Policy change and partisan politics : understanding family policy differentiation in two similar countries
León, Margarita (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Govern i Polítiques Públiques)
Pavolini, Emmanuele (Università degli Studi di Macerata)
Miro Artigas, Joan (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Sorrenti, Antonino (Università degli Studi di Milano)

Date:	2019
Abstract:	This article looks at how different electoral competition dynamics can result in differentiated party positioning on childcare and family policy. Italy and Spain are compared using a most similar case design. The presence of women in politics,the socioeconomic profiles of the voters of the two main left-wing and right-wing Italian and Spanish parties, and opinions on traditional norms of motherhood explain different policy trajectories and higher incentives for the conservative party in Spain to converge toward the social democratic party in more progressive views of family policy.
Grants:	Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología SO2017-88906-R Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades CSO2017-88906-R
Rights:	Tots els drets reservats.
Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió acceptada per publicar
Subject:	Family policy ; Childcare
Published in:	Social politics : international studies in gender, state, and society, Summer 2019, p. 1-26, ISSN 1468-2893

Adreça alternativa: https://academic.oup.com/sp/advance-article/doi/10.1093/sp/jxz025/5529164
DOI: 10.1093/sp/jxz025

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