Basic Income Guarantee and Politics: International Experiences and Perspectives on the Viability of Income Guarantee (Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee)

This exciting and timely collection brings together international and national scholars and advocates to provide historical overviews of efforts to pass basic income guarantee legislation in their respective countries and/or across regions of the globe. Contributing authors address specific substantive issues such as: who were the main people and groups involved in support of or against such legislative efforts; what were the main reasons for the success of failure of Big-related initiatives to date; and what are the prospects for the future. Countries discussed include Australia, Finland, Germany, Iran, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Spain, the UK, and the US. Book jacket Cover Half-title Title Copyright Dedication Previous Publications Contents Acknowledgments Part 1 Introduction 1 Hopes and Realities of Adopting Unconditional Basic Income Guarantee Schemes 2 On the Political Feasibility of Universal Basic Income : An Analytic Framework Part 2 Hopes 3 The Best Income Transfer Program for Modern Economies 4 An Anniversary Note—BIEN’s Twenty-fifth Part 3 Realities European Union Countries 5 Finland: Institutional Resistance of the Welfare State against a Basic Income 6 Germany: Far, though Close—Problems and Prospects of BI in Germany 7 Ireland: Pathways to a Basic Income in Ireland 8 The Netherlands: Final Piece of the Welfare State Is Still to Come 9 Kingdom of Spain: Basic Income from Social Movements to Parliament and Back Again Other OECD Countries 10 Australia: Will Basic Income Have a Second Coming? 11 Canada: A Guaranteed Income Framework to Address Poverty and Inequality? 12 Japan: Political Change after the Economic Crisis Introduces Universalist Benefit 13 Mexico: The First Steps toward Basic Income 14 The United Kingdom: Only for Children? 15 United States of America: GAI Almost in the 1970s but Downhill Thereafter Other Countries 16 Iran: A Bumpy Road toward Basic Income Notes on Contributors Index