Background: COVID-19 had a major global impact on education, prompting concerns about
its unequal effects and some impetus to reboot equity strategies. Yet, policy processes …

There is a broad consensus across European states and the EU that social and economic
inequality is a problem that needs to be addressed. Yet inequality policy is notoriously …

Public investment spending declined steadily in advanced economies during the last three
decades. Germany is a case in point where the aggregate decline coincided with growing …

Comparative research on school-to-work transitions mainly focused on country differences,
examining the variation in institutional design and its impact on shaping youth labour market …

In this paper, we investigate how different types of right parties affect immigrant welfare
rights across 14 countries (1980–2018) in a comprehensive mixed-method study. We argue …

Liberalization is a perennial topic in politics and political science. We first review a broad
scholarly debate, showing that the mainstream theories make rival and contradictory claims …

Extreme events, such as economic crises, natural disasters or military conflicts, can affect the
balance between centralisation and decentralisation forces across countries and transform …

Bildung ist laut Grundgesetz Ländersache–in kaum einem anderen Politikfeld können die
Länder ähnlich viel gestalten. Bildungspolitik ist damit ein zentrales–wenn nicht das …

Most political systems consist of multiple layers. Yet datasets are predominantly situated at a
single territorial tier, encouraging methodological nationalism, regionalism and localism. We …

According to partisan theory, variations in policy choices and outputs originate from the party
composition of the government studied. In this study, we take a novel approach to address …