Handbook on the Political Economy of Social Policy

Edited by Bent Greve, Professor in Social Science, Department of Social Sciences and Business, University of Roskilde, Denmark, Amílcar Moreira, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Lisbon School of Economics & Management, University of Lisbon, Portugal and Minna van Gerven, Professor of Social Policy, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland

Contents:
List of contributors vii
1 Introduction: what is political economy and social policy? 1
Bent Greve, Minna Van Gerven and Amílcar Moreira

PART I THEORIES AND MECHANISMS
2 Historical institutionalism and social policy 15
Ian Greener and Martin Powell
3 The micro-foundations of social policy: attitudes and preferences 26
Marius R. Busemeyer
4 Ideas as explanations in social policy analysis 40
Daniel Béland and Ronen Mandelkern
5 The resurgence of partisanship in social policymaking 52
Ian P. McManus
6 Welfare state, rent seeking and interest groups 68
François Facchini

PART II METHODS
7 Within-case and process tracing analysis: reviewing challenges and
opportunities for social policy research 81
Hyungyung Moon and Antonios Roumpakis
8 The configurational approach in comparative social policy analysis:
advances in capturing the impact of globalisation on social
policymaking in moderate-n research designs 92
Stefan Kühner, Gibrán Cruz-Martínez and Nan Yang
9 Studying the welfare state by analysing time-series cross-section data 104
Federico Podestà
10 Measuring welfare regimes across space and time: a preliminary review
of methods and substance 117
Emanuele Ferragina and Federico Danilo Filetti

PART III APPLICATIONS
11 The political economy of poverty and inequality 130
Paolo Agnolin, Elena Marsegli and Zachary Parolin
12 The political economy of fiscal welfare 142
Emmanuele Pavolini, Matteo Jessoula and Marcello Natili
13 Global taxation and national welfare states 154
Priyaranjan Jha and Rahul Mukherjee
14 How organized interests shape labour relations and social policies 166
Benedikt Bender and Bernhard Ebbinghaus
15 The political economy of active labour market policy 179
Giuliano Bonoli
16 The political economy of pension policy 191
Bernhard Ebbinghaus and Tobias Wiß
17 Care regimes in Europe: a dynamic view of typologies and evolving
long-term care policies over time 206
Cassandra Simmons, Viktoria Szenkurök and Ricardo Rodrigues
18 Political economy of housing policy 219
Stephan Köppe and Michael Byrne
19 Local policy development 233
Elisabetta Mocca and Yuri Kazepov
20 Quo vadis European welfare states: united in diversity or steering
towards convergence? 244
Minna van Gerven and Bent Greve
21 Latin American social policy from the 2000s to the COVID-19
pandemic: a tale of successes and shortcomings 254
Camila Arza and Juliana Martínez Franzoni
22 Political economy of the East Asian welfare states: partisan politics in
social investment policies in South Korea and Taiwan 266
Ijin Hong, Fen-ling Chen and Shih-Jiunn Shi
23 Europe’s comparative political economy of social investment reform in
times of recession and pandemic 283
Anton Hemerijck
24 How to balance sustainability and social policy? 297
Milena Büchs
25 Conclusion: the political economy of social policy – a brief state of the art 309
Amílcar Moreira, Minna Van Gerven and Bent Greve