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

‘The Handbook should be a valuable resource for researchers, teachers and students, providing them with a useful overview of the state of the art, bringing together leading research and researchers. For academics teaching senior classes in social policy, political economy or comparative analysis, the Handbook offers useful tools for analysis.’

• Contents:List of contributors vii1 Introduction: what is political economy and social policy? 1Bent Greve, Minna Van Gerven and Amílcar MoreiraPART I THEORIES AND MECHANISMS2 Historical institutionalism and social policy 15Ian Greener and Martin Powell3 The micro-foundations of social policy: attitudes and preferences 26Marius R. Busemeyer4 Ideas as explanations in social policy analysis 40Daniel Béland and Ronen Mandelkern5 The resurgence of partisanship in social policymaking 52Ian P. McManus6 Welfare state, rent seeking and interest groups 68François FacchiniPART II METHODS7 Within-case and process tracing analysis: reviewing challenges andopportunities for social policy research 81Hyungyung Moon and Antonios Roumpakis8 The configurational approach in comparative social policy analysis:advances in capturing the impact of globalisation on socialpolicymaking in moderate-n research designs 92Stefan Kühner, Gibrán Cruz-Martínez and Nan Yang9 Studying the welfare state by analysing time-series cross-section data 104Federico Podestà10 Measuring welfare regimes across space and time: a preliminary reviewof methods and substance 117Emanuele Ferragina and Federico Danilo FilettiPART III APPLICATIONS11 The political economy of poverty and inequality 130Paolo Agnolin, Elena Marsegli and Zachary Parolin12 The political economy of fiscal welfare 142Emmanuele Pavolini, Matteo Jessoula and Marcello Natili13 Global taxation and national welfare states 154Priyaranjan Jha and Rahul Mukherjee14 How organized interests shape labour relations and social policies 166Benedikt Bender and Bernhard Ebbinghaus15 The political economy of active labour market policy 179Giuliano Bonoli16 The political economy of pension policy 191Bernhard Ebbinghaus and Tobias Wiß17 Care regimes in Europe: a dynamic view of typologies and evolvinglong-term care policies over time 206Cassandra Simmons, Viktoria Szenkurök and Ricardo Rodrigues18 Political economy of housing policy 219Stephan Köppe and Michael Byrne19 Local policy development 233Elisabetta Mocca and Yuri Kazepov20 Quo vadis European welfare states: united in diversity or steeringtowards convergence? 244Minna van Gerven and Bent Greve21 Latin American social policy from the 2000s to the COVID-19pandemic: a tale of successes and shortcomings 254Camila Arza and Juliana Martínez Franzoni22 Political economy of the East Asian welfare states: partisan politics insocial investment policies in South Korea and Taiwan 266Ijin Hong, Fen-ling Chen and Shih-Jiunn Shi23 Europe’s comparative political economy of social investment reform intimes of recession and pandemic 283Anton Hemerijck24 How to balance sustainability and social policy? 297Milena Büchs25 Conclusion: the political economy of social policy – a brief state of the art 309Amílcar Moreira, Minna Van Gerven and Bent Greve