The World Politics of Social Investment: Volume II: Political Dynamics of Reform

ISBN-13: 9780197601457 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 520 str.

Bruno Palier; Julian Garritzmann; Silja Hausermann

Recenzje

The detail analysis it offers about the interaction between the four sets of factors-ideas, socioeconomic structural factors, policy legacies, and actors' positions and coalitions-will be a great help for the policy advisors, who move between government and academia, of both developed and developing countries.

O autorze

Julian L. Garritzmann is Professor of Political Science at the Goethe University Frankfurt. As a comparative political scientist, his research lies at the intersection of comparative political economy, political sociology, and comparative political institutions. He specializes in welfare state research, education and social investment policy, global social policy, party politics, and public opinion. Julian Garritzmann holds a PhD from the University of Konstanz, Germany. Before joining Frankfurt, he was Senior Researcher at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy, and held Visiting Fellow positions at Harvard, Duke, and Rutgers. His publications include The Political Economy of Higher Education Finance (awarded the German Political Science Association's Dissertation Prize), and A Loud, but Noisy Signal? Public Opinion, Parties, and Interest Groups in the Politics of Education Reform in Western Europe (Cambridge University Press) as well as several articles in journals such as the European Journal of Political Research, European Sociological Review, Journal of European Social Policy, Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of Legislative Studies and West European Politics. Homepage: https://sites.google.com/site/juliangarritzmann/ Silja Häusermann is Professor of Political Science at the University of Zurich. Her current research specializes in the fields of comparative welfare state research and comparative electoral research. She has been a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin in 2018/2019 and directs the ERC-funded grant "welfarepriorities" (www.welfarepriorities.eu), which studies the transformation of distributive conflict in relation with the transformation of European mass politics. At the University of Zurich, she is the co-director of the University Research Priority Programme "Equality of Opportunities". She is the author of The Politics of Welfare State Reform in Continental Europe: Modernization in Hard Times (CUP, 2010), and a co-author of The Age of Dualization: The Changing Face of Inequality in Deindustrializing Countries (OUP, 2012), The Politics of Advanced Capitalism (CUP, 2015) and Contention in Times of Crisis: Recession and Political Protest in Thirty European Countries (CUP, 2020). Homepage: www.siljahaeusermann.org Bruno Palier is CNRS Research Director at Sciences Po, Centre d'études européennes et de politique comparée. Trained in social science, he has a PhD in political science, and is a former student of Ecole Normale Superieure. He was director of LIEPP (Laboratory for interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies). He works on the comparative political economy of welfare state reforms. He was the scientific coordinator of a European Network of excellence RECWOWE (Reconciling Work and Welfare, involving 30 European research institutions or Universities, 190 researchers from 19 European countries). He was Guest Professor at the University of Stockholm, Visiting Scholar at Northwestern University, at Center for European Studies from Harvard University in 2001 and Jean Monnet Fellow in the European University Institute in Florence in 1998-1999.