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

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Hopes and Realities of Adopting Unconditional Basic Income Guarantee Schemes....Pages 3-16
On the Political Feasibility of Universal Basic Income: An Analytic Framework....Pages 17-38
Front Matter....Pages 39-39
The Best Income Transfer Program for Modern Economies....Pages 41-53
An Anniversary Note — BIEN’s Twenty-fifth....Pages 55-60
Front Matter....Pages 61-61
Finland: Institutional Resistance of the Welfare State against a Basic Income....Pages 63-81
Germany: Far, though Close — Problems and Prospects of BI in Germany....Pages 83-106
Ireland: Pathways to a Basic Income in Ireland....Pages 107-124
The Netherlands: Final Piece of the Welfare State Is Still to Come....Pages 125-134
Kingdom of Spain: Basic Income from Social Movements to Parliament and Back Again....Pages 135-149
Australia: Will Basic Income Have a Second Coming?....Pages 153-175
Canada: A Guaranteed Income Framework to Address Poverty and Inequality?....Pages 177-201
Japan: Political Change after the Economic Crisis Introduces Universalist Benefit....Pages 203-216
Mexico: The First Steps toward Basic Income....Pages 217-233
The United Kingdom: Only for Children?....Pages 235-263
United States of America: GAI Almost in the 1970s but Downhill Thereafter....Pages 265-281
Iran: A Bumpy Road toward Basic Income....Pages 285-300
Back Matter....Pages 301-322