The role of the welfare state in supporting economic transitions following family bereavement: Comparing Britain and Israel
The role of the welfare state in supporting economic transitions following family bereavement: Comparing Britain and Israel
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DOI：
10.1111/spol.12440
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发表时间：
2019-01-01
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Holler, Roni
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作者：
Holler, Roni
尽管丧亲之痛是死亡和悲伤经历的核心，但直到近年来，社会护理专业人员和学者才认识到丧亲之痛带来的经济负担。基于对死亡和丧亲之痛是植根于社会背景，并假设这种经济负担是一个多方面的现象，本研究比较了英国和以色列的福利制度在三个政策设置：社会保障，殡葬服务，丧亲假。调查结果表明，虽然在这两个体系中，丧亲之痛，尤其是丧偶都被认为是值得关注的类别，但最近重组英国福利国家的压力已成功地将福利提供从国家转向市场。调查结果还表明，在这两种情况下，尽管在以色列的程度较低，但目前的政策措施并不完全符合关于丧亲之痛及其经济后果的重要学术研究，也不符合社会经济和人口趋势。这些差异处理使用的概念被剥夺公民权的悲痛，并强调关键的，但往往被忽视的作用，福利国家在构成it.Finally，这两种情况之间的差异进行了讨论，在强大的作用，犹太教在塑造以色列的政策。
Despite its centrality to the experience of death and grief, it is only in recent years that the economic burden following family bereavement has been recognized by social care professionals and scholars. Based on the realization that death and bereavement are grounded in social context, and assuming this economic burden is a multifaceted phenomenon, the present study compares the British and Israeli welfare systems in three policy settings: social security, funeral services, and bereavement leave. The findings suggest that while in both systems bereavement and especially widowhood is considered a deserving category, recent pressures for restructuring the British welfare state have been successful in shifting provision from the state to the market. The findings also show that in both cases, albeit to a lesser extent in Israel, current policy measures are not fully aligned with critical scholarship on bereavement and its financial consequences, nor with socio-economic and demographic trends. These disparities are addressed using the notion of disenfranchised grief and by emphasizing the pivotal, although often overlooked role of the welfare state in constituting it. Lastly, the differences between the two cases are discussed in terms of the powerful role of Judaism in shaping Israeli policy.