Coordination through collective bargaining is recognised as an influential determinant of
labour market outcomes and macroeconomic performance. This article provides a …

This book has both empirical and theoretical goals. The primary empirical goal is to examine
the evolution of industrial relations in Western Europe from the end of the 1970s up to the …

Political scientists have long classified systems of government as parliamentary or
presidential, two-party or multiparty, and so on. But such distinctions often fail to provide …

The authors propose a synthesis of power resources theory and welfare production regime
theory to explain differences in human capital formation across advanced democracies …

This article investigates hypotheses generated by the veto players' theory. The fundamental
insight of this theory is that an increase in the number of veto players (for all practical …

We use data from the Luxembourg Income Study to examine household market inequality,
redistribution, and the relationship between market inequality and redistribution in affluent …

Workers' wages are not set in a spot market. Instead, the wages of most workers—at least
those who do not switch jobs—typically change only annually and are mediated by a …

The bulk of current research on the transformation of modern welfare states has focused on
the issue of retrenchment and, in particular, on how cash-strapped governments have …

The article explores the intersections between the different perspectives of institutional and
policy research and discusses the characteristic purposes and conditions of theory-oriented …

The causes of the expansion and cross-national variation in the provision of welfare state
goods and services are examined. Social democratic governance is by far the most …