A More Welcoming Climate: How Basic Income found better Traction in Holyrood than in Westminster

IF 0.5 Q4 POLITICAL SCIENCE
S. Thomas
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Basic income has moved tentatively on to the UK agenda since 2015, but it has struggled to find a foothold in Westminster, where the dominant view of poverty is as the result of failure in the labour market, and the response remains coercive welfare conditionality. In Scotland, government-funded research into the feasibility of basic income pilots has drawn on health and well-being priorities and civic and local authority involvement, while making an explicit connection between poverty, agency, health and wealth. This article draws on literature and semi-expert interviews to argue that the nature of Scottish political institutions and culture, allied to a Nationalist party government keen to differentiate itself from Westminster, with independence as short-term or long-term goal, has created an unusual policy space that provides the conditions for basic income as a pivoting reform. While implementation of a Basic Income may be impossible without full independence, Scotland is creating an ideational climate where – unlike south of the border – it at least looks feasible.
一个更受欢迎的环境:基本收入如何在荷里路德比在威斯敏斯特更受欢迎
自2015年以来,基本收入已暂时列入英国议程,但它一直难以在威斯敏斯特找到立足点,在威斯敏斯特,人们普遍认为贫困是劳动力市场失败的结果,而应对措施仍然是强制性的福利条件。在苏格兰,政府资助的基本收入试点可行性研究借鉴了健康和福祉优先事项以及公民和地方当局的参与,同时明确了贫困、机构、健康和财富之间的联系。本文利用文献和半专家访谈,认为苏格兰政治制度和文化的性质,与热衷于将自己与威斯敏斯特区别开来的民族主义政党政府相结合,以独立为短期或长期目标,创造了一个不同寻常的政策空间,为基本收入作为一项重点改革提供了条件。虽然如果没有完全独立,基本收入的实施可能是不可能的,但苏格兰正在创造一种理念氛围,与边境以南不同,它至少看起来是可行的。
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Scottish Affairs
Scottish Affairs POLITICAL SCIENCE-
CiteScore
1.20
自引率
25.00%
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46
期刊介绍: Scottish Affairs, founded in 1992, is the leading forum for debate on Scottish current affairs. Its predecessor was Scottish Government Yearbooks, published by the University of Edinburgh''s ''Unit for the Study of Government in Scotland'' between 1976 and 1992. The movement towards the setting up the Scottish Parliament in the 1990s, and then the debate in and around the Parliament since 1999, brought the need for a new analysis of Scottish politics, policy and society. Scottish Affairs provides that opportunity. Fully peer-reviewed, it publishes articles on matters of concern to people who are interested in the development of Scotland, often setting current affairs in an international or historical context, and in a context of debates about culture and identity. This includes articles about similarly placed small nations and regions throughout Europe and beyond. The articles are authoritative and rigorous without being technical and pedantic. No subject area is excluded, but all articles pay attention to the social and political context of their topics. Thus Scottish Affairs takes up a position between informed journalism and academic analysis, and provides a forum for dialogue between the two. The readers and contributors include journalists, politicians, civil servants, business people, academics, and people in general who take an informed interest in current affairs.
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