Who's Afraid of the Welfare State Now?

Anton Hemerijck is Professor of Political Science and Sociology in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute (EUI). He has previously held positions at the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam and the London School of Economics and Political Science, and was Director of the Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR), the principal think tank in the Netherlands. More recently, he was a member of the European Commission High-Level Group on the Future of Social Protection and of the Welfare State in the EU (2021 - 2023). He is the author of Changing Welfare States (OUP, 2013) and editor of The Uses of Social Investment (OUP, 2017).Manos Matsaganis is Professor of Public Finance at Polytechnic University of Milan. Prior to this, he worked at the Athens University of Economics and Business, in the Office of the Greek Prime Minister, and at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has been Fulbright Scholar at Harvard University and University of California Berkeley, and is currently Senior Researcher at the Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) in Athens, and a member of the Scientific Committee of the Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Foundation in Milan.

In a masterful account of how European welfare states responded to the Great Recession of 2009 and the Covid epidemic, this book provides an up-to-date assessment of the operation and performance of the European social model at both the national and European levels. It will be immensely useful to everyone interested in European social policy and the future of welfare states.

• 1: Anton Hemerijck and Manos Matsaganis: The welfare state's resolve 2: Anton Hemerijck and Manos Matsaganis: Welfare performance over the long 2010s 3: Anton Hemerijck and Manos Matsaganis: Welfare performance over the long 2010s 4: Manos Matsaganis and Andrea Parma: Buffering the Great Recession and the eurozone crisis 5: Ilze Plavgo and Anton Hemerijck: Under the spell of austerity: welfare reform across Europe between 2008 and 2014 6: Ilze Plavgo and Anton Hemerijck: Fostering resilience: Welfare policy change across Europe between 2015 and 2019 7: Anton Hemerijck and Manos Matsaganis: The legacy of the eurozone crisis 8: Francesco Corti and Anton Hemerijck: Social Europe in a bind, no more? 9: Anton Hemerijck and Manos Matsaganis: Towards a social compass for inclusive and sustainable growth