Governing the Welfare Commons

Anton Hemerijck is Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the European University Institute in Florence. He has previously held positions at the Erasmus University Rotterdam and the Max-Planck-Institute, and was Director of the Scientific Council for Government Policy, the principle think tank in the Netherlands. Over the past two decades he has advised the European Commission and several EU Presidencies on European social policy developments. He is the author of Who's Afraid of the Welfare State Now? with Manos Matsaganis (OUP, 2024).David Bokhorst is a Research Associate at the European University Institute (EUI), specializing in European welfare state reforms from a multilevel governance perspective. His work spans a broad spectrum, from examining the EU's role in driving welfare reforms to exploring how cities foster social innovation. Before joining the EUI, Bokhorst served as an advisor on European financial affairs in the Dutch national parliament. In addition to his academic work, Bokhorst also works as a policy advisor at the Dutch Socio-Economic Council.

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• 1: Anton Hemerijck and David Bokhorst: Introduction: Social Investment as a Reform Compass 2: Anton Hemerijck and David Bokhorst: The Politics of the Welfare Commons 3: David Bokhorst, Sven Schreurs, and Francesco Corti: The European Union and Social Investment: From Intellectual Diffusion to Institutional Consolidation 4: Daniel Fernandes and Anton Hemerijck: Welfare Performance in a Life-Course Perspective for the Twenty-First Century 5: Manuel Alvariño and Margarita León: Riding Social Investment Waves: Partisan Agreements in Spain's Unstable Economic Currents 6: Luca Cigna: Rebalancing the Intergenerational Contract: Obstacles and Silver Linings on Italy's Road to Social Investment 7: Robin Huguenot-Noël: Short-Term Gains, Long-Term Pains: French Dirigisme and the Social Investment State 8: Fabian Mushövel: Successful Social Investment or Workfare Turn?: An Analysis of Stock, Flow, and Buffer Reforms in the German Welfare State 9: Maciej Sobocinski: Economic Growth as a Driver of Social Investment Recalibration?: The Curious Case of Welfare State Change in Poland 10: Ilze Plavgo, Johannes Karremans, and Olga Rajevska: Latvia: Welfare Reform in the Context of EU Accession and Emigration of the Working-Age Population 11: David Bokhorst and Janna Goijaerts: From Promise to Paradox: The Hit-and-Miss Social Investment Trajectory of the Dutch Welfare State 12: Steven Ballantyne: Social Investment in Ireland?: Piecemeal Reform and the Weak Beneficial Constraint 13: Heta Pöyliö and Johanna Peltoniemi: Balancing Acts: Renegotiating the Social Investment Contract in Finland 14: Moira Nelson: Disembedding the Swedish Model?: Social Investment-Related Reforms in the Early Twenty-First Century 15: Anton Hemerijck and David Bokhorst: Europe's Convergent, Yet Reluctant, Social Investment Turn