Welfare state retrenchment is widely seen as a highly unpopular endeavour and, therefore,
as politically difficult to pursue. This assumption has underpinned most of the political …

In recent decades, economic globalization has grown significantly in affluent democracies.
Taking this as a point of departure, we review social science research on the consequences …

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

Case Study Research: Principles and Practices aims to provide a general understanding of
the case study method as well as specific tools for its successful implementation. These tools …

A large body of scholarship finds a negative relationship between natural resources and
democracy. Extant cross-country regressions, however, assume random effects and are run …

Many economic and social surveys are designed as panel studies, which provide important
data for describing social changes and testing causal relations between social phenomena …

During the last few decades, human dynamics, institutional change, political relations and
the global environment have become successively more intertwined. While increased global …

Increasing numbers of comparative survey datasets span multiple waves. Moving beyond
purely cross-sectional analyses, multilevel longitudinal analyses of such datasets should …

Much of the disagreement in the debate about globalization and its present or absent effects
on the welfare state stems from competing assumptions about the individual-level …

Abstract The Varieties of Capitalism literature offers two competing hypotheses on
institutional resilience. One argues that globalization promotes convergence towards a neo …