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A two-step approach for the analysis of hybrids in comparative social policy analysis: a nuanced typology of childcare between policies and regimes
- Abstract:
- Typologies have represented an important tool for the development of comparative social policy research and continue to be widely used in spite of growing criticism of their ability to capture the complexity of welfare states and their internal heterogeneity. In particular, debates have focused on the presence of hybrid cases and the existence of distinct cross-national pattern of variation across areas of social policy. There is growing awareness around these issues, but empirical research often still relies on methodologies aimed at classifying countries in a limited number of unambiguous types. This article proposes a two-step approach based on fuzzy-set ideal type analysis for the systematic analysis of hybrids at the level of both policies (step 1) and policy configurations or combinations of policies (step 2). This approach is demonstrated by using the case of childcare policies in European economies. In the first step, parental leave policies are analysed using three methods-direct, indirect, and combinatory-to identify and describe specific hybrid forms at the level of policy analysis. In the second step, the analysis moves on to investigate the relationship between parental leave and childcare services. Clearly shows that many countries display characteristics normally associated with different types (hybrids and sub-types) . Therefore, this two-step approach demonstrates that disaggregated and aggregated analyses are equally important to account for hybrid welfare forms and make sense of the tensions and incongruences within and between policies.
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1007/s11135-016-0423-1
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- Springer Nature
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- Quality and Quantity More from this journal
- Volume:
- 51
- Issue:
- 6
- Pages:
- 2761-2780
- Place of publication:
- Netherlands
- Publication date:
- 2016-10-13
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-09-27
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1573-7845
- ISSN:
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0033-5177
- Pmid:
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29070917
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English
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1117284
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pubs:1117284
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