This article reviews the literature on the causes of welfare state expansion in democratic
middle‐income countries across the Global South since the 2000s. After discussing …

Countries adopted a variety of social policy responses to reduce the social risks
exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which in some cases took the form of institutional …

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 …

Welfare is traditionally understood as social security decommodifying labour markets or as
social investment policies. In the domain of housing, however, welfare for homeowners is …

Over the past decades, the geography of comparative welfare state research has
transformed. Whereas scholars used to focus on a limited number of advanced …

Radical right parties are no longer political challengers on the fringes of party systems; they
have become part of the political mainstream across the Western world. This book shows …

To date, social long-term care insurance (SLTCI) systems have been introduced in six
countries globally: the Netherlands, Israel, Germany, Japan, Luxembourg and South Korea …

This article applies the concept of frames of reference to contemporary work and welfare
dynamics by focusing on the growing relevance of company welfare in Italy after the 2008 …

The aim of this Regional Issue is to generate new findings on social policy dynamics in the
Global South and on the transnational factors that shape them. It suggests that the concept …

Why did some European countries choose migrant labour to expand their labour force in the
decades that followed World War II, while others opted for measures to expand female …