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

Popular support for the welfare state varies greatly across nations and policy domains. We
argue that these variations—vital to understanding the politics of the welfare state—reflect in …

High and rising levels of economic inequality come at a tremendous cost to societies, yet the
public is often hesitant to confront these inequalities. Prior research has attempted to explain …

" 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 …

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 …

A robust finding in the welfare state literature is that public support for the welfare state
differs widely across countries. Yet recent research on the psychology of welfare support …

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 …

Over two decades ago, Korpi and Palme (1998) published one of the most influential papers
in the history of social policy discipline, in which they put forward a “paradox of …

In the face of accelerating global warming and attendant natural disasters, it is clear that
governments all over the world eventually have to take measures to mitigate the most …

Although economic inequality has increased over the last few decades, support for
redistributive policies is not widely accepted by the public. In this paper, we examine …