‘Social Investment’ or Back to ‘Familism’: The Impact of the Economic Crisis on Family and Care Policies in Italy and Spain
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- 3 July 2014
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in South European Society and Politics
- Vol. 19 (3), 353-369
- https://doi.org/10.1080/13608746.2014.948603
Abstract
Family policies have traditionally been weak in Southern Europe. In the last two decades, however, and following a ‘catching up’ course, Spain has created new family programmes and expanded existing ones. Meanwhile, the picture for Italy during the years preceding the crisis is more of a ‘frozen landscape’. However, the diverging paths of the two countries in terms of policy reform in the years preceding the crisis do not place them in substantially different positions. The economic crisis and the austerity measures that followed have aggravated the weaknesses of family and care policies in both countries.This publication has 23 references indexed in Scilit:
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