Handbook on the Political Economy of Social Policy (Elgar Handbooks in Social Policy and Welfare)

Front Matter
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Contents
Contributors
1. Introduction: what is political economy and social policy?
PART I THEORIES AND MECHANISMS
2. Historical institutionalism and social policy
3. The micro-foundations of social policy: attitudes and preferences
4. Ideas as explanations in social policy analysis
5. The resurgence of partisanship in social policymaking
6. Welfare state, rent seeking and interest groups
PART II METHODS
7. Within-case and process tracing analysis: reviewing challenges and opportunities for social policy research
8. The configurational approach in comparative social policy analysis: advances in capturing the impact of globalisation on social policymaking in moderate-n research designs
9. Studying the welfare state by analysing time-series cross-section data
10. Measuring welfare regimes across space and time: a preliminary review of methods and substance
PART III APPLICATIONS
11. The political economy of poverty and inequality
12. The political economy of fiscal welfare
13. Global taxation and national welfare states
14. How organized interests shape labour relations and social policies
15. The political economy of active labour market policy
16. The political economy of pension policy
17. Care regimes in Europe: a dynamic view of typologies and evolving long-term care policies over time
18. Political economy of housing policy
19. Local policy development
20. Quo vadis European welfare states: united in diversity or steering towards convergence?
21. Latin American social policy from the 2000s to the COVID-19 pandemic: a tale of successes and shortcomings
22. Political economy of the East Asian welfare states: partisan politics in social investment policies in South Korea and Taiwan
23. Europe’s comparative political economy of social investment reform in times of recession and pandemic1
24. How to balance sustainability and social policy?
25. Conclusion: the political economy of social policy – a brief state of the art
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