Why are people who live in liberal welfare regimes reluctant to support welfare policy? And
conversely, why are people who live in social democratic welfare regimes so keen to …

The emergence of increasingly transnational geographies of governance presents a
challenge to geographers. Geographical work on policy transfer, which links this process …

Examining reforms that have taken place in the 1990s, this article explores the hypothesis
that the most distinctive characteristic of the Scandinavian model today is the “stickiness” of …

This paper examines the effectiveness of active labour market policies (ALMPs) in improving
labour market outcomes, especially of low-skilled individuals, by means of a pooled cross …

In 2011, the UK Coalition government introduced its flagship welfare-to-work
programme,'The Work Programme'(WP). Based on a 'payment by results' model, it aims to …

This article provides a new framework for analysing the processes through which policy
paradigms shift. It firstly argues that 'paradigm shift'is useful as a metaphorical …

The article argues that new economic ideas have exerted an independent causal effect on
policy change in three major areas in the Danish welfare state: unemployment insurance …

This article discusses the transforming capitalist welfare state and its education system, and
focuses especially on the Nordic model of welfare state and education in Finland. It shows …

Anders als in der öffentlichen Wahrnehmung findet Politik zum überwiegenden Teil fernab
von schlagzeilenträchtigen Ereignissen und historischen Initiativen statt. Tatsächlich ist …

It has been a general finding across Europe that very few job matches are facilitated by
public employment services (PES). The article explains this failure by highlighting the …