Korpi and Palme's (1998) classic “The Paradox of Redistribution and Strategies of Equality”
claims that universal social policy better reduces poverty than social policies targeted at the …

What do we see when we look at the political world across space and time? In large
measure, that depends on what we are looking for and the lens through which we look. This …

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Explaining the Diversity of Policy Responses to Economic Crisis Peter Starke Alexandra …

It is a long-standing puzzle whether or not changes in economic inequality lead to changes
in redistribution. However, there has been a lack of conclusive evidence about this …

Due to diverging levels of political influence of various income groups, political institutions
likely reflect the policy preferences of certain groups of citizens better than others …

Female gender and low income are two markers for groups that have been historically
disadvantaged within most societies. The study explores two research questions related to …

Contributing to the debate on the decline of the middle class, this article provides a
comparative and longitudinal analysis of changes to the relative position of middle income …

This article discusses public sector reform in North America and Western Europe. The
argument is made that recent comparative literatures have yet to adequately consider …

Social policy responses to the recent economic crisis have varied considerably across
advanced capitalist countries. This study aims to explain this cross-national diversity through …

Based on empirical findings from a comparative study on welfare state responses to the four
major economic shocks (the 1970s oil shocks, the early 1990s recession, the 2008 financial …