It has long been assumed that the historical legacy of Soviet Communism would have an
important effect on post-communist states. However, prior research has focused primarily on …

Skills and Inequality studies the political economy of education and training reforms from the
perspective of comparative welfare state research. Highlighting the striking similarities …

Why are people who live in liberal welfare regimes reluctant to support welfare policy? And
conversely, why are people who live in social democratic welfare regimes so keen to …

The welfare state may in many ways be seen as a particular trademark of the European
social model. An extensive set of social and institutional actors provide protection against …

Recent research has established that employment risk shapes social policy preferences.
However, risk is often conceptualized as an alternative measure of the socio-economic …

" This book is the final product of a five-year project funded by the European Research
Council (ERC) entitled" Investing in Education in Europe: Attitudes, Politics and …

Do family policies influence attitudes and behavior or are they merely reflections of pre-
existing attitudes? We consider the implementation of the Norwegian daddy quota, 4weeks …

Using new scaling methods and a comprehensive public opinion dataset, we develop the
first survey-based time-series–cross-sectional measures of policy ideology in European …

Analyzing the 2008 wave of the European Social Survey, this study assesses whether an
elaborate institutional theory is able to explain why levels of welfare chauvinism differ …

The euro crisis, several sovereign debt crises, the Great Recession, the refugee crisis, and
Brexit have all challenged Europeans' willingness to show solidarity with other European …