Comparative Political Economy of Long-Term Care for Elderly People: Political Logic of Universalistic Social Care Policy Development

摘要: Despite there being common socio-demographic pressures across advanced industrialized countries, the public elder care programmes therein tend to vary. While current literature on social devotes itself describing arrangements of each country and pigeonholing welfare/gender regime types, it does not sufficiently address this empirical puzzle. This study looks specify causal relationship between political institutions long-term programmes. It argues that countries with personal-vote-oriented electoral systems and/or fragmented party have difficulties in developing universalistic programmes, whereas party-vote-oriented cohesive are likely develop generous For whilst former types prioritize patronage-based, particularistic benefits, latter encourage actors appeal broader constituencies through welfare tests claim by examining pooled time-series cross-section data democracies, from 1980 until 2001. The results suggest politicians' reliance personal votes fragmentation ruling coalitions impede expansion spending for care.