This paper provides an overview over the application of mixed models (multilevel models) to
comparative survey data where the context units of interest are countries. Such analyses …

This article asks how the most prominent recent changes in European welfare states are
relevant for citizens' political participation and attitudes toward politics, specifically citizens' …

This article takes stock of and reviews the comparative literature on blame avoidance
strategies in social policy reform to identify the conditions under which blame avoidance …

This important book builds a bridge between the literature on popular welfare deservingness
and social welfare policies. It examines the relationship between the two, exploring the close …

In recent decades, governments in many Western democracies have shown a remarkable
consensus in pursuing fiscal austerity measures during periods of strained public finances …

The Risk of Social Policy? uses a comparative perspective to systematically analyse the
effects of social policy reforms and welfare state retrenchment on voting choice for the …

Are electorally vulnerable politicians really less likely to support controversial legislation,
such as pension reforms? While the literature on welfare state retrenchment has …

We address the electoral consequences of profound welfare state reforms taking the
German Agenda 2010 as an exemplary case. The Agenda is usually perceived as having …

Do negative economic shocks change fiscal policy preferences? We examine this question
via the large COVID-19 shock, as the virus and ensuing lockdowns caused one of the …

The reform capacity of welfare states to adapt to the needs of post-industrial labour markets
has been a key question of the welfare literature for the last two decades. In a context of …