The transition from Fordist manufacturing to the so-called knowledge economy confronts
organized labor across the advanced market economies with a new and more difficult …

The Euro-crisis of 2009-2012 vividly demonstrated that European Union policies matter for
the distribution of resources within and between European nation-states. Throughout the …

How do economic crises affect political representation in times of constrained government?
Our paper shows that among voters salience of economic issues increases during …

In many high-income countries today, scholarly interest in the politics of class has coincided
with growing economic inequality, rising support for nonmainstream political parties and …

Researchers on inequalities in representation debate about whether governments represent
the preferences of the rich better than those of less affluent citizens. We argue that problems …

The isle of Ireland is both socio-politically and geographically divided. Northern Ireland and
the Republic of Ireland have distinct, siloed child protection and welfare systems owing to …

Existing research mainly analyzes mass attitudes towards the European Union (EU) from the
national and individual‐level perspective. This paper adds to this literature by focusing on …

How does the educational divide impact contemporary redistributive politics in the
knowledge economy? Traditional political economy models which see education as a …

Public investment spending declined steadily in advanced economies during the last three
decades. Germany is a case in point where the aggregate decline coincided with growing …

This article departs from the normative-theoretical literature on descriptive representation,
which argues that some disadvantaged groups need a special form of representation. Most …