Basic income trials and the politics of scale: A research agenda
针对基本收入试验的政治分析滞后问题，提出以政治规模为视角的研究议程，探讨试验的起源、设计差异及对政策发展的影响，为评估试验提供新方法。
Abstract The growing popularity of basic income has led to extensive trials of the policy in numerous settings across the world. However, analysis of the politics of basic income, and in particular the political dynamics preceding and resulting from trial programs, lags. In response, we propose a research agenda that uses political scale to investigate where basic income trials emerge, how individual trials' design and implementation parameters vary, and how those trials influence subsequent policy development. By focusing on the previously omitted variable of political scale, our approach addresses a number of key challenges in evaluating basic income trials. First, we provide a means of identifying negative and partial cases to remedy the small‐N problem at the national and regional scales. Second, focusing on a given scale helps to identify specific incumbent programs and policy possibilities influenced by basic income trials. Third, our framework draws attention to the importance of distinct, scale‐based political dynamics in both securing basic income trials and converting trial programs into future policy changes.