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7. Ethno-regionalist Parties in Spain: Linking Regional Welfare Governance to ‘Sub-state’ Nation-Building

Author : Davide Vampa

Published in: The Regional Politics of Welfare in Italy, Spain and Great Britain

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This chapter shows that both Catalonia and the Basque Country have established strong and distinctive welfare models, which substantially diverge from the residual and familistic model that characterises other Spanish regions. Additionally, this chapter has demonstrated that the Catalan model is also qualitatively different from the Basque one. Whereas the latter is mainly based on the direct action of the public sector and the involvement of social partners in social governance, the former is more ‘market-oriented’ and based on competition, private initiative and freedom of choice. These qualitative differences are mainly due to the fact that the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) and the Catalan Convergence and Union (CiU) have been part of distinctive ‘policy communities’ and have established different types of regional coalitions with social and political actors. At the same time, it should be highlighted that the Basque model has also benefited from an ‘institutional’ advantage—its fiscal autonomy—which, particularly in an era of austerity, has resulted in a more generous and resilient welfare system than the Catalan (and Spanish) one.

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Metadata
Title
Ethno-regionalist Parties in Spain: Linking Regional Welfare Governance to ‘Sub-state’ Nation-Building
Author
Davide Vampa
Copyright Year
2016
Book
The Regional Politics of Welfare in Italy, Spain and Great Britain

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-39006-2

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-39007-9

Copyright Year: 2016

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39007-9_7