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Author | : Claire Keane |
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Release | : 2021 |
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COVID-19 had, and continues to have, a strong negative effect on incomes in Ireland due to widespread job losses as the measures put in place to slow the spread of the disease resulted in severe economic restrictions. Despite the existence of unemployment supports, additional income supports were introduced to protect incomes. As public health restrictions lift and the economy recovers, we face the withdrawal of such supports. We examine these supports and the role they played in supporting incomes. By profiling those who benefitted most from the new schemes, we highlight the groups most at risk of significant income losses as they wind down. We consider what gaps in the social welfare system necessitated the introduction of such schemes in the first place, along with potential future policy changes to ensure that the social welfare system can provide adequate income protection and financial incentives to work as we emerge from the COVID-19 crisis.
Author | : Mary P. Murphy |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2016-10-04 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1137571381 |
Download The Irish Welfare State in the Twenty-First Century Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book provides a critical and theoretically-informed assessment of the nature and types of structural change occurring in the Irish welfare state in the context of the 2008 economic crisis. Its overarching framework for conceptualising and analysing welfare state change and its political, economic and social implications is based around four crucial questions, namely what welfare is for, who delivers welfare, who pays for welfare, and who benefits. Over the course of ten chapters, the authors examine the answers as they relate to social protection, labour market activation, pensions, finance, water, early child education and care, health, housing and corporate welfare. They also innovatively address the impact of crisis on the welfare state in Northern Ireland. The result is to isolate key drivers of structural welfare reform, and assess how globalisation, financialisation, neo-liberalisation, privatisation, marketisation and new public management have deepened and diversified their impact on the post-crisis Irish welfare state. This in-depth analysis will appeal to sociologists, economists, political scientists and welfare state practitioners interested in the Irish welfare state and more generally in the analysis of welfare state change.
Author | : Michelle Norris |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2016-11-09 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 3319445677 |
Download Property, Family and the Irish Welfare State Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book examines the long-term development of the Irish welfare state since the late nineteenth century. It contests the consensus view that Ireland, like other Anglophone countries, has historically operated a liberal welfare regime which forces households to rely mainly on the market to maintain their standard of living. Drawing on case studies and key statistical data, this book argues that the Irish welfare state developed differently from most other Western European countries until recent decades. Norris's original line of argument makes the case that Ireland’s regime was distinctive in terms of both focus and purpose in that Ireland’s welfare state was shaped by the power of small farmers and moral teaching and intended to support a rural, agrarian and familist social order rather than an urban working class and industrialised economy. A well-researched and methodical study, this book will be of great interest to scholars of social policy, sociology and Irish history.
Author | : Fred Powell |
Publisher | : Policy Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2017-09-13 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1447335376 |
Download The Political Economy of the Irish Welfare State Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The political economy of the Irish welfare state provides a fascinating interpretation of the evolution of social policy in modern Ireland, as the product of a triangulated relationship between church, state and capital. Using official estimates, Professor Powell demonstrates that the welfare state is vital for the cohesion of Irish society with half the population at risk of poverty without it. However, the reality is of a residual welfare system dominated by means tests, with a two-tier health service, a dysfunctional housing system driven by an acquisitive dynamic of home-ownership at the expense of social housing, and an education system that is socially and religiously segregated. Using the evolution of the Irish welfare state as a narrative example of the incompatibility of political conservatism, free market capitalism and social justice, the book offers a new and challenging view on the interface between structure and agency in the formation and democratic purpose of welfare states, as they increasingly come under critical review and restructuring by elites.
Author | : Mel Cousins |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Political Science |
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Download The Irish Social Welfare System Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This text plots the political and legal evolution, and trends of the Irish social welfare system. It highlights the changes to appeals structure and impact of the EU, with particular reference to harmonization and the elimination of sexual discrimination.
Author | : Michel Peillon |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2001-07-30 |
Genre | : History |
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Download Welfare in Ireland Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Employing the conceptual framework elaborated by Pierre Bourdieu, Peillon provides a unified analysis of social welfare institutions and practices in Ireland. In an effort to offer an overview of the forces that have shaped and continue to influence the Irish welfare system, the author examines the actions and approaches taken by various actors involved in social welfare policy making, including the Catholic Church, the State, trade unions, employers' organizations, and feminist movements. Peillon also incorporates comparative issues that continue to impact on the way welfare systems develop and react to changes. While the focus of the work is on the struggles and developments in the Irish welfare system, this case study provides a framework for examining welfare efforts in general, and should, therefore, appeal to anyone interested in social welfare systems and policies. This unique examination of welfare in Ireland is organized into two parts. Part I focuses on the collective actors in the welfare field and lays the theoretical framework for the sociological analysis used throughout the work. Part II considers the dynamics resulting from the practices and strategies of the various actors. The chapters in the second part of the book endeavor to understand the dynamics of the welfare field which are triggered by the struggle between the main actors. Examining the relative strengths and weaknesses of these actors, in conjunction with their resources and goals, the author illustrates how the current welfare system has developed and changed as a result.
Author | : Economic and Social Research Institute |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 542 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Industries |
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Author | : Mel Cousins |
Publisher | : Four Courts Press |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
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Download The Birth of Social Welfare in Ireland, 1922-52 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is the first publication to look in detail at the politics and the policies of the development of the social welfare system in Ireland. It aims to shed some light on the broader political history of Ireland, on the political parties and the key figures of the time, in the 1920s through to the 1950s, through an examination of one of the country's major social policy areas.
Author | : Sophia Carey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
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Download Social Security in Ireland, 1939-1952 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book explores the factors which have shaped the Irish welfare state, through a case study of social security development between 1939 and 1952. At the heart of contemporary debates about the influences shaping welfare state outcomes lie the concepts of industrialisation, modernisation, religion, and patterns of state-formation. The Irish case provides a unique insight into these debates. Ireland is a European welfare state, but one in which colonial legacies are paramount. It is a modern, but late-industrialising nation, and for much of the modern period, Catholicism has been unusually influential. The book looks at how these idiosyncratic Irish experiences shaped a distinctive welfare state, and considers what this tells us about contemporary theoretical perspectives on social policy. This account of the behind the scenes battles over social security, tells us a great deal about how the welfare state in Ireland took the shape it did, and in the process, raises questions about well-established accounts of the role of the Church, political parties, and interest groups in shaping distributive outcomes which would persist for many decades.
Author | : Mel Cousins |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Ireland |
ISBN | : 9780773460362 |
Download Explaining the Irish Welfare State Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Describes how the modern Irish welfare state, faced with the need to join the open European market, emerged through a conflict among special interests (capital, class, and gender). The author studies the case of Ireland in order to explore the policy options and possibilities in welfare states.