New Blueprints for Social Policy Following Covid-19: to What Effect?

A public event hosted by the Alternative Policy Solutions project at the Department of Political Science.

A first glance indicates that policy responses to coping with the covid-19 outbreak have mostly been “ad hoc” measures, one-off initiatives generally at the margins of social protection systems. Multibillion-dollar emergency relief packages have privileged transitory budgets and programs rather than reinforcing welfare institutions that have faced decades of defunding and discredit. Was this a way of preventing post-crisis trajectories from strengthening social and economic rights and reversing the current social order so profoundly marked by market fundamentalism and individual agency? Or are we witnessing a fundamental transformation of social protection systems, in which public provision is gaining scale and scope again by the retraction of financial interests and actors that in recent years have made the sphere of social reproduction (health, education, housing, water and sanitation, social care) a privileged locus of wealth accumulation, to the detriment of people’s wellbeing?

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