Basic income guarantee and politics: international experiences and perspectives on the viability of income guarantee

This volume will bring together international and national scholars and activists to provide historical overviews of the main efforts to date to pass unconditional basic income guarantee legislation in their respective countries and/or across regions of the globe. Each contributing author will be asked to address a specific set of issues or substantive content. Such issues will include who are or were the main people and groups involved in support or against suchlegislative efforts, what are or were the main theoretical and pragmatic reasons for the success or failure of BIG-related initiatives to date, what legislative alternatives compete with BIG for political favor, what if any relationship is there between a country’s level of economic development and factors affecting the legislative fate of BIG measures, what the prospects are for the future. Ideally, each contribution or chapter would be country or region specific, although several contributors will make international or cross-country comparisons. A concluding chapter will identify commonalities and differences across countries and possibly regions to the extent contributing sufficiently address a common set of question as suggested above and it will draw lessonsfor advancing social policies in general and BIG policies in particular. INDICE: Introduction: Hopes and Realities of Adopting Unconditional Basic Income Guarantee Schemes; R.K.Caputo.On the Political Feasibility of the BasicIncome Guarantee: Theoretical Considerations; J.D.Wispelaere.& .J.A.Noguera.PART I: HOPES.The Best Income Transfer Program for Modern Economies; E.M.Suplicy.An Anniversary Note - BIEN's 25th; G.Standing.PART II: REALITIES.European Union Countries.Finland: Institutional Resistance of the Welfare State against aBasic Income; M.Ikkala.Germany: Far, though Close: Problems and Prospects of BI in Germany; S.Liebermann.Ireland: Pathways to a Basic Income in Ireland; S.Healy.& .B.Reynolds.Netherlands: Final Piece of the Welfare State is Still to Come; M.Hasslet.Spain: Basic Income from Social Movements to Parliament and Back Again; D.RaventÓs., .J.Wark.,& .D.Casassas.PART II: OTHER OECD COUNTRIES .Australia: Will Basic Income Have a Second Coming?; J.Tomlinson.Canada: A Guaranteed Income Framework to Address Poverty and Inequality?; J.P.Mulvale.& .Y.Vanderborght.Japan: Political Change after the Economic Crisis Introduces Universalist Benefit; T.Yamamori.Mexico: The First Steps toward Basic Income; P.Yanes.United Kingdom: Only for Children?; M.Torry.United States of America; R.K.Caputo.PART III: OTHER COUNTRIES.Iran: A Bumpy Road toward Basic Income; H.Tabatabai.

• ISBN: 978-0-230-11691-7
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 222
• Fecha Publicación: 10/08/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido