Social resilience and welfare systems under COVID-19: A European comparative perspective

IF 1.5 Q2 POLITICAL SCIENCE
J. Pereirinha, Elvira Pereira
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Abstract

COVID-19 and the corresponding economic lockdown and income loss for large segments of population was something unexpected for all European countries, and their welfare systems were not prepared to protect their citizens from such threats. Social resilience is becoming used in disaster risk analysis, and preferred to that of vulnerability, to refer the ability of the social entities to respond to such challenges, enabling them to cope and adjust to adverse events. It has been more recently used in the context of the European Union (EU) about COVID-19, regarding the creation of the Recovery and Resilience Facility, intended to mitigate the economic and social impact of the coronavirus pandemic. The global nature of this pandemic makes possible and relevant a deeper understanding of social resilience at different levels of analysis: international, national, local and individual/household levels. This article aims to contribute to this by proposing a set of indicators of social resilience in face of COVID-19, supported in a theoretical framework developed herein, and comparing the performance of a selection of EU countries with distinct welfare system configurations, with different roles played by the government, the market, the social organizations and the families. Using comparable statistical data at macro level and data concerning the responses of government to the economic and social effects of the pandemic, we produce a synthetic index of social resilience, combining resilience on coping and resilience on adapting. We relate the differences found in coping and adapting with the welfare system configurations of these countries.
COVID-19下的社会复原力和福利制度:欧洲比较视角
COVID-19以及相应的经济封锁和大部分人口的收入损失对所有欧洲国家来说都是出乎意料的,他们的福利制度没有准备好保护其公民免受此类威胁。社会复原力在灾害风险分析中越来越常用,比脆弱性更常用,指的是社会实体应对此类挑战的能力,使其能够应对和适应不利事件。最近,在欧洲联盟(欧盟)关于COVID-19的背景下,关于建立恢复和复原力基金,旨在减轻冠状病毒大流行的经济和社会影响,也使用了这个词。这一流行病的全球性使得在国际、国家、地方和个人/家庭各级的不同分析层面上对社会复原力有了更深入的了解。本文旨在为此做出贡献,在本文提出的理论框架支持下,提出了一套面对COVID-19的社会弹性指标,并比较了一些福利制度配置不同、政府、市场、社会组织和家庭扮演不同角色的欧盟国家的表现。利用宏观层面的可比统计数据和有关政府应对疫情经济和社会影响的数据,我们得出了一个综合的社会复原力指数,将应对的复原力和适应的复原力结合起来。我们将在应对和适应这些国家的福利制度配置方面发现的差异联系起来。
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Global Social Policy
Global Social Policy POLITICAL SCIENCE-
CiteScore
3.20
自引率
6.70%
发文量
41
期刊介绍: Global Social Policy is a fully peer-reviewed journal that advances the understanding of the impact of globalisation processes upon social policy and social development on the one hand, and the impact of social policy upon globalisation processes on the other hand. The journal analyses the contributions of a range of national and international actors, both governmental and non-governmental, to global social policy and social development discourse and practice. Global Social Policy publishes scholarly policy-oriented articles and reports that focus on aspects of social policy and social and human development as broadly defined in the context of globalisation be it in contemporary or historical contexts.
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