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Llorenç Soler-Buades
@solerbuades.bsky.social
Max Weber Post-doctoral Fellow at the European University Institute. Comparative social policy & political economy.
Highly recommend this excellent contribution to welfare politics by @ewanrobo.bsky.social! A timely reminder that elites and political organisations often decide on social policy — and rights — regardless of public opinion.
Do ideas or political demand drive welfare reform? @ewanrobo.bsky.social shows how ideational power, not voter pressure, shaped in-work benefits in the UK and France. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/EGt2uCw

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com #polsky #polsci
July 21, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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El Gobierno catalán anuncia préstamos a jóvenes para pagar la entrada de su primera vivienda (incentivar la demanda). Cuando hicieron una política similar en Reino Unido (help-to-buy):

❌Aumentaron 8% precios.
❌No aumentó la oferta.
❌Los promotores se apropiaron de toda la ayuda.
June 17, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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A meta-analysis of 115 studies shows that unconditional cash transfers have positive impacts on a range of key economic and social outcomes, including consumption, income, labour supply, and child health and education. voxdev.org/topic/social...
What broad lessons have we learned from 115 studies on unconditional cash transfers?
A meta-analysis of 115 studies shows that unconditional cash transfers have positive impacts on a range of key economic and social outcomes, including consumption, income, labour supply, and child hea...
voxdev.org
May 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
⏰ 📕 New publication out with Francisco Ferraioli in Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy

What makes national-level social policy reforms so hard to deliver in decentralized welfare systems?

Find out here, it's open access!

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The nexus between welfare rescaling and administrative burden: The case of minimum income provision in Spain | Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy | Cambridge Core
The nexus between welfare rescaling and administrative burden: The case of minimum income provision in Spain
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May 28, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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This is an important paper showing how access to safety net benefits is directly related to mortality. Cuts to services, even in the guise of work requirements, will lead to unnecessary deaths!
Talk about some timely research.

Here's the punchline: "Loss of drug subsidies after Medicaid disenrollment was associated with higher mortality among low-income Medicare beneficiaries."

www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
May 14, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Un gran pèrdua pel mallorquinisme polític i l'esquerra en general. En pau descansis, Pere.
Des de Mallorca Nova lamentam la pèrdua de Pere Sampol, persona clau per la història del nostre país.

El teu compromís i la teva lluita deixen una empremta inesborrable.
April 26, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Some good news: my second thesis article is out in Journal of Social Policy! 🎉 @socialpolicyuk.bsky.social

I explore how Spain adopted a minimum income scheme in 2020 - despite polarized politics. The twist? (Left) parties, unions, and territorial politics matter.

It's open access:
The politics of minimum income reform in Spain: explaining unexpected and consensual path departure | Journal of Social Policy | Cambridge Core
The politics of minimum income reform in Spain: explaining unexpected and consensual path departure
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April 10, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Des de la @uab.cat em publiquen aquest article en format divulgatiu, on explico els principals resultats de l'estudi i on hi faig una petita reflexió sobre les polítiques de renda mínima i la condicionalitat laboral.

Podeu trobar el resum aquí: ddd.uab.cat/record/310257
April 9, 2025 at 1:08 PM
“Crecemos porque somos más, no porque vivamos o trabajemos mejor.”

Sobre creixememt econòmic i desigualtat social:
April 1, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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Entrevista molt interessant amb @josenoguerauab.bsky.social
Tan important és la materialitat d’una herència universal (un pagament incondicional al arribar a ser adult) com la forma de finançar-la: una redistribució general (parcial) de les herències.

naciodigital.cat/societat/jos...
José A. Noguera: «Un impost de successions més just podria finançar una herència universal»
El sociòleg especialitzat en el disseny de polítiques socials i fiscalitat assenyala que Catalunya podria apujar molt més les exigències tributàries: "Hi ha països on s'ha reduït la taxa de pobresa d'...
naciodigital.cat
March 31, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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New article: Navigating Digital Welfare: A Multi-Level Maze? In Social Policy & Administration. I argue that greater conceptual and empirical engagement with welfare state complexity is needed in studies of digital welfare. (OPEN ACCESS) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Navigating Digital Welfare: A Multi‐Level Maze?
Greater conceptual and empirical engagement with welfare state complexity is needed in studies of digital welfare. This article explores how existing concepts such as welfare systems, subsidiarisatio...
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March 26, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Debatim moltíssim sobre quines polítiques públiques hem de fer i quines no. Sobre qui mereix ajudes i qui no. Però les ajudes més grans en aquest país les reben les persones amb més renda.

