The Universal Basic Income on the agenda of Podemos
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.14422/icade.i99.y2016.007Keywords:
Basic income, Podemos, preferences for redistribution, movement party, catch-all party.Abstract
The paper addresses the recent emergence of two phenomena on the political agenda of many OECD countries: political parties born out of social movements and the Universal Basic Income (UBI). Regarding the former, one of the most important novelties in the Spanish political context has been the emergence of Podemos. Coming from nowhere, just four months after its foundation the party became the third political force in 23 of the 40 main cities in the European elections 2014. With regards to the latter, one of the social policy proposals most discussed recently in Spain, especially after Podemos included it in the program for the European elections, has been the UBI. The paper explores the future of this proposal on the economic agenda of Podemos in the light of the preferences of its constituency. To do so the paper uses an online survey on the UBI conducted during November 10 and December 15 2014 by the “Circle” of Podemos on the UBI proposal. We propose and test two hypotheses in the article: (1) being left-wing is going to play a decreasingly important role in the vote for Podemos; (2) as a result of this, Podemos didn’t include the UBI proposal in the party’s economic program for the general elections in December 2015.
References
ARCARÓNS, J., DOMÉNECH, A., RAVENTÓS, D. y TORRENS, Ll. (2014b), “Un modelo de financiación de la Renta Básica para el conjunto del Reino de España: sí, se puede y es racional”, Sin Permiso, 7 de diciembre. Disponible online enlazando desde http://www.sinpermiso.info/textos/index.php?id=7535
BOU-HABIB, P. y OLSARETTI, S. (2004), “Liberal Egalitarianism and Workfare”, Journal of Applied Philosophy, vol. 21, núm. 3, pp. 257-270.
CIS (2014a), Barómetro (3041). Disponible online enlazando desde http://www.cis.es/cis/opencms/ES/NoticiasNovedades/InfoCIS/2014/Documentacion_3041.html
CIS (2014b), Opinión pública y política fiscal (3034). Disponible online enlazando desde http://www.cis.es/cis/opencm/ES/1_encuestas/estudios/ver.jsp?estudio=14100
DE WISPELAERE, J. y NOGUERA, J. A. (2012), “On the Political Feasibility of Universal Basic Income: An Analytic Framework”, en Caputo, R. K. (comp.), Basic Income Guarantee and Politics, Palgrave Macmillan, Nueva York, pp. 17-38.
DE WISPELAERE, J. y STIRTON, L. (2012), “A Disarmingly Simple Idea? Practical Bottlenecks in the Implementation of a Universal Basic Income”, International Social Security Review, vol. 65, núm. 2, pp. 103-121.
DE WISPELAERE, J. y STIRTON, L. (2013), “The Politics of Unconditional Basic Income: Bringing Bureaucracy Back In”, Political Studies, vol. 61, núm. 4, pp. 915-932.
FERNÁNDEZ-ALBERTOS, J. and Manzano, D. (2012), ¿Quién apoya el Estado del Bienestar? Redistribución, Estado de bienestar y mercado laboral en España, Fundación Alternativas, Madrid.
IGLESIAS, P., ERREJÓN, I., MONEDERO, J. C., BESCANSA, C. y ALEGRE, L. (2014), Borrador de Principios Políticos. Disponible en http://claroquepodemos.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Borrador-de-Principios-Pol%C3%ADticos.pdf
KIRCHHEIMER, O. (1966), “The Transformation of the Western European party systems”, en LaPalombara, J. y Weiner, M., Political Parties and Political Development, Princeton University Press, Princeton, pp. 177-210.
KITSCHELT, H. (1986), “Political Opportunity Structures and Political Protest: Anti-Nuclear Movements in Four Democracies”, British Journal of Political Science, vol. 16, pp. 57-85.
KITSCHELT, H. (1988), “Organizational and Strategy of Belgian and West German Ecology Parties: A New Dynamic of Party Politics in Western Europe?” Comparative Politics, vol. 20, núm. 2, pp. 127-154.
LIPSET, S. M. y ROKKAN, S. (1967), “Cleavage structures, party systems, and voter alignments: an introduction”, en Lipset, S. M. y Rokkan, S. (coords.), Party Systems and Voter Alignments: Cross-National Perspectives, Free Press, Nueva York, pp. 1-64.
NAVARRO, V. y TORRES LÓPEZ, J. (2014), Un proyecto económico para la gente, PODEMOS. Disponible en http://web-podemos.s3.amazonaws.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/DocumentoEconomicoNavarroTorres.pdf
PODEMOS (2014a), Programa para las elecciones europeas. Disponible en http://podemos.info/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Programa-Podemos.pdf
PODEMOS (2014b), Estatutos del partido. Disponible online en http://podemosrivas.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Estatutos-de-PODEMOS2.pdf
RAWLS, J. (2001), Justice as Fairness: A Restatement (ed. Kelly, E.), Belknap Press, Cambridge.
VAN PARIJS, P. (1995), Real Freedom for All: What (if Anything) Can Justify Capitalism?, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Downloads
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
The authors of articles published in icade. Revista de la Facultad de Derecho retain the intellectual property rights over their works and grant the journal their distribution and public communication rights, consenting to their publication under aCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivates 4.0 Internacional. Authors are encouraged to publish their work on the Internet (for example, on institutional or personal pages, repositories, etc.) respecting the conditions of this license and quoting appropriately the original source.
