This book consists of 39 short essays that exemplify how interactions between inter- and trans-national interdependencies and domestic factors have shaped the dynamics of social policy in various parts of the world at different points in time. Each chapter highlights a specific type of...

Many scholars have argued that partisan differences have disappeared since the 1980s due to ever increasing economic globalization and the deepening of European integration. Using a new primary data set on public ownership that contains detailed information on privatization in 20 countries...

Dieses Handbuch gibt einen Überblick über den aktuellen Stand der Sozialpolitikforschung. Es beleuchtet aus vergleichender Perspektive die historische Entwicklung der Sozialpolitik, ebenso wie aktuelle Herausforderungen, Reformtrends und ihre Auswirkungen. Schließlich informiert das Handbuch...

The question whether and how warfare has influenced the development of advanced Western welfare states is contested. So far, scholarly work either focused on the trade-off between military and social spending or on case studies of individual countries. What is missing, however, is a systematic...

For many years, comparative welfare state research has been afflicted with a sort of methodological nationalism in the sense that countries were treated as independent units. In line with the recent spatial turn in comparative public policy studies, this paper examines with regard to three...