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  • The Politics of Welfare State Reform in Continental Europe

    Modernization in Hard Times

    by Silja Häusermann ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    This book challenges existing theories of welfare state change by analyzing pension reforms in France, Germany, and Switzerland between 1970 and 2004. It explains why all three countries were able to adopt far-reaching reforms, adapting their pension regimes to both financial austerity and new social risks. In a radical departure from the neo-institutionalist emphasis on policy stability, the book ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Cleavage Formation in the 21st Century

    How Social Identities Shape Voting Behavior in Contexts of Electoral Realignment

    by Simon Bornschier, Lukas Haffert, Silja Häusermann, Marco Steenbergen, Delia Zollinger ...
    Series series Elements in European Politics
    Western Europe is experiencing growing levels of political polarization between parties of the New Left and the Far Right. The authors argue that this antagonism reflects the emergence of a social cleavage between universalism and particularism. To understand cleavage formation in the midst of party system fragmentation and the proliferation of new competitors, they emphasize the crucial role of ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Beyond Social Democracy

    The Transformation of the Left in Emerging Knowledge Societies

    Edited by Silja Häusermann, Herbert Kitschelt ...
    Beyond Social Democracy examines the electoral decline of social democratic parties and how distinctive strategic moves might enable them to salvage different segments of their former electoral coalitions. Social democratic decline, however, does not imply the demise of basic tenets of the parties' programmatic appeals. Under the impact of novel twenty-first-century political-economic challenges, ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • The World Politics of Social Investment: Volume I

    Welfare States in the Knowledge Economy

    Edited by Julian L. Garritzmann, Bruno Palier, Silja Häusermann ...
    Series series International Policy Exchange
    Welfare states around the globe are changing, challenged by the development of knowledge economies. In many countries, policy-makers' main response has been to modernize welfare states by focusing on future-oriented social investment policies that focus on creating, mobilizing, and preserving human skills and capabilities. Yet, there is massive variance in the development of social investment ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Contention in Times of Crisis

    Recession and Political Protest in Thirty European Countries

    Edited by Hanspeter Kriesi, Jasmine Lorenzini, Bruno Wüest, Silja Hausermann ...
    This is the first comprehensive overview of the waves of protest mobilization that spread across Europe in the wake of the Great Recession. Documenting the extent of these protests in a study covering thirty countries, including the issues they addressed and the degree to which they replicated each other, this book maps the prevalence and nature of protest across Europe, and explains the ... Read more

    $93.49 USD

  • The World Politics of Social Investment: Volume II

    The Politics of Varying Social Investment Strategies

    Edited by Julian L. Garritzmann, Bruno Palier, Silja Häusermann ...
    Series series International Policy Exchange
    Welfare states around the globe are changing, challenged by the development of knowledge economies. In many countries, policy-makers' main response has been to modernize welfare states by focusing on future-oriented social investment policies that focus on creating, mobilizing, and preserving human skills and capabilities. Yet, there is massive variance in the development of social investment ... Read more

    $79.19 USD

  • The Politics of Advanced Capitalism

    Edited by Pablo Beramendi, Silja Häusermann, Herbert Kitschelt, Hanspeter Kriesi ...
    This book serves as a sequel to two distinguished volumes on capitalism: Continuity and Change in Contemporary Capitalism (Cambridge, 1999) and Order and Conflict in Contemporary Capitalism (1985). Both volumes took stock of major economic challenges advanced industrial democracies faced, as well as the ways political and economic elites dealt with them. However, during the last decades, the ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

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  • Causal Mechanisms in the Global Development of Social Policies

    Edited by Johanna Kuhlmann, Frank Nullmeier ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access edited volume introduces the concept of causal mechanisms to explore new ways of explaining the global dynamics of social policy, and shows that a mechanism-based approach provides several advantages over established approaches for studying social policy.The introductory chapter outlines the mechanism-based approach, which stands out by modularisation and a clear focus on actors. ... Read more

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  • Agenda Setting, Policies, and Political Systems

    A Comparative Approach

    by Peter John, Shaun Bevan, Will Jennings, Bryan D. Jones, Michelle C. Whyman, Sylvain Brouard, Emiliano Grossman, Isabelle Guinaudeau, Arco Timmermans, Gerard Breeman, Frédéric Varone, Isabelle Engeli, Pascal Sciarini, Roy Gava, Christian Breunig, Brandon Zicha, Anne Hardy, Jeroen Joly, Tobias Van Assche, Enrico Borghetto, Marcello Carammia, Francesco Zucchini, Laura Chaqués-Bonafont, Anna M. Palau, Luz M. Muñoz Marquez, Martial Foucault, Éric Montpetit ...
    What will gain the system's attention? "Explores the dynamics of a broad range of policy issues in different countries . . . an important scholarly contribution." — Political Studies ReviewBefore making significant policy decisions, political actors and parties must first craft an agenda designed to place certain issues at the center of political attention. The agenda-setting approach in political ... Read more

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  • Austerity and Protest

    Popular Contention in Times of Economic Crisis

    by Marco Giugni, Maria Grasso ...
    Series series The Mobilization Series on Social Movements, Protest, and Culture
    What is the relationship between economic crises and protest behaviour? Does the experience of austerity, or economic hardship more broadly defined, create a greater potential for protest? With protest movements and events such as the Indignados and the Occupy Movement receiving a great deal of attention in the media and in the popular imaginary in recent times, this path-breaking book offers a ... Read more

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  • The Gendered Impacts of Liberalization

    Towards "Embedded Liberalism"?

    Edited by Shahra Razavi ...
    Series series Routledge/UNRISD Research in Gender and Development
    In the last two decades public policies have reflected a drive for accelerated global economic integration ("globalization"), associated with greater economic liberalization. The outcomes have been largely disappointing, even in the estimate of their designers. Rural livelihoods have become more insecure, and the expected growth has rarely materialized. Insecurity is also etched into the growth of ... Read more

    $82.99 USD