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  • Growth Strategies and Welfare Reforms

    How Nations Cope with Economic Transitions

    How have advanced capitalist democracies dealt with deindustrialization? Did financialization affect these economies to the same degree? How does digitalization transform them? How do governments deal with the polycrises of Covid-19, inflation, and climate change? What roles did welfare systems and reforms play in these adaptations? This book seeks to answer these questions by exploring the ... Read more

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  • Welfare Democracies and Party Politics

    Explaining Electoral Dynamics in Times of Changing Welfare Capitalism

    Europe's political landscapes are in turmoil, and new radical parties challenge the established political order. This book locates Europe's contemporary challenges within the longer economic and political trajectories of its 'welfare democracies'. The book argues that it is imperative to understand the specific structures of political competition and voter-party links to make sense of the ... Read more

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  • Growth and Welfare in Advanced Capitalist Economies

    How Have Growth Regimes Evolved?

    Edited by Anke Hassel, Bruno Palier ...
    Growth and Welfare in Advanced Capitalist Economies takes stock of the major economic challenges that advanced industrial democracies have faced since the early 1990s and the responses by governments to them. It has three goals: firstly, to further our understanding of how political economies have transformed over the past decades; secondly, to analyse the contribution of governments to these ... Read more

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  • The World Politics of Social Investment: Volume I

    Welfare States in the Knowledge Economy

    Series series International Policy Exchange
    Welfare states around the globe are changing, challenged by the development of knowledge economies. In many countries, policy-makers' main response has been to modernize welfare states by focusing on future-oriented social investment policies that focus on creating, mobilizing, and preserving human skills and capabilities. Yet, there is massive variance in the development of social investment ... Read more

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  • The World Politics of Social Investment: Volume II

    The Politics of Varying Social Investment Strategies

    Series series International Policy Exchange
    Welfare states around the globe are changing, challenged by the development of knowledge economies. In many countries, policy-makers' main response has been to modernize welfare states by focusing on future-oriented social investment policies that focus on creating, mobilizing, and preserving human skills and capabilities. Yet, there is massive variance in the development of social investment ... Read more

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  • A Long Goodbye to Bismarck?

    The Politics of Welfare Reform in Continental Europe

    Edited by Bruno Palier ...
    Series series Changing Welfare States
    This book provides an extensive and comparative account of all welfare reforms that occurred during the last three decades in Continental European countries. It reveals unexpected important structural reforms, to be understood as the culmination of a long reform trajectory, analyzed in detail with the tools of comparative historical institutionalism. With these reforms, Bismarckian welfare systems ... Read more

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    This book has both empirical and theoretical goals. The primary empirical goal is to examine the evolution of industrial relations in Western Europe from the end of the 1970s up to the present. Its purpose is to evaluate the extent to which liberalization has taken hold of European industrial relations and institutions through five detailed, chapter-length studies, each focusing on a different ... Read more

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  • Growth, Crisis, Democracy

    The Political Economy of Social Coalitions and Policy Regime Change

    Edited by Hideko Magara, Bruno Amable ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Comparative Politics
    Since the global financial crisis of 2008, advanced economies have been making various efforts to overcome the economic impasse. While the contrast between the countries that have escaped from the crisis relatively quickly and those still suffering from serious problems is becoming clearer, a new economic crisis stemming from newly emerging economies has again impacted advanced economies. In ... Read more

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  • Poverty and the International Economic Legal System

    Duties to the World's Poor

    With a focus on how trade, foreign investment, commercial arbitration and financial regulation rules affect impoverished individuals, Poverty and the International Economic Legal System examines the relationship between the legal rules of the international economic law system and states' obligations to reduce poverty. The contributors include leading practitioners, practice-oriented scholars and ... Read more

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  • Austerity and Protest

    Popular Contention in Times of Economic Crisis

    Series series The Mobilization Series on Social Movements, Protest, and Culture
    What is the relationship between economic crises and protest behaviour? Does the experience of austerity, or economic hardship more broadly defined, create a greater potential for protest? With protest movements and events such as the Indignados and the Occupy Movement receiving a great deal of attention in the media and in the popular imaginary in recent times, this path-breaking book offers a ... Read more

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  • Causal Mechanisms in the Global Development of Social Policies

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access edited volume introduces the concept of causal mechanisms to explore new ways of explaining the global dynamics of social policy, and shows that a mechanism-based approach provides several advantages over established approaches for studying social policy.The introductory chapter outlines the mechanism-based approach, which stands out by modularisation and a clear focus on actors. ... Read more

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