The social investment approach has been advocated as a blueprint for recasting European
welfare states since the years of the Lisbon Strategy. After the Euro crisis squeezed the fiscal …

This paper provides a historical overview of comparative political economy as an
interdisciplinary field of study anchored in political science and focused on advanced …

This chapter shows that welfare reforms are institutionally and politically linked to countries'
growth strategies, ie the policies implemented by governments to boost growth and jobs …

A bold history of the rise of central banks, showing how institutions designed to steady the
ship of global finance have instead become as destabilizing as they are dominant. While …

Cross-country variation in the outcomes of public sector wage-setting (PSWS) persists in
Europe. Received wisdom from the neo-corporatist scholarship attributes it to the …

The COVID-19 pandemic has revived discussions about universal basic income (UBI) as a
potential crisis response. Yet despite favorable circumstances, little actual policy change in …

Do gender quota laws-policies that mandate women's inclusion on parties' candidate slates-
affect policy outcomes? Making Gender Salient tackles this crucial question by offering a …

Abstract The discussion on 'New Approaches to Political Economy (PE)'gives us a state-of-
the-art overview of the main theoretical and conceptual developments within the concept of …

Recent scholarship has explored the sharp distinction been left-leaning inclusionary
populism in the recent Latin American experience and right-leaning exclusionary populism …

Macro‐economic policy coordination remains a challenge in the EU. The European
Semester was designed to help facilitate more coordination. In the area of wage policies, it …