In many high-income countries today, scholarly interest in the politics of class has coincided
with growing economic inequality, rising support for nonmainstream political parties and …

Income inequality and radical right parties have both been on the rise in Western
democracies, yet few studies explore the linkages between the two–despite prominent …

This book started from our discussions of a paradox. Yet despite its importance it has been
curiously little discussed in the academic literature. On the one hand, the last century of …

The transformation of night-watchman states into welfare states is one of the most notable
societal developments in recent history. In 1880, not a single country had a nationally …

The major economic story of the last decade has been the surge and collapse of house
prices worldwide. Yet political economists have had little to say about how this critical …

With the post-industrialization and flexibilization of European labour markets, research on
social and economic correlates of labour market vulnerability and weak labour market …

How do economic grievances affect citizens' inclination to protest? Given rising levels of
inequality and widespread economic hardship in the aftermath of the Great Recession, this …

Recent research has established that employment risk shapes social policy preferences.
However, risk is often conceptualized as an alternative measure of the socio-economic …

This article presents the Economic Security Index (ESI), a new measure of economic
insecurity. The ESI assesses the individual‐level occurrence of substantial year‐to‐year …

In recent decades inequality in the United States has increased dramatically, but policy
responses in terms of redistribution have been limited. This is not easily explained by …