Welfare systems across the OECD face many combined challenges, with rising inequality,
demographic changes and environmental crises likely to drive up welfare demand in the …

Despite its centrality in European politics, Christian democracy came to be the object of
systematic research only recently. We review the research that has emerged since the mid …

The refugee crisis of 2015 can be characterised as an exogenous shock, an immigration
shock, which according to institutional theory may create a window of opportunity for path …

Changing Welfare States is is a major new examination of the wave of social reform that has
swept across Europe over the past two decades. In a comparative fashion, it analyses reform …

Written by B. Guy Peters, a leading authority in the field, this comprehensive exploration of
the political and policy making roles of public bureaucracies is now available in a fully …

Welfare state bureaucracies the world over have adopted far-reaching digitalisation reforms
in recent years. From the deployment of AI in service management, to the 'opening up'of …

Machine generated contents note: Introduction. The political opportunities and constraints of
welfare state reform; 1. The welfare state: dynamic development, crisis, resilience, and …

This article explores the 'shrinking state', the potential erosion of the state from its customary
intervention in regulating economic growth and promoting redistribution and the overall …

This article challenges the dominant assumptions in the literature that cutting social policy
incurs voter wrath and that political parties can efficiently internalise electoral fallout with …

In June 2015, we launched the call for articles for this special issue in an attempt to catalyze
the rising awareness, both within the critically oriented and the broader organization studies …