This article looks at how different electoral competition dynamics can result in differentiated
party positioning on childcare and family policy. Italy and Spain are compared using a most …

Abstract Since the Golden Age of the Welfare State ended, the male‐breadwinner family
model traditionally supported by conservative parties has been put under pressure …

Scholars seeking to understand political competition in Europe have proposed various
models of political dimensionality. While most scholars draw on data from the supply side of …

In this article, we propose a new framework to study the success of Green parties that links a
consideration set logic with a valence approach. We argue that issue entrepreneurship …

Purpose The article explores to what extent party politics has influenced the different
trajectories in Spain and Italy in terms of gendered active social policies (ASPs)(ie ALMPs …

Investments in education and retraining, or research and development have become
essential in today's knowledge‐intensive economies. While private actors often …

ABSTRACT The European Union's Recovery and Resilience Facility is an unprecedented
investment opportunity for economic modernisation. However, while the supranational …

Many Democrats hoped that a particular kind of identity politics–women's–would help Hillary
Clinton win the White House. In the aftermath of the election, some commentators …

This study analyses the influence of family policies on women's first and second births in 20
countries over the period 1995 to 2007. Welfare states have shifted towards social …

This article contributes to the study of the demand side of welfare politics by investigating
gender differences in social investment preferences systematically. Building on the different …