This paper surveys the emergence, diffusion, merits, and critics of social investment as a
distinctive welfare policy paradigm. After revisiting its intellectual roots, the article …

This review article and special issue introduction argues that studying the relationship
between the populist radical right and the welfare state requires bridging literatures that …

Comparative research on income inequality has produced several frameworks to study the
institutional determinants of income stratification. In contrast, no such framework and much …

This book builds an essential bridge between climate change and social policy. Combining
ethics and human need theory with political economy and climate science, it offers a long …

Co-production and co-creation occur when citizens participate actively in delivering and
designing the services they receive. It has come increasingly onto the agenda of …

Employment relations in advanced, post-industrial democracies have become increasingly
insecure and uncertain as the risks associated with work are being shifted from employers …

The Uses of Social Investment provides the first study of the welfare state, under the new
post-crisis austerity context and associated crisis management politics, to take stock of the …

This book examines contemporary changes in labor market institutions in the United States,
Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and the Netherlands, focusing on developments in industrial …

This book serves as a sequel to two distinguished volumes on capitalism: Continuity and
Change in Contemporary Capitalism (Cambridge, 1999) and Order and Conflict in …

This contribution delineates the sui generis paradigmatic portent of the social investment
perspective. After theoretically defining the notion of a policy paradigm in welfare state …