Resilience and robustness are exciting concepts for policy researchers. Their broad use in
other disciplines has motivated social scientists and policy researchers to adopt them in …

The responsibility for retirement income is increasingly shifted from the state to private
actors, in particular employers and employees. Many politicians, policy advisers, and …

Due to its popularity, the term layering is often used generically, and it risks being
transformed into a catch‐all concept. Layering has become synonymous with incremental …

Faced with growing policy complexity and environmental uncertainty, policymakers are
increasingly concerned with ensuring that policy processes retain functionality amidst shock …

From a social policy perspective, social protection against income loss due to old age, death
of the main breadwinner, and age-related disability is one of the fundamental social rights …

We are grateful to the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne and to the
Euro pean Consortium for Political Research Joint Sessions for en abling us to or gan ize …

Are electorally vulnerable politicians really less likely to support controversial legislation,
such as pension reforms? While the literature on welfare state retrenchment has …

In recent times, social protection has been one of the most popular instruments for promoting
human development in the Global South. 1 Understanding contemporary social protection in …

From the time of early industrialization onwards, the capital–labour conflict has shaped the
development of social and industrial citizenship rights. Organized capital and labour—that …

Whereas the call for a political science based study of older people and ageing is not new
(Cutler 1977; Heclo 1988), relatively little unified progress has been made so far. This …