Changing Welfare States is is a major new examination of the wave of social reform that has
swept across Europe over the past two decades. In a comparative fashion, it analyses reform …

A comprehensive introduction to public policy and the policy cycle, the fully revised second
edition of this popular textbook offers a practical guide to the topic while remaining …

This paper proposes an analytical framework for understanding the inhibiting factors in
scaling the social impact of social entrepreneurial organizations (SEOs). The framework …

For many years, comparative welfare state research has followed a 'methodological
nationalism'in the sense that countries were treated as independent units. Yet the recent …

The Covid-19 pandemic has prompted manifold social policy responses all around the
world. This article presents the findings of a meta-analysis of thirty-six in-depth country …

In Europe, the transport sector accounts for more than 27% of total CO 2 emissions and,
within this sector, road transport is by far the largest polluter. This fact has placed road …

This article is about the transnational movement of policy discourses on childcare. It
considers whether the spread of neoliberal ideas with their emphasis on marketisation, on …

Increasing societal heterogeneity, changing demographics, and increasing public debt and
fiscal constraints have recently challenged traditional “regime” approaches to welfare state …

We conceptualise and measure welfare state change across 21 high‐income countries as a
continuum delineated by a double movement, that is, the combined change of compensatory …

The Euro-crisis of 2009-2012 vividly demonstrated that European Union policies matter for
the distribution of resources within and between European nation-states. Throughout the …