IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/pal/etbchp/978-3-030-14378-7_6.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Diversion Ahead? Change Is Needed but That Doesn’t Mean That Basic Income Is the Answer

In: Implementing a Basic Income in Australia

Author

Listed:
  • Dina Bowman

    (The Brotherhood of St Laurence
    University of Melbourne)

  • Shelley Mallett

    (University of Melbourne)

  • Diarmuid Cooney-O’Donoghue

    (The Brotherhood of St Laurence)

Abstract

Using an expanded version of De Wispelaere and Stirton’s 2004 framework for assessing basic income policies, we examine selected past and recent trials. The trials have all produced inconclusive results, in part because of the political contexts in which they have been implemented. As a result, they do little to progress policy reforms to address the challenges of economic insecurities and inequalities. Basic income proposals can act as beacons for change, but because they often lack detail, they risk distracting attention from the challenges and opportunities for social security reform. Our expanded framework enables detailed assessment of the dimensions of proposals for change. It also enables the identification of the elements of basic income proposals that can be incorporated into progressive efforts to reclaim social security.

Suggested Citation

  • Dina Bowman & Shelley Mallett & Diarmuid Cooney-O’Donoghue, 2019. "Diversion Ahead? Change Is Needed but That Doesn’t Mean That Basic Income Is the Answer," Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee, in: Elise Klein & Jennifer Mays & Tim Dunlop (ed.), Implementing a Basic Income in Australia, chapter 6, pages 111-126, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:etbchp:978-3-030-14378-7_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-14378-7_6
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:etbchp:978-3-030-14378-7_6. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.