N Potrafke - Journal of Comparative Economics, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper describes the empirical evidence on partisan politics in OECD panel studies. I elaborate on the research designs, the measurement of government ideology and why the …
Machine generated contents note: Introduction. The political opportunities and constraints of welfare state reform; 1. The welfare state: dynamic development, crisis, resilience, and …
N Potrafke - Economics of Governance, 2011 - Springer
This paper examines whether government ideology has influenced the allocation of public expenditures in OECD countries. I analyze two datasets that report different expenditure …
A fully revised fourth edition of a popular introduction to the comparative politics of Europe, written by a highly respected authority on the subject. This lively and thematically organised …
D Brady, A Blome, H Kleider - The Oxford handbook of the social …, 2016 - books.google.com
In the past 15 to 20 years, considerable progress has been made in understanding how politics and institutions shape poverty. Traditionally, studies of poverty, especially in the …
Will voters punish the government for cutting back welfare state entitlements? The comparative literature on the welfare state suggests that the answer is yes. Unless …
JL Garritzmann, K Seng - Journal of European Public Policy, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Much literature has analysed parties' influence on public education spending. We challenge this literature on theoretical, methodological and empirical grounds. It is standard to regress …
In 2005, twelve cartoons mocking the prophet Mohammed appeared in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, igniting a political firestorm over demands by some Muslims …
T Vlandas - Journal of European Social Policy, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
There are competing theoretical expectations and conflicting empirical results concerning the impact of partisanship on spending on active labour market policies (ALMPs). This paper …