Transportation policy: a neglected social policy domain and aspect of social well-being in social policy/welfare regime research

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dc.contributor.authorHarms, Chase
dc.contributor.examiningcommitteeHudson, Mark (Sociology)
dc.contributor.examiningcommitteeHudson, Ian (Economics)
dc.contributor.supervisorOlsen, Gregg
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-25T18:45:30Z
dc.date.available2024-04-25T18:45:30Z
dc.date.issued2024-04-22
dc.date.submitted2024-04-23T01:14:51Zen_US
dc.date.submitted2024-04-25T18:36:51Zen_US
dc.degree.disciplineSociology and Criminology
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts (M.A.)
dc.description.abstractMobility plays a decidedly central role in the life of virtually every human in our world. Being able to move from one point to another is absolutely critical to meeting our most basic everyday needs. In the modern era, travel for work, school, leisure, and myriad other quotidian activities, including getting groceries, visiting with friends and relatives, and getting to medical appointments, are just a few of the central reasons for routine travel today. This study underscores the importance of transportation and mobility as a core aspect of human well-being, and as such, an important policy domain that should occupy a central position in the world of welfare and welfare state research. However, despite its import, transportation policy has been largely neglected in the research on well-being and welfare states. This is most strikingly evident in the research on welfare state models and typologies. This study focuses on three key dimensions of well-being, (1) inequality, (2) safety, and (3) environment, highlighting the many ways that transportation policy affects our lives, and makes a case for its inclusion as an important policy domain and component of modern welfare states. Employing Gøsta Esping- Andersen’s widely-embraced welfare state/worlds typology, it examines the character of transportation policy in three cities (Kansas City, MO, US; Stockholm, Sweden; and Luxembourg City, Luxembourg), representing each of his three welfare regimes (liberal, social democratic, and conservative, respectively). It focuses on a range of key indicators of these three dimensions, including fare provision, service availability, pedestrian infrastructure, and ticketing systems for the inequality dimension; programming in infrastructure safety and reduced road access, as well as legislation for driver training and consequences for illegal acts on the road for safety dimension; and provisions of green space, parking and urban access regulations, and environmental regulations on vehicles for the environmental dimension. Its central conclusion is that future discussion and research on welfare states should consider transportation policy as a central social policy domain.
dc.description.noteOctober 2024
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1993/38186
dc.language.isoeng
dc.rightsopen accessen_US
dc.subjectwelfare regime
dc.subjecttransportation policy
dc.subjectwelfare state
dc.subjectwell-being
dc.titleTransportation policy: a neglected social policy domain and aspect of social well-being in social policy/welfare regime research
dc.typemaster thesisen_US
local.subject.manitobano
oaire.awardNumber766-2020-1234
oaire.awardTitleCanada Graduate Scholarships Program - Masters Scholarships
project.funder.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13039/501100000155
project.funder.nameSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
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