Italy and Belgium have been among the first western countries to face the Coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19) emergency, imposing a total lockdown over the entire national …

Labour market and unemployment policies in particular are rarely connected to issues of
environmental sustainability. In the present article, the link is examined by focusing on …

Do biographies of policy elites make a difference for the policy process and output? Leading
theories of the policy process focus on other explanations that mostly have been derived …

This article aims to uncover major social security system reforms that were implemented
following the recent financial and economic crisis of 2008–2010 and the post crisis period …

Technological change is hardly a novel phenomenon: humankind has always been
exploring new ways to improve human capabilities with technological resources and …

The onset of the economic crisis more than a decade ago posed extreme challenges to
health care systems that may now be repeated with the COVID-19 pandemic. The resulting …

This chapter summarises the difficulties of defining the term" welfare state". It focuses on the
theoretical discussion accompanying the so-called" established welfare states". The chapter …

This chapter analyses the extent to which the contemporary Nordic model is up to the
challenge in the current economic and demographic landscape. The chapter first theorises …

The study aims to analyze the livelihood strategies related to the labour market during the
coronavirus pandemic in the context of the material and income situation in Roma …

The article presents an analysis of social security discourses produced by contending
political actors in non-democratic Belarus. Initially, we outline the current situation of social …