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2021 | 2(60) | 129-144

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Polityka społeczna w Szkocji po reformie dewolucyjnej. W stronę fragmentaryzacji brytyjskiego welfare state?

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Social policy in Scotland after the devolution reform: Towards fragmentation of the British welfare state?

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PL
W artykule przedstawiono genezę i ewolucję programów polityki społecznej w Szkocji od referendum w 1997 r. Władze regionalne w Szkocji uzyskały znaczne prerogatywy w zakresie wypłaty świadczeń społecznych, aktywnie korzystały ze stworzonych przez brytyjskie ustawodawstwo uprawnień, w efekcie czego częściowa decentralizacja systemu zabezpieczenia społecznego w Zjednoczonym Królestwie Wielkiej Brytanii i Irlandii Północnej stała się faktem. Nie jest to decentralizacja pełna, ponieważ w wyłącznych kompetencjach rządu centralnego w Londynie pozostaje administrowanie świadczeniami emerytalnymi, zasiłkami z tytułu bezrobocia i ubóstwa oraz rodzinnymi. Jedną z cech brytyjskiej polityki społecznej stała się terytorialna asymetryczność, polegająca na występowaniu częściowo odmiennych programów i instytucji polityki społecznej w poszczególnych częściach Zjednoczonego Królestwa. Najważniejszym efektem reform jest stworzenie od podstaw instytucji oraz projektów programów polityki społecznej, które mogą zostać wdrożone w życie w momencie, w którym proces emancypacji politycznej w Szkocji doprowadzi do nowego referendum regionalnego.
EN
The article presents the origins and evolution of social policy programmes in Scotland since the referendum in 1997. Regional authorities in Scotland obtained significant prerogatives in payment of social benefits. They actively exercised the rights granted by the UK legislation and the partial decentralisation of the social security system in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland has become a fact. This decentralisation is not complete, because the administration of pensions and unemployment benefits remains the sole responsibility of London’s central government. One of the features of British social policy has become territorial asymmetry, consisting of partially different programmes and social policy institutions in other parts of the UK. The most important effect of the reforms is the creation of institutions and draft social policy programs that can be put into effect, when the process of political emancipation in Scotland will lead to a new regional referendum.

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129-144

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2021

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  • University of Warsaw

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