What are the intergenerational resource transfer contributions of parents and non-parents in Europe? Using National Transfer Accounts and National Time Transfer Accounts for 12 countries around 2010, we go beyond public transfers (net taxes) to also value two statistically much less visible...

This article explores the diverging roles of leftwing parties and trade unions in determining active labor market program (ALMP) spending. We argue that unions today increasingly take into account the distinct re-employability worries of their members. Rather than as a labor market outsider...

Whereas the call for a political science based study of older people and ageing is not new (Cutler 1977; Heclo 1988), relatively little unified progress has been made so far. This chapter maps the field of generational politics and introduces our edited volume "Ageing Populations in Post-Industrial...

We explore the dimensionality of attitudes towards the welfare state among university students in eight countries representing four worlds of welfare - liberal, radical, conservative and social-democratic. We use new data from cross-nationally comparable 25-item questionnaires to derive a...

This article revisits the case for paying more attention to agency and strategy in theories of post-communist politics and society. I analyze two trends of major social and political significance in Central and Eastern Europe between 1989 and 2007: the apparent political inconsequentiality of...

This article makes a plea for a more explicitly intentional and political-strategic analysis of post-communist public policy pathways. I analyze a set of social and labor market policies implemented in the Czech Republic (pro-active job loss prevention) as compared to Hungary and Poland...

I present the Intergenerational Justice Index (IJI) - a simple four-dimensional indicator developed with the Bertelsmann Stiftung in order to compare intergenerational justice in practice across 29 OECD member states. The unit of analysis is countries, and the IJI is a macro-level snapshot...

Books reviewed: Ulf Beckmann, Von Lowe bis Leontief Friedel Bolle and Michael Carlberg (eds.), Behavioral Economics Paul Dalziel, Money, Credit and Price Stability Vivien Foster, Susana Mourato, David Pearce and Ece Ozdemiroglu, The Price of Virtue Joshua Gans (ed.), Publishing Economics Otmar...