Basic income on the agenda : policy objectives and political chances

290 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index

Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; How Attractive is a Basic Income for European Welfare States?; Part One - Policy Objectives; In Search of the Double-Edged Sword; Basic Income and its Cognates: Partial Basic Income versus Earned Income Tax Credit and Reductions of Social Security Contributions as Alternative Ways of Addressing the 'New Social Question'; Activation and the Burden of Working: On Instrument Choice by a Responsibility-Sensitive Egalitarian Government; Arguing for a Negative Income Tax in Germany; Hush Money or Emancipation Fee? A Gender Analysis of Basic Income

Prospects for Basic Income in an Age of Inactivity?Basic Income and Social Europe; Basic Income at the Heart of Social Europe? Reply to Fritz Scharpf; European Basic Income or the Race to the Bottom:Why Politicians Might Come to Think the Unthinkable; Bibliography; Part Two - Political Chances; Clues and Leads in the Debate on Basic Income in the Netherlands; The History of an Idea:Why Did Basic Income Thrill the Finns, but not he Swedes?; From Concept to Green Paper: Putting Basic Income on the Agenda in Ireland

Short Cuts and Wrong Tracks on the Long March to Basic Income: Debating Social Policy Reform in GermanyUps and Downs of Basic Income in Denmark; What Reforms are Needed for the Minimum Insertion Income (RMI) in France; The VIVANT Experiment in Belgium; Notes on the Contributors; Index

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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