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From re-education to child protection: an analysis of cantonal policy norms in Switzerland 1970-2018

Reiss, Thomas

European Consortium for Political Research 2021

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  • Título:
    From re-education to child protection: an analysis of cantonal policy norms in Switzerland 1970-2018
  • Autor: Reiss, Thomas
  • Assuntos: Institute of Political Science ; Political science
  • Notas: Reiss, Thomas (2021). From re-education to child protection: an analysis of cantonal policy norms in Switzerland 1970-2018. In: ECPR General Conference, Virtual event 2021, 30 August 2021 - 3 September 2021, European Consortium for Political Research.
    https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/206810/
  • Descrição: Child placement policies have undergone considerable change in many Western European countries in the last decades. From taking away children without due process and abuse in foster homes and families to the inclusion of experts in decision-making and reducing informal arrangements, many countries made significant changes. The long-standing conservative-authoritarian norm that predominated child welfare policies has slowly but certainly been replaced by a norm that centers around child protection. State intervention in parental care is highly delicate as it interferes with one of the most private areas of private life: the education of children. In the federal system of Switzerland the 26 subnational units, the cantons, enjoy a large degree of autonomy in social policies, which results in great heterogeneity across cantons. As the subnational policy diversity in this field has so far not been analyzed for all cantons longitudinally, we collected the first comprehensive data set to do this. With this innovative data set we aim to answer the question what drives the adoption of child protection policy norms in Switzerland in the last 50 years. Subnational policymaking operates under a certain pressure to harmonize, while at the same time, leaving considerable room for maneuver for the cantons to adopt solutions that fit best for them. Due to the smalls size of many cantons, they coordinate and cooperate on a regular basis with each other in various policy fields. I thus argue that participation and frequency of Intergovernmental Meetings promotes the adoption of new policy norms. I furthermore argue that phases of politicization lead to policy norm adoption. The paper contributes twofold. First, it provides the first comprehensive analysis of a policy norm change for a social care policy that is crucial to gender roles in Western societies. Second, it applies policy norm diffusion to the subnational level and thereby advances the policy diffusion literature.
  • Editor: European Consortium for Political Research
  • Data de criação/publicação: 2021
  • Idioma: Inglês
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