This literature review investigates the effects of public opinion on political outcomes in
democracies, focusing on Comparative Political Economy (CPE) research. Many CPE …

Radical right parties have gained access to government across Europe, yet scholarly work
on how they shape welfare states remains scarce. Therefore, this article examines how …

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

Liberalization is a perennial topic in politics and political science. We first review a broad
scholarly debate, showing that the mainstream theories make rival and contradictory claims …

The policy influence of political parties is a classic subject of investigation in political science
research. The typical conclusion is that parties influence policy only through government …

Despite growing scholarship on the politics of sociotechnical transitions, the role of
aparticularly relevant actor type–political parties–has been largely overlooked. To address …

When do political parties propose long-term investments? Electoral competitiveness should
be a key variable explaining parties' investment priorities: parties can be less responsive to …

Fiscal preferences of populist radical right parties (PRRPs) typically entail a combination of
lower tax rates and the maintenance of costly social spending categories, such as pension …

Country comparisons, often suffering from unobserved heterogeneity and obscuring
subnational variation, dominate the social policy literature. However, the subnational level is …

What is the relationship between social policy reforms and issue salience in public opinion?
Extensive research analyses policy feedbacks on policy preferences and the influence of …