This article discusses recent research on party politics and the welfare state that differs from
traditional 'partisan politics theory'. The traditional approach states that left-wing and right …

This article explores the implications of the OECD‐wide decline of union density for earnings
inequality and income redistribution by looking at aggregate (country‐level) data. Over the …

This book has both empirical and theoretical goals. The primary empirical goal is to examine
the evolution of industrial relations in Western Europe from the end of the 1970s up to the …

This book serves as a sequel to two distinguished volumes on capitalism: Continuity and
Change in Contemporary Capitalism (Cambridge, 1999) and Order and Conflict in …

Welfare states around the globe are changing, challenged by the development of
knowledge economies. In many countries, policy-makers' main response has been to …

" Political equality is an essential political ideal and it is the cornerstone of moral
justifications of democracy. Most people would agree with the proposition that the interests …

Using data from the European Social Survey (2002–14), this article explores the effect of
union membership on support for redistribution. The authors hypothesize that the wage …

The Directive on Adequate Minimum Wages represents a watershed initiative adding
substance to the EU's social dimension. It contains two ambitious objectives: establishing …

Free movement is at once the European Union's most and least popular achievement.
Posted work, or in other words employer-organised labour mobility under free movement of …

Considering the contribution of the distribution of individual wages and earnings to that of
household incomes we find two separate literatures that should be brought together, and …