Parading Utopia on the road to nowhere? An introduction to the special issue on the policy impact of the European basic income experiments

Author:

Chrisp Joe1ORCID,De Wispelaere Jurgen2ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Institute for Policy Research, University of Bath, UK

2. Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, Latvia

Abstract

Basic income experiments have emerged across Europe in recent years, but until now analysis has focused on their design and the scientific interpretation of their results, rather than the subsequent policy impact of these projects. This special issue addresses this gap. The papers all focus on whether and how the European basic income experiments have made an observable impact on the basic income debate and social security reform more generally. The special issue includes country case studies of the three countries in Europe that have completed their experiments, Finland, the Netherlands and Spain, as well as a case study of Scotland, where a feasibility study did not result in a field experiment, and of Ireland, which is in the process of planning at least one experiment. Two papers then also examine the effect of these experiments on the debate at EU level and outside Europe, in Australia. The special issue provides a novel contribution that advances both the scholarly and policy debates surrounding basic income at a time when COVID-19 appears to have increased interest in the policy and equally seems to have propelled the idea of experimenting with basic income even further into the mainstream.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous),Public Administration,Sociology and Political Science

Reference13 articles.

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