by Josh Martin | May 20, 2015 | Research
Abstract: While basic income has surged in policy interest in recent years, political research has not kept up with the debate in the trenches. In this paper we tackle a political problem any enacting coalition must face: how to ensure the political stability of a basic income scheme over time. We first demonstrate how basic income schemes are particularly vulnerable to processes of policy change discussed in the recent policy feedback literature. We then analyze whether constitutionalizing basic income in a Bill of Rights protected by strong judicial review would offer a valuable route for boosting basic income’s stability. A careful examination of the decision-making process within judicial review suggests that, caught up in a dilemma between judicial restraint and judicial activism, an enacting coalition would do well not to rely on constitutional mechanisms as the sole avenue for ensuring the political stability of basic income.
by Toru Yamamori | May 18, 2015 | Research
Abstract:”The long-term vision of economic security and social participation for people with a disability held by disability activists and policy-makers has not been realized on a global scale. This is despite the implementation of various poverty alleviation initiatives by international and national governments. Indeed within advanced Western liberal democracies, the inequalities and poverty gaps have widened rather than closed. This article is based on findings from a historical-comparative policy and discourse analysis of disability income support system in Australia and the Basic Income model. The findings suggest that a model such as Basic Income, grounded in principles of social citizenship, goes some way to maintaining an adequate level of subsistence for people with a disability. This article concludes by presenting some challenges and a commitment to transforming income support policy.”
Jennifer M. Mays, “Countering disablism: an alternative universal income support system based on egalitarianism,” Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 2015.
by Toru Yamamori | May 16, 2015 | Research
Geoff Crocker proposes ‘a basic income funded by QE in proportion to output GDP and not counted as deficit’ as ‘the only ultimate solution’. This prescription is based on his diagnosis that ‘the delinkage of productivity and real wages is the underlying cause of the 2007 economic crisis.’
Geoff Crocker, “The Economic Necessity of Basic Income,” Munich Personal RePEc Archive, Paper No. 62941, posted 18 March 2015.
by Toru Yamamori | May 15, 2015 | Research
Malcolm Torry, the director of the Citizen’s Income Trust, recently published a working paper that shows two different ways which would be financially feasible.
Malcolm Torry, “Two feasible ways to implement a revenue neutral Citizen’s Income scheme,” April 2015, Euromod Working Paper Series: EM 6/15, Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex.
by Liam Upton | May 3, 2015 | Research
John Danaher, “Sex Work, Technological Unemployment and the Basic Income Guarantee”, Journal of Evolution & Technology, February 2014
by Toby | Apr 8, 2015 | Research
ABSTRACT: Policy interest in the basic income (BI) proposal is booming, but remarkably little attention is spent on systematically examining political strategies to build robust enabling coalitions in favour of BI. This paper reviews two thorny problems that affect the coalition-building efforts of BI advocates. The problem of cheap political support suggests most BI support may be of little value to further its implementation, while the problem of persistent political division argues superficial agreement amongst committed BI advocates may mask persistent disagreement on which precise model to adopt. The paper discusses the relevance of each of these problems for BI politics, employing both analytical arguments and brief illustrations taken from debates in various countries.
Jurgen De Wispelaere, “The Struggle for Strategy: On the Politics of the Basic Income Proposal“, Institute for Health and Social Policy, McGill University
