Social policy responses to Covid-19 in the global south: Evidence from 36 countries

T Dorlach - Social Policy and Society, 2023 - cambridge.org
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 …

Maintaining the EU's compound polity during the long crisis decade

M Ferrera, H Kriesi, W Schelkle - Journal of European Public Policy, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The EU is still fragile after its long decade of crises since 2008, and its durability remains an
open question. New capacities were created during this time. But it is not clear how robust …

Nation-building, nationalism, and

A Alesina, B Reich, A Riboni - Journal of Economic Growth, 2020 - Springer
This paper explores how wars make nations, above and beyond their need to raise the fiscal
capacity to finance warfare. As army size increases, states change the conduct of war …

Shocks, institutional change, and sustainability transitions

P Johnstone, J Schot - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
The role of exogenous shocks in influencing transition processes is of significant interest to a
wide variety of research in sustainability science (SS). Such events disturb and interrupt path …

The Covid-19 crisis response helps the poor: The distributional and budgetary consequences of the UK lockdown

P Bronka, D Collado, M Richiardi - 2020 - repository.essex.ac.uk
We nowcast the economic effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and related lockdown measures
in the UK and then analyse the distributional and budgetary effects of the estimated …

War and Welfare in Colonial Algeria

G Koehler-Derrick, MM Lee - International Organization, 2023 - cambridge.org
A distinguishing feature of the modern state is the broad scope of social welfare provision.
This remarkable expansion of public assistance was characterized by huge spatial and …

Social policy responses to COVID-19: New issues, old solutions?

S Cook, MS Ulriksen - Global Social Policy, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Analysing a pandemic quintessentially requires a global lens. With COVID-19, a global
public health crisis has been coupled with devastating economic and social impacts–what …

Translating social policy ideas: The Beveridge report, transnational diffusion, and post‐war welfare state development in Canada, Denmark, and France

D Béland, GP Marchildon, M Mioni… - Social Policy & …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In the history of social policy in advanced industrial societies, the 1942 Beveridge Report
stands as one of the most influential government‐sponsored reports ever published. In this …

I servizi di welfare in Italia alla prova della pandemia. Uno sguardo di insieme

E Pavolini, S Sabatinelli, P Vesan - Social Policies, 2021 - rivisteweb.it
The article introduces to the thematic Focus dedicated to the impact of Covid-19 pandemic
on the Italian welfare system, and particularly on the policy fields chiefly characterized by in …

World war and welfare legislation in western countries

H Obinger, C Schmitt - Journal of European Social Policy, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
This article examines the impact of the two world wars on welfare legislation in 16 western
countries. We use Poisson regressions to test our hypothesis that war was a catalyst of …