The Politics of Unpopular Policies: Enacting the Anti-Welfare State Agenda
4РП — Обучение и мобилност на изследователи
- Период
- 1998-09-01 → 1999-08-31
- Финансиране от ЕС
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- Участници
- 1
- Схема
- RGI
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Накратко на български
Политическите механизми при съкращаване на социалните разходи, като например намаляване на помощите за определени групи хора, са в центъра на анализа. Това помага да се разбере защо някои правителства успяват да проведат непопулярни реформи, а други не.
Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.
Цел на проекта
Research objectives and contentBy offering an anti-state solution to the governing crisis of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Political leaders constructed an agenda o hose success ultimate depended upon the implementation of unwelcome measures. The eulogy of less government boiled down to the penance of specific cuts placed upon specific constituencies. Yet we know relatively little out the incentives and disincentives leaders possess to impose pain. By extension, we know remarkably little about what factors differentiate governments in terms of their success in the area of welfare retrenchment. What is increasingly clear is that the commitment to pursue unpopular policies is not a sufficient condition for loss imposition. The limited penetration of the anti-state agenda is severely under-explained in terms of the tactical options used is rightist governments. Indeed, there is a distinct theoretical void concerning the incentives and disincentives leaders possess to impose pain in politically salient areas. Virtually all our theorising is predicated on leaders doing more not less. It is increasingly clear, however, that the two processes are far from identical. This research project seeks to investigate the factors that constrain and facilitate leaders across advanced industrial democracies in their welfare retrenchment efforts.Aside from the use of low profile policy methods. There appear to be two overarching mechanisms affecting leadership options in this respect: institutions and partisan issue associations. Pre-existing policy-structures and institutions affect leaders capacity to hide the condition whether low-risk strategies are available to leaders.Partisan issue-associations condition both their capacity to hide and their need to do so. The thesis guiding this project is that the political aspects of retrenchment have been both marginalized and, to a large extent, oversimplified.Training content (objective, benefit and expected impact)Links with industry / industrial relevance (22)
Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).
Участници
- Istituto Universitario Europeo · Fiesole FirenzeКоординаторИталия
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Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз