19 articles in this issue
Sin resumen
Olga Salido
From both a quantity and quality perspective, children occupy centre-stage in any welfare equilibrium. Very low fertility does not correspond to citizens’ desires and will, in the long haul, have dire societal consequences. Insufficient investment in the ... see more
The process of Europeanization implies a confluence of resources, social representations and outputs by the EU member states. This is mainly due to the sharing of ideas and values, to structural economic harmonisation, and to institutional system-building... see more
The first part of this work presents the social policies practised before the Spanish democracy. The second one analyzes the neocorporatist policies applied during the democratic transition. The third one deals with the break of these practices, which coi... see more
Social and demographic changes related to informal care model as well as the new idea of social risk have lead to a social and political debate which has concluded at least in Spanish case in a new branch of the Welfare State, in many ways a synthesis of ... see more
This article describes the last reforms in the Spanish retirement pensions and how differently personal income has evolved between the young and the elder. The author concludes that poverty risk has risen among the older than 60 bacause several factors. P... see more
The article analyses recent development in families and social policy-making. First, a succinct review is carried out on programmes and policies since the times of transition to democracy (late 1970s). Subsequently, political initiatives and legislation p... see more
The concept of welfare states safety-net refers to those programmes that offer a means-tested guaranteed minimum income in the schemes for social protection. In the paper, we analyse the main developments followed by these policies in the last two decades... see more
El objetivo del presente artículo es presentar una visión de la situación actual de las políticas del mercado de trabajo, en general, y de las políticas activas, en particular, en España. Para ello, se analizan los siguientes aspectos. Primero, se realiza... see more
New social risks as the aging, the migratory movements, the inequality of gender, the changes in the familiar structure or the productive relocation, in a context of financial constriction and administrative decentralization of the Welfare state, have lea... see more
The position of Spain in the international migration system has substantially changed over the last decade. The settlement of immigrant communities poses a series of important challenges to Spanish society. The social protection schemes included in the we... see more
In recent years, it has been asserted that western citizens´ attitudes in support of a powerful Welfare State are less enthusiastic than they were in the past. At present, it is argued, citizens would no longer have a desire for an increase in social expe... see more
Since near a decade ago, the field of the Political Communication is one of the most dynamical in Spanish communication research. Aset of factors related to the socio-political, institutional and scientific contexts explain the ferment in this field of re... see more
The problem of stability in every normative theoretical model refers, in the first place, to questions such as the legitimacy of the social organization principles, and secondly, to the moral motivation to acknowledge them and rule personal behaviour with... see more
Elixabete Imaz
Marta García Lastra
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