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In this excellent study of German and Italian work-family policies, Blome offers a persuasive account of welfare state change that has lessons for both scholars and policy-makers. Showing that reform is possible, but only under certain conditions, Blome breaks with a longstanding view of welfare states as stagnant and unlikely to change. Thoughtful, deeply researched and lucidly written, this book is a model of how comparative policy research should be done.

Kimberly Morgan, George Washington University, USA

Why did Germany but not Italy embark upon a bold new approach to family policy in recent decades? Blomes mixed-method analyses shed powerful new light on how work-family reconciliation is facilitated by womens political representation, egalitarian change in mass opinion, and competition between political parties. The Politics of Work-Family Policy Reforms is essential reading for scholars of gender, public policy, and welfare state development in Europe.

Clem Brooks, Indiana University, USA

This book provides a rich comparative analysis of the politics of family policies in Germany and Italy.

Martin Seeleib-Kaiser, University of Oxford, UK

This engaging book uses a comparative case study framework and an innovative methodological approach to assess the determinants of work-family reconciliation policy developments. Blome shines a light on an understudied policy arena, integrating multiple explanatory frameworks to untangle the puzzle of differing trajectories in similar countries. The result is a fresh look at the complexities of the policy-making process.

Janet C. Gornick, City University of New York, USA

The Politics of Work-Family Policy Reforms in Germany and Italy

One of the fundamental challenges facing modern welfare states is the question of work-family reconciliation. An increasing share of mothers work, but many European welfare states do not adequately support the dual-earner model, especially in southern Europe.

After 2005, German policy makers transformed the nature of Germanys family- policy regime through a number of legislative measures, whilst Italy, a country with many similarities, witnessed little change. Using a multi-methods approach, this book addresses the puzzle of why Germany was able to implement far- reaching reforms in this policy area after a long impasse and Italy was not. As such, it delivers a broad, systematic account of these reforms and sheds light on why similar reforms were not also adopted in other similar welfare states at the same time. More generally, it contributes to understanding the determinants of welfare policy change in modern European welfare states.

This text will be of key interest to scholars, students and professionals working on topics linked to European politics, welfare and work-family policies, comparative politics, social policy and, more broadly, to political science and gender studies.

Agnes Blome is Research Fellow of the Research Unit Inequality and Social Policy at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Germany.

Routledge Studies in the Political Economy of Welfare

Series editors: Martin Rhodes and Maurizio Ferrera, The European University Institute, Florence, Italy

For a full list of titles in this series, please visit www.routledge.com

This series presents leading edge research on the recasting of European welfare states. The series is interdisciplinary, featuring contributions from experts in economics, political science and social policy. The books provide a comparative analysis of topical issues, including:

• reforms of the major social programmes pensions, health and social security
• the changing political cleavages in welfare politics
• policy convergence and social policy innovation
• the impact of globalisation.

14The Role of Business in the Development of the Welfare State and Labor Markets in Germany

Containing social reforms

Thomas Paster

15Politics of Segmentation

Party competition and social protection in Europe

Georg Picot

16Pension Reforms in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe

From post-socialist transition to the global financial crisis

Igor Guardiancich

17The Politics of Welfare State Transformation in Germany

Still a semi-sovereign state?

Christof Schiller

18The Politics of Work-Family Policy Reforms in Germany and Italy

Agnes Blome

The Politics of Work-Family Policy Reforms in Germany and Italy

Agnes Blome

First published 2017
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Blome, Agnes, author.

Title: The politics of work-family policy reforms in Germany and Italy / Agnes Blome.

Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017. | Series: Routledge studies in the political economy of welfare ; 18 | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016025362 | ISBN 9781138841406 (hardback) | ISBN 9781315732237 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Work and familyGermany. | Work and familyItaly. | Family policyGermany. | Family policyItaly. | GermanySocial policy. | ItalySocial policy.

Classification: LCC HD4904.25 .B59 2017 | DDC 306.3/6dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016025362

ISBN: 978-1-138-84140-6 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-73223-7 (ebk)

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To my parents

Contents

This book originated in a project on intergenerational relations in the welfare state. We compared institutional regulations for young and old people and their living situations in four different welfare states, as well as the work-family context. Two of the welfare states Sweden and France were very supportive of mothers employment, while the other two Germany and Italy had a long tradition of reliance on the male-breadwinner model. While working on the book, however, Germany started to reform its work-family policies with the aim of a better support of working mothers. This struck me as a surprise given the conventional wisdom that social policies seldom undergo paradigm shifts, and I became interested in the causal mechanisms that led to these reforms. I thank Jens Alber and Wolfgang Keck for numerous critical and enlightening discussions throughout the work on this project.

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