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JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN SOCIAL POLICY
卷 25, 期 3, 页码 270-285出版社
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0958928715588704
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Long-term care; care policy; institutional change; elderly care
This article explores changes that took place in long-term care (LTC) policies during the last two decades in six European welfare states. In this regard, it addresses three issues: (1) why reforms took place, (2) the main actors and coalitions driving this process and the institutional mechanisms at work and (3) the main outcomes of reform processes. In order to analyse the development of LTC policies, the article applies theoretical concepts of historical institutionalism. Our interpretation is that institutional change in LTC policy has taken place through a protracted institutional dynamic in which continuity and discontinuity are inextricably linked and where tensions and contradictions have played a crucial role. With regard to outcomes, the article analyses coverage and citizens' social rights, working conditions in the care sector and trajectories of de-/re-familization of care. The final impact is that the level of universalism has generally increased in Europe, but that in part it has adopted a new form of restricted universalism', characterized by universal entitlements to LTC benefits constrained by limitations in provision due to financial constraints and budget ceilings.
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