SPI⁺ Application in Two Countries with the Liberal Welfare Model: Cases of United Kingdom and Chile

The task of comparing social policies has focused primarily on quantifying the outputs, but leaves out an important factor for policy to be carried out, as is the quantification of the inputs. This paper focuses in the government effort to financing and implementing social policies. The goal is to p...

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Published in:Social indicators research 2017-10, Vol.134 (1), p.253-261
Main Authors: Rigla, Francisco Ródenas, Rozas, Gustavo Castillo, Figueroa, Carla Vidal, Ferrer, Jorge Garcés
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Comparative Analysis
Comparative studies
Differentiation
Financing
Human Geography
Individualized Instruction
Liberalism
Measurement
Microeconomics
Policy implementation
Public finance
Public Health
Public policy
Quality of Life Research
Social policy
Social research
Social Sciences
Sociology
Welfare
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Summary:The task of comparing social policies has focused primarily on quantifying the outputs, but leaves out an important factor for policy to be carried out, as is the quantification of the inputs. This paper focuses in the government effort to financing and implementing social policies. The goal is to present the results of the implementation of Social Policy Index+ (SPI⁺) in the United Kingdom and Chile from 2005 to 2012, establishing a transatlantic comparison of the inputs of social policy in two countries with a liberal welfare model. The research question is: Does SPI⁺ allows us to establish differentiation between countries that belong to the same welfare regime at different continents? To achieve this, the study uses the SPI⁺ as a tool for measuring and comparing transatlantic social policies. Through a comparative analysis of SPI⁺ results with a contextual description it is possible to confirm the consistency of the instrument for defining subgroups within specific welfare models, that also allows measure, classify and properly compare the two countries studied.
ISSN:0303-8300
1573-0921
DOI:10.1007/s11205-016-1420-4