Population ageing, and the decline in the working-age population, represent a profound
global demographic shift. What political consequences do ageing populations have for the …

This article contributes to the ongoing debate on the forms and characteristics of social
investment policies and their potential trade-off with social security schemes by assessing …

Despite the large increases in economic inequality since 1970, American survey
respondents exhibit no increase in support for redistribution, in contrast to the predictions …

In the last few decades, measures to reconcile work and family life have risen in mutual
interaction with a rising rate of dual earnership. However, dual earnership has (to date) been …

We are grateful to the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne and to the
Euro pean Consortium for Political Research Joint Sessions for en abling us to or gan ize …

Continuous longevity improvements and population ageing have led countries to modify
national public pension schemes by increasing standard and early retirement ages in a …

Families and policies both are main vehicles of intergenerational transfers. Working-age
people are net contributors; children and older persons net beneficiaries. However, there is …

In all advanced democracies, policies related to the welfare state are the largest part of
public policy activity. Cross-pressured by globalization, deindustrialization, rising public …

The idea of targeting within universalism has been evoked frequently, usually as a best of
both worlds' strategy. The approach remains difficult to identify, however, because targeting …

Social scientists identify two core functions of modern welfare states as redistribution across
(a) socio-economic status groups (Robin Hood) and (b)'the lifecycle'(the piggy bank). But …