Autore
Ascoli, Ugo

Titolo
Welfare State all'italiana e disuguaglianze sociali
Periodico
Politiche Sociali
Anno: 2020 - Fascicolo: 1 - Pagina iniziale: 3 - Pagina finale: 18

Since the 1980’s social inequalities in affluent countries have strongly grown. Many welfareregimes didn’t succeed to cope with the globalization processes, through a public policiesreorganization and a welfare recalibration, while neo-liberist theories and the confidencein the market «invisible hand» dominated politics and the mainstream academic research.Also in Italy a structural delay in reforming and adapting the welfare state in a timely mannerhas been predominant, despite the new rules of international competition, the new shapeof family demography and the new flexibility of the labour market. This has implied anincrease in all the dimensions of social inequalities, especially since the start of the lastcrisis (2008). Against this background, this article introduces the issue 1/2020 of «PoliticheSociali/Social Policies» and its focus dedicated to the relation between the main features ofwelfare policies in Italy and their impacts on social inequalities. After a theoretical articlededicated to a close examination of the different ideas of equality emerging in the publicdiscourse on welfare, six articles investigate the focus of this issue in several policy areas(pensions, anti-poverty programmes, health policies, family policies, long-term care policies,education), also advancing specific suggestions for a new welfare reform agenda that hasbecome even more urgent recently because the coronavirus pandemic.



SICI: 2284-2098(2020)1<3:WSAEDS>2.0.ZU;2-8
Testo completo: https://www.rivisteweb.it/download/article/10.7389/97332
Testo completo alternativo: https://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.7389/97332

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