Description du projet
Comprendre l’impact des changements technologiques dans le cas des États‑providence
La technologie a révolutionné la société dans la manière dont nous vivons, travaillons et nous divertissons. Elle a également contribué à façonner les médias, la politique, le droit et les systèmes éducatifs. Le projet WELTECH, financé par l’UE, examinera comment les États‑providence européens ont réagi et se sont adaptés à l’évolution technologique, ainsi que les raisons de cette évolution. Le projet réalisera une étude comparative sur l’Allemagne, la Suède et le Royaume‑Uni entre 2000 et 2020, chaque pays présentant un régime de protection sociale et un modèle de croissance différents, et contribuera à la théorisation du changement de l’État‑providence.
Objectif
WELTECH investigates how and why European welfare states have reacted and adapted to technological change, which – next to climate change and demographic change – arguably constitutes one of the biggest challenges societies face today. The ambition is to make an original and pathbreaking contribution to the theorisation of welfare state change more generally. Rethinking and going beyond the dominant concepts of institutional path dependence and power resources theory in the welfare state literature, the project does so by placing macroeconomic concerns at the centre of a novel conceptualisation of welfare state reforms. In other words, the project hypothesises that policy makers, in deciding over different reform trajectories, are guided primarily by concerns over how to maintain and further stimulate economic growth. In order to make sense of welfare state change, it is therefore crucial to understand a given country’s specific Growth Model, i.e. the composition of different drivers of economic growth, as well as the social bloc composed key voters and important producer groups that prop up the national growth model. To this end, the project carries out a comparative case study of three countries with distinct welfare regimes as well as growth models, Germany, Sweden, and the United Kingdom over the years 2000-2020. WELTECH conceptualises welfare state reforms in the social investment framework analysing in particular how technological disruption has led to changes in different stock, flow, and buffer policies.
Champ scientifique
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Régime de financement
MSCA-IF-EF-ST - Standard EFCoordinateur
50014 Fiesole
Italie