The Politics of Fiscal Welfare, new book by Nathalie Morel

The Politics of Fiscal Welfare - Towards a Social Division of Welfare and Labour, by Nathalie Morel, published on January 13, 2025 (Policy Press).

Description

Fiscal welfare (or social tax expenditures) is a policy instrument associated with Liberal welfare states that has been on the rise across many European welfare states. 

This book sheds light on the use and effects of fiscal welfare in France and Sweden. Focusing on the introduction of a 50% tax deduction on domiciliary care and household services, it explores the politics behind this scheme, its effects on care provision as well as on labour market dualisation, highlighting how fiscal welfare contributes to structuring both a social division of welfare and a social division of labour. 

This ground-breaking book opens a new field of research by exploring fiscal welfare, the political uses of this policy instrument, the patterns of inequalities it gives rise to and its policy feedback effects.

Author

Nathalie Morel is an Associate Professor in political science affiliated to the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE) and to the Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies (LIEPP). Her research interests are in comparative social policy, social investment policy, fiscal welfare, care policies, the political economy of domestic employment and in social innovation.