The World Politics of Social Investment: Volume II

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.

Introduction
1. Structural Constraints, Institutional Legacies, and the Politics of Social Investment across World Regions
Silja Häusermann, Julian L. Garritzmann, Bruno Palier

Part I: Western Europe and North America
2. Legacies of Universalism: Origins and Persistence of the Broad Political Support for Inclusive Social Investment in Scandinavia
Alexander Horn, Kees van Kersbergen
3. Loud, Noisy, or Quiet Politics? The Role of Public Opinion, Parties, and Interest Groups in Social Investment Reforms in Western Europe
Marius R. Busemeyer, Julian L. Garritzmann
4. The Partisan Politics of Family and Labor Market Policy Reforms in Southern Europe
Reto Bürgisser
5. Reforming without Investing: Explaining Non-social Investment Strategies in Italy
Stefano Ronchi, Patrik Vesan
6. The Politics of Early Years and Family Policy Investments in North America
Susan Prentice, Linda White

Part II: Central and Eastern Europe
7. "Nation (Re)building through Social Investment? The Baltic Reform Trajectories"
Anu Toots, Triin Lauri
8. Explaining the Weakness of Social Investment Policies in the Visegrád Countries: The Cases of Childcare and Active Labor Market Policies
Dorota Szelewa, Michal Polakowski

9. Explaining the Contrasting Welfare Trajectories of the Baltic and Visegrád Countries: A Growth-Strategy Perspective
Sonja Avlija%s

Part III: North East Asia
10. The Politicization of Social Investment in the Media and Legislature in North East Asia
Jaemin Shim
11. An Increasing but Diverse Support for Social investment: Public Opinion on Social Investment in the North East Asian Welfare Systems
Ijin Hong, Chung-Yang Yeh, Jieun Lee, Jen-Der Lue
12. The Quiet Diffusion of Social Investment in Japan: Toward Stratification
Mari Miura, Eriko Hamada
13. Politics of Social Investment in Post-industrial South Korea
Sophia Seung-yoon Lee, Yeon-Myung Kim

Part IV: Latin America
14. The Politicization of Social Investment in Latin America
J. Salvador Peralta
15. Social Policy for Institutional Change: Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru
Jane Jenson, Nora Nagels
16. The Politics of Conditionality in Latin America's Cash Transfer Reforms
Cecilia Rossel, Florencia Antía, Pilar Manzi
17. How Democracies Transform their Welfare States: The Reform Trajectories and Political Coalitions of Inclusive, Stratified, and Targeted Social Investment Strategies Around the World
Bruno Palier, Julian L. Garritzmann, Silja Häusermann, Francesco Fioritto