Això, priomordial, sobre la necessitat d'una reforma fiscal que ens pugui permetre viure millor:
Resultats preliminars d'una investigació amb @alessandrapafu.bsky.social i @espaizerovuit.bsky.social

Les rendes del capital es concentren en el 0,01% més ric. No obstant la seva baixa tributació fa que l'IRPF no sigui progressiu.

És hora de corregir-ho.

@elmondiari.bsky.social
Rendes del capital, motor de desigualtat
"Promoure una distribució més equitativa i una fiscalitat justa no només és un imperatiu ètic, sinó també una
elmon.cat
March 25, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Resultats preliminars d'una investigació amb @alessandrapafu.bsky.social i @espaizerovuit.bsky.social

Les rendes del capital es concentren en el 0,01% més ric. No obstant la seva baixa tributació fa que l'IRPF no sigui progressiu.

És hora de corregir-ho.

@elmondiari.bsky.social
Rendes del capital, motor de desigualtat
"Promoure una distribució més equitativa i una fiscalitat justa no només és un imperatiu ètic, sinó també una
elmon.cat
March 25, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Happy to see our paper on how territorial politics shapes gender-friendly legislation (2022) featured in this awesome Collection on Gender & Sexuality in Southern Europe! 🎉

Check out the entire collection on this increasingly relevant research agenda:
📚 In our Collection on #Gender and #Sexuality

Morality Policy Coalitions in Parliamentary Votes: The Interaction of the Church-State Conflict and Territorial Politics

#FreeAccess article by M. León, @manuel-alvarinho.bsky.social & @solerbuades.bsky.social 👇
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March 18, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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📢Difusión pls!

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March 12, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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I wonder if we'll hear more about young female voters or young male voters.
February 23, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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🚨 #Data alert 📣 We just released #ParlLawSpeech – full texts of more than 40k bills, 28k laws, and 3 mio. parliamentary speeches from 7 countries (AT, CZ, DE, DK, ES, HR, HU) and the EU! If you study democracy with #TextAsData / #NLP methods, this is for you! A short 🧵 (1/3) #PoliSkyData #polisky
February 13, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Publication alert! 🚨

Care at the Crossroads: How Policy Feedback Shaped Competing Feminist Advocacy for Parental Leave Reform in Spain?

I promise a fascinating thread on the politics of gender and work in Spain. Don't miss it! 🧵 1/9

doi.org/10.1111/polp...
Politics & Policy | PSO Policy Research Journal | Wiley Online Library
Growing attention to “degenderization” reforms that aim to encourage men's caregiving roles may generate opposition from groups advocating to prioritize mothers' right to care. This article seeks to ...
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February 13, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Deadline extended to February 10 :)
Working on comparative welfare politics?

Only two weeks left to submit your abstract for the 2025 REPS Conference in Logroño!🍷

Send your proposal to panel n7 (and share widely): reps2025.unirioja.es/es/pages/com...
January 30, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Last week to send your abstract to the second Doctoral Workshop on Comparative Social and Public Policy (aka COSPPO). UPF, 8-9 May 2025.

Submissions through this forms: forms.gle/NfzQecFrZFhU...

Here is the video from last year 😁: www.youtube.com/watch?v=chk8...
January 29, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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My second bsky 😅: 📣with Dani Marinova we have just published this exciting paper on the impact of extended paternity leave to 16 weeks full paid and non-transferable 👇🏽👇🏽‼️
Paternity leave in Spain extended from 5 to 16 weeks, fully paid, now equal to maternity leave.
Marinova and León show that this increased take-up of full(!) leave among men from 36 to 64%! Taking some leave fell from 40 to 20% and differences between contract types remain.
doi.org/10.1177/0958...
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January 28, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Aquí va mi primer bski: @manuel-alvarinho.bsky.social y yo misma tenemos este interesante panel sobre juegos políticos detrás de las políticas en el próximo congreso #REPS2025. Últimos días para enviar propuestas! 👇🏽
Última semana para enviar abstract al panel que coordino con @margaleon.bsky.social sobre los procesos políticos detrás de las reformas en política social!

La #REPS2025 será en Logroño entre el 22 y el 24 de octubre: reps2025.unirioja.es/es

#PolíticaSocial #SocialPolicy #ESPAnet
January 28, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Última semana para enviar abstract al panel que coordino con @margaleon.bsky.social sobre los procesos políticos detrás de las reformas en política social!

La #REPS2025 será en Logroño entre el 22 y el 24 de octubre: reps2025.unirioja.es/es

#PolíticaSocial #SocialPolicy #ESPAnet
January 28, 2025 at 1:15 PM