Descrizione del progetto
Comprendere l’impatto del cambiamento tecnologico nel caso degli stati sociali
La tecnologia ha rivoluzionato la società, dal modo in cui viviamo, lavoriamo e ci divertiamo, contribuendo inoltre a plasmare i media, la politica, il diritto e i sistemi educativi. Il progetto WELTECH, finanziato dall’UE, esaminerà il modo in cui gli stati sociali europei hanno reagito e si sono adattati al cambiamento tecnologico, nonché i motivi alla basa. Il progetto condurrà uno studio comparativo su Germania, Svezia e Regno Unito, ciascuno con un diverso regime di welfare e modello di crescita, dal 2000 al 2020 e contribuirà alla teorizzazione del cambiamento dello stato sociale.
Obiettivo
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.
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MSCA-IF-EF-ST - Standard EFCoordinatore
50014 Fiesole
Italia