılmaz
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Market Regulation ◽  
Policy Framing ◽  
Health Politics ◽  
Patient Organizations ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
The Government

This chapter offers a comprehensive analysis of recent patterns in health politics and policymaking in Turkey by focusing on nine dimensions of healthcare and public health. These dimensions range from physician politics, the politics of international policy expertise, business politics, the politics of medical humanitarianism, and patient politics to sexual and reproductive health politics, tobacco control politics, the politics of drug abuse, and the politics of the COVID-19. Based on this analysis, the chapter reaches three main conclusions. First, since the early 2000s, a new scene of health politics has begun to emerge in Turkey where both corporate actors and patient organizations are actively present alongside the government, political parties, and the Turkish Medical Association. Second, the framing of health in Turkish politics is no longer confined to social policy. The multiplication of references to health in various political discourses in economic growth, market regulation, population, family, and humanitarian policies in recent years has generated contested meanings and policy implications. Finally, an increasing number of democratic actors such as patient organizations, opposition political parties, and individual citizens are deploying public health and social policy frameworks about a diverse set of health issues in making rights claims. These efforts reflect continued popularity of the social policy framing of healthcare and signify democratization of health politics by turning health into a platform through which rights, entitlements, and the role of the state are negotiated.

KEMISKINAN PADA MASYARAKAT NELAYAN DI CILINCING

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-68
Author(s):  
Sidi Rana Menggala
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Organic Farming ◽  
Policy Formulation ◽  
Public Private Partnership ◽  
Sustainable Farming ◽  
Private Partnership

ABSTRACT The concept of community is a network, which not only consists of NGOs, but also whole elements of public private partnership, political parties, and other social volunteers. This network works hand by hand to set and enhance a partnership and public participation towards pro-social policy formulation. Social capital is strengthened by moral supports from public elements (governance actors) which aims to attain social developments, one of them is a concept of Sustainable Farming, which is Organic Farming. Keywords: Social Capital, Sustainable Farming ABSTRAK Konsep masyarakat merupakan sebuah jejaring (network) yang tidak hanya terdiri LSM, namun melibatkan segenap elemen dari pemerintah, perusahaan, partai politik hingga relewan-relawan pekerja sosial. Jejaring ini bergerak secara bersamaan dan berupaya menerapkan melalui proses keterlibatan dan partisipasi penduduk hingga akhirnya melahirkan kebijakan-kebijakan yang ro-sosial. Kapital sosial diperkuat dukungan moral dari segenap elemen penduduk dengan tujuan pembangunan sosial. Salah satu wujudnya adalah melalui konsep Pertanian Berkelanjutan, yakni pertanian organik. Kata-Kata Kunci: Kapital Sosial, Pertanian Berkelanjutan

Religione, valori e welfare state: il caso italiano

2013 ◽  
pp. 45-73
Author(s):  
Ivo Colozzi
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Religious Culture ◽  
Italian Population ◽  
Social Doctrine ◽  
The Social

The article aims to analyze which aspects of the Italian welfare system are influenced (shaped) by the dominant religious culture, i.e. Catholicism. It also investigates whether the mechanism through which this influence has been able to shape the social legislation is represented by religion-inspired political parties or by the capacity of the religious culture to directly influence the value system of the majority of the Italian population. In the latter case even lay political parties and governments did contribute to implement in their social policy choices orientations referable to the dominant religious culture. Our argument unfolds through the following steps: 1) a short reconstruction of the Italian welfare state model; 2) an outline of the main principles of the Social Doctrine of the Catholic Church on welfare issues and social policy topics; 3) an account of the prevailing values on social issues according the Italian population; 4) an evaluation of how much both the principles and the values are incorporated in the present Italian welfare state system; 5) some final remarks on the mechanism through which the Italian Catholic Church has contributed to determine the social protection system.

Political Parties and Pension Generosity in Times of Permanent Austerity

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 291-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reimut Zohlnhöfer ◽  
Frieder Wolf ◽  
Georg Wenzelburger
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
The Other ◽  
Replacement Rate ◽  
Sickness Benefits ◽  
The One ◽  
Double Deficit

AbstractThe quantitative strand of social policy research suffers from a double deficit: on the one hand, analyses of aggregate expenditure dominate, and on the other hand, most studies of replacement rates focus on unemployment or sickness benefits, while pensions are excluded. This paper addresses the said deficit firstly by discussing the pension sectors’ theoretical peculiarities and by proposing two hypotheses: one on the retrenchment of pension replacement rates and one on the role played by political parties in implementing it. Secondly, after a brief literature review and an outline of our methodological approach, we present regression results of replacement rate changes in 18 developed democracies. Our findings show considerably smaller cuts of pensions than of unemployment or sickness benefits, and striking differences regarding partisan effects between the sectors.

Governance in Contemporary Germany: The Semisovereign State Revisited

2007 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 560-561
Author(s):  
Sabina Stiller
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Original Study ◽  
Administrative Reform ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Eu Integration ◽  
Original Argument

Governance in Contemporary Germany: The Semisovereign State Revisited, Simon Green and William E. Paterson, eds., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005, pp. 338.Nearly twenty years after Katzenstein's diagnosis of the German polity as “semisovereign state,” this volume re-evaluates unified Germany in the light of the original study. It starts with a concise introduction by the editors to the original argument and to the challenges of unification to semisovereign governance. Then, eleven contributions cover Katzenstein's “policy nodes” (political parties, federalism, and parapublic institutions), developments in previously covered policy areas (economic and social policy, industrial relations, immigration, administrative reform) and two additional ones: the environment and EU integration. The volume is concluded by Katzenstein himself, arguing that despite many political and socio-economic changes, semisovereignty still reigns in Germany.

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