Social investment has recently received much attention among policy-makers and welfare
state scholars, but the existing literature remains focused on policy-making on the macro …

The welfare state is still very much central in people's everyday lives. The welfare state is at
the same time contested and debated, and has often been argued to be in a crisis not only in …

Families and policies both are main vehicles of intergenerational transfers. Working-age
people are net contributors; children and older persons net beneficiaries. However, there is …

This essay reviews the policy‐oriented literature on economic inequality in wealthy countries
published from 2008 to 2018. We focus on this decade because it is a period bookended by …

This article asks whether the novel EU approach to member states' economic adjustment
strategies constitutes a 'social investment turn'by the Italian and Spanish welfare states. The …

Given that many factors bar the way to the democratic and social ambitions of mainstream co-
production being achieved essentially through evolution, it makes sense to frame the …

Early childhood education and care (ECEC) is seen as a crucial element of the social
investment state. Whilst the extent of social investment in ECEC depends on financial …

Spiralling inequality since the 1970s and the global financial crisis of 2008 have been the
two most important challenges to democratic capitalism since the Great Depression. To …

Providing a comprehensive and authoritative analyses of the impact of the Eurozone crisis
on the European social dimension since 2010-understood as the European Union's (EU) …

Te overarching ambition of the research project leading up to this book and its twin volume
has been to map and explain the way in which welfare states in a variety of world regions …