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Parental leave regulations and the persistence of the male breadwinner model: Using fuzzy-set ideal type analysis to assess gender equality in an enlarged Europe
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Contentious citizenship: feminist debates and practices and European challenges
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82584.pdf (Author’s version preprint ) (Open Access)Citizenship is both a contentious and contested struggle about the creation of rights, duties, and opportunities. Feminist practices and debates can clarify the meaning of citizenship. This is because the form of feminist practices, characterized by an ongoing struggle, and the content of feminist debates, focusing on gender and other inequalities, recognition of different voices, and critiques of the public and private dichotomy, are particularly suited for dealing with the challenges of contentious and contested processes of citizenship. We argue more specifically that feminist debates and practices provide fruitful contributions for the citizenship challenges that the European Union must face.21 p
Health Care System Retrenchment
No full textRecent studies have argued that European welfare states have been under tremendous pressure since the onset of the recent Global Financial Crisis (GFC). The health sector, in particular, has been affected by retrenchment politics aimed at reducing public spending. Cross-national variation, however, is clearly observed as the policy responses have manifested themselves unevenly across the landscape of welfare states. This thesis is the first to examine the relationship between welfare state retrenchment, health care systems and the GFC. Using crisp-set qualitative comparative analysis (csQCA), the study intends to identify patterns of welfare state retrenchment in health care system trajectories of European countries during the (aftermath of the) recent financial crisis. The results suggest that for the occurrence of health care system retrenchment various factors in different combinations are important. Three sufficient paths towards retrenchment are observed: 1) the presence of right-oriented governments combined with being a non-liberal market economy; 2) the absence of obfuscation tactics combined with being a liberal market economy; and 3) the presence of obfuscation tactics along with lower economic growth rates and EU-pressure. Further analysis was revealed to examine why certain countries cluster around a particular pathway. We suppose that these patterns can be explained by looking at the incentives for political action. The conclusion drawn is that three particular logics could be observed: retrenchment as a window of opportunity, retrenchment as a market-function approach and retrenchment as a spillover effect. Although the findings only permit for modest generalization and further work needs to be done, the results do reveal that health care system retrenchment a topic worthy of further investigatio
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Postmoderne cultuur en representatie
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Oratie. Intersectionalitiet en interferentie. Hoe politiek en beleid ongelijkheid behouden, bestrijden en veranderen
No full textMieke Verloo
Intersectionality and interference
How politics and policy retain, fight and
change inequality
The first part of this article addresses four
problematic patterns in current intersectionality
research: a bias on identities;
a lack of attention for privilege; confusion
between normative and descriptive
concepts and a lack of deep theory. Suggested
improvements are based on the
use of a meta-concept of interference and
on linking to theories by Charles Tilly and
Sylvia Walby. The second part categorises
four promising ways of addressing interferences
between inequalities in politics and
policy making. The categories are: reactive
exposing of bias; pragmatic application of
existing instruments; substantial restructuring
and a focus on democratic and
coalition procedures
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