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Migration and Healthcare Reforms in Spain: Symbolic Politics, Converging Outputs, Oppositions from the Field

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  • María Bruquetas-Callejo
  • Roberta Perna

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Migrants’ healthcare entitlement represents a conflictive issue in the political battlefield, with research pointing towards the determinant role of party politics in determining policy outputs. Addressing the 2012 healthcare reform and 2018 counter-reform adopted in Spain by a right-wing and left-wing government respectively and drawing on qualitative analysis of parties’ discourses and policy measures, we argue that ideological differences along the healthcare-migration nexus were overemphasised to play symbolic politics. Partisan competition had less impact on actual outputs, while clashes between the central and regional governments, path-dependent practices and opposition from multiple venues played a central role in the policymaking process.

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  • María Bruquetas-Callejo & Roberta Perna, 2020. "Migration and Healthcare Reforms in Spain: Symbolic Politics, Converging Outputs, Oppositions from the Field," South European Society and Politics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 25(1), pages 75-98, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:25:y:2020:i:1:p:75-98
    DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2020.1769342
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