Are ‘carrots’ better than ‘sticks’? New EU conditionality and social investment policies in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy and Spain
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DOI: 10.1057/s41295-022-00281-w
Abstract: This article asks whether the novel EU approach to member states’ economic adjustment strategies constitutes a ‘social investment turn’ by the Italian and Spanish welfare states. The analytical framework combines insights from different strands of… read more here.
Keywords: better sticks; social investment; policy; investment ... See more keywords
Investing over the life course: The role of lifelong learning in a social investment strategy1
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DOI: 10.1080/02660830.2018.1550709
Abstract: Abstract In our contribution, we investigate the relationship between social investment (SI) and lifelong learning (LLL), discussing how LLL can be integrated theoretically within a SI approach, by focussing on the ideational principles and policy… read more here.
Keywords: social investment; investment; life course; role ... See more keywords
Impatient politics and social investment: the EU as ‘policy facilitator'
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DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2016.1189451
Abstract: ABSTRACT Reorienting the welfare state towards social investment (SI) constitutes a complex and multidimensional challenge of policy recalibration and raises daunting political problems. The temporal mismatch between SI reforms and their returns requires a degree… read more here.
Keywords: social investment; policy; politics social; impatient politics ... See more keywords
The future of the social investment state: politics, policies, and outcomes
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DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2017.1402944
Abstract: ABSTRACT In all advanced democracies, policies related to the welfare state are the largest part of public policy activity. Cross-pressured by globalization, deindustrialization, rising public debts, demographic changes, permanent austerity and the rise of 'new… read more here.
Keywords: social investment; investment state; state politics; investment ... See more keywords
Dynamic persistence in UK policy making: the evolution of social investment ideas and policy instruments
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DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2019.1699948
Abstract: ABSTRACT Proponents of policy instruments often have to justify them to shifting political masters. This article explores the evolution of social investment, both as a policy solution and a set of policy instruments, during a… read more here.
Keywords: evolution social; social investment; policy; policy instruments ... See more keywords
A longitudinal study of intergenerational transmission of poverty in Hong Kong across the 2010s: Social investment, homeownership and mother’s education
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DOI: 10.1177/00208728211065741
Abstract: This study examines the extent to which poverty is passed from parents to children in Hong Kong based on the social investment thesis. Through tracking the educational and career trajectories of the second generation (aged… read more here.
Keywords: hong kong; mother; poverty; study ... See more keywords
The social investment litmus test: Family formation, employment and poverty
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DOI: 10.1177/0958928720950627
Abstract: Over the past decade, the notion of ‘social investment’ (SI) has gained considerable traction in the political debates over welfare state futures. The multifaceted character of SI policy interventions, the effects of policy complementarities and… read more here.
Keywords: social investment; employment; term; family formation ... See more keywords
Who gets labour market training? Access biases of social investment in Finland
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DOI: 10.1177/09589287211066408
Abstract: Policy access biases worry social policy scholars because they generate Matthew effects that exacerbate socioeconomic divides. Yet, access biases in many social investment policies, like training during unemployment, remain under-researched. Such access biases may be… read more here.
Keywords: training access; access bias; access biases; social investment ... See more keywords
The constitutive effects of social investment evaluation
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DOI: 10.1177/1356389020969712
Abstract: Evaluation has different uses and impacts. This article aims to describe and analyse the constitutive effects – how evaluation forms and shapes different domains in an evaluation context – of evaluation related to an evidence-based… read more here.
Keywords: social investment; constitutive effects; evaluation; evaluation constitutive ... See more keywords
The marble cake of social services in Italy and Spain: Policy capacity, social investment, and the national recovery and resilience plans
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DOI: 10.1177/13882627231169266
Abstract: This article analyses the potential implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for the infrastructure of social services in Italy and Spain. Drawing from the policy capacity framework and focusing on childcare and elderly care, we investigate… read more here.
Keywords: policy capacity; social services; social investment;
The limits of social investment and the resilience of long-term care
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DOI: 10.1177/13882627231176134
Abstract: This article investigates the extent to which a social investment paradigm has guided policy reforms in long-term care for the elderly in France and the Netherlands and how this relates to the resilience of the… read more here.
Keywords: long term; term care; care; social investment ... See more keywords