Across advanced economies, affordable housing shortages are pushing low-income voters
out of cities. Left governments frequently exacerbate these shortages by eliminating public …

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 …

Social democratic parties have experienced considerable electoral decline recently, which
has often been attributed to their rightward policy movement. This paper advances this …

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 …

While the drivers of preferences about tax progressivity and redistribution are well identified,
the study of willingness to pay taxes remains underdeveloped. This article uses the 2016 …

This paper is the background paper for the collaborative research project" the World Politics
of Social Investment (WoPSI)". The WoPSI project is aimed at studying the politics of social …

Why do some European welfare states protect unemployed and inadequately employed
workers (" outsiders") from economic uncertainty better than others? Philip Rathgeb's study …

Social groups often differ in vote choice, but differences vary significantly between elections.
Recent work argues that political parties shape group differences by the policies they …

The unprecedented geopolitical shift resulting from Brexit reflects deep socio-economic fault
lines within and beyond the UK. In many ways foreshadowing the US presidential election of …

The Trente Glorieuses, the thirty prosperous years following World War II, were
characterized by a continuous level of high growth in gross domestic product (GDP)(4% on …