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Annual Review of Political Science

Volume 28, 2025

The Politics of Childcare

  • Kimberly J. Morgan1
  • Department of Political Science, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA; email: [email protected]
  • Vol. 28:75-93 (Volume publication date June 2025)
  • First published as a Review in Advance on January 09, 2025
  • Copyright © 2025 by the author(s).
    This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See credit lines of images or other third-party material in this article for license information.

Abstract

The politics of childcare has become a vibrant area of research. This review analyzes the evolution of this research over several decades and identifies two phases of scholarship. The first phase concerned the limited public supports for childcare in most countries and how this reinforced a particular gender order. A second current of research took off as many countries expanded their childcare systems and highlighted the role of electoral politics and ideas about public spending on childcare as an investment in human capital. In the drive to explain patterns of policy change, the research focus has narrowed, occluding the substantive impact of different childcare systems. Future research should probe the stubbornness of gender inequalities in paid work and care and how politics and public policies shape different care economies.

Keyword(s): care economy, childcare, gender, parental leave, welfare state
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