Social Services in Times of Economic and Social Crisis: The case of Spain
Autori:
Miguel-A. MATEO-PEREZ, Maria-Asuncion MARTINEZ-ROMAN,
Yolanda DOMENECH-LOPEZ
Cod: ISSN: 1583-3410 (print), ISSN: 1584-5397 (electronic)
Dimensiuni: pp. 96-110
How to cite this article:Mateo-Perez, M.A. Martinez-Roman, M.A., Domenech-Lopez, Y. (2015). Social Services in Times of Economic and Social Crisis: The case of Spain. Revista de Cercetare si Interventie Sociala, 50, 96-110. |
Abstract:
The financial and economic crisis which originated in 2008 has had a severe
impact on the population of the Southern European countries. The economic
policies of austerity and public deficit control, as well as the neo-liberal and
conservative social policies are redefining the public social protection systems, in
particular the Social Services. In order to get to understand the current situation,
we shall explain how the Social Services were developed in Spain and analyse the
causes and consequences of the economic crisis. The working hypothesis is that
the greater the increase on the population’s needs, the more developed the Social
Services should be. We carried out a descriptive analysis of the situation as far as
the social impacts of the crisis per region are concerned. We tested the hypothesis
through a parametric model of analysis of variance (one-way ANOVA) triangulating
with the non-parametric Kruscal-Wallis test. The working hypothesis
failed. The regions with better developed Social Services show a lower level of
poverty and social exclusion. The challenges that the public Social Services
system faces in times of crisis is three-fold: 1) re-modelling of local administration
and transferring of the municipal Social Services responsibilities to the regional
administration; 2) an increase of the population at risk of poverty and social
exclusion 3) impact on social policies.
Keywords:
social policies, Spain, social services, economic crisis.
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