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Groups, Parties and Credit-Claiming Dynamics: The Politics of Minimum Income in the Age of Austerity

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The Politics of Minimum Income

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This chapter briefly retraces the strengths and limits of established welfare theories—functionalism, power resource theory, (historical) institutionalism and the diffusion of policy model—in relation to the two empirical and theoretical puzzles that lie at the core of this volume: explaining both path departure and policy reversal in minimum income reforms. To move beyond these approaches, it integrates the classic literature on political exchange intermediated by interest groups and parties with recent theoretical perspectives on the role of party competition, adapting both to the specific ‘political properties’ of minimum income schemes. Building on that, a new analytical and theoretical framework is introduced, that allows the interpretation of path departure, institutionalization, and policy reversal through different types of credit-claiming dynamics resulting from the encounter of socio-political demand (interest groups and voters) and political supply (political parties).

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Natili, M. (2019). Groups, Parties and Credit-Claiming Dynamics: The Politics of Minimum Income in the Age of Austerity. In: The Politics of Minimum Income . Work and Welfare in Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96211-5_2

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