Purpose This paper examines the political budget cycles in emerging and developing
countries using a sample of 91 countries from 1992 to 2019. Design/methodology/approach …

Over the last four decades, banking crises around the globe have become longer. Along
with the unprecedented government responses to the Great Recession of 2007–2008 …

Motivation Do financial crises affect everyone equally? Despite the growing concern about
income inequality recently, mixed empirical findings have resulted in a long‐standing …

Many theories have been proposed to explain why social expenditures have increased in
industrialized countries. The determinants include globalization, political–institutional …

This study investigates both the short-and long-run impact of different types of financial
crises on the size of the informal economy, addressing the gap in the crisis-informality …

Despite expecting countries to rely on welfare measures in the aftermath of financial crises,
one should not ignore the possibility of fiscal retrenchments due to the constraints that those …

This paper explores teachers' conceptions of the ideal student, aspects of the hidden
curriculum, and how each varies by neighborhood-level social class. I used a thematic …

While existing scholarship predominantly focuses on the evolution of welfare regimes in
advanced Western economies, there has been limited investigation into the trajectories of …

The Repoliticization of the Welfare State grapples with the evolving nature of political conflict
over social spending after the Great Recession. While the severity of the economic crisis …

Social Democratic parties have been in crisis across Europe in recent decades. The once
dominant party family has struggled to adapt to the structural challenges of post …