Politics of Childcare Policy beyond the Left-Right Scale: Postindustrialization, Transformation of Party Systems, and Welfare State Restructuring
Politics of Childcare Policy beyond the Left-Right Scale: Postindustrialization, Transformation of Party Systems, and Welfare State Restructuring
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超越左右尺度的儿童保育政策政治：后工业化、政党制度转型和福利国家重组
DOI：
10.1111/1475-6765.12008
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发表时间：
2013
影响因子：
5.3
通讯作者：
Takeshi
中科院分区：
文献类型：
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作者：
Hieda;Takeshi
儿童保育政策已成为后工业化民主国家社会和经济政策的组成部分。本文探讨政党制度的转型如何建构儿童保育政策的政治。它揭示了政党在社会价值维度以及再分配维度上就儿童保育和女性就业政策相互竞争。假设不同政党的政策对公共育儿政策有不同的影响，本文假设政府的政策立场--由执政党的政策立场组成--影响育儿服务公共支出的变化。通过对18个先进工业化国家1980年至2005年的时间序列和横截面数据进行多变量回归分析，发现政府的再分配政策立场与其社会自由保守政策立场相互作用，左翼自由主义政府增加了儿童保育服务的预算，而左翼保守主义政府则没有。
Childcare policy has become an integral part of social and economic policy in post‐industrial democracies. This article explores how the transformation of party systems structures the politics of childcare policy. It reveals that political parties contend with each other over childcare and female employment policy on the social‐value dimension as well as the redistributive dimension. Assuming that different party policies have distinct impacts on public childcare policy, it is hypothesised in this article that a government's policy position – composed of the governing parties' policy positions – affects changes in public spending for childcare services. Through an analysis of the pooled time‐series and cross‐section data of 18 advanced industrialised countries from 1980 until 2005 using multivariate regression methods, it is revealed that a government's redistributive left–right policy position interacts with its social liberal–conservative policy position, and that a left–liberal government raises its budget for childcare services while a left–conservative government does not.