@misc{SchwanderManowPalier, author = {Schwander, Hanna and Manow, Philip and Palier, Bruno}, title = {Welfare Democracies and Party Politics. Explaining Electoral Dynamics in Times of Changing Welfare Capitalism.}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, address = {Oxford}, isbn = {9780198807971}, abstract = {Europe's political landscapes are in turmoil, and new radical parties challenge the established political order. This book locates Europe's contemporary challenges within the longer economic and political trajectories of its 'welfare democracies'. The book argues that it is imperative to understand the specific structures of political competition and voter-party links to make sense of the political and economic turmoil of the last decades. In four distinct European welfare democracies (Nordic, Continental, Southern, and Anglo-Saxon), the political economy, the party system, and the structure of the political space are co-determined in a specific way. Accordingly, different packages of policies and politics and distinct patterns of alignment between core electoral groups and political parties exist in the four welfare democracies and shape the reactions of European welfare democracies to the current turmoil. This volume provides an analytical framework that links welfare states to party systems, combining recent contributions to the comparative political economy of the welfare state and insights from party and electoral politics. It states three phenomena. First, concerning electoral politics, the book identifies a certain homogenization of European party systems, the emergence of a new combination of leftist socio-economic and rightist socio-cultural positions in many parties, and, finally, the different electoral success of the radical right in the north of Europe and of the radical left in the south. Secondly, the contributions to this book indicate a confluence toward renewed welfare state support among parties and voters. Thirdly it demonstrates that the Europeanization of political dynamics, combined with incompatible growth models, has created pronounced European cleavages.}, language = {en} } @incollection{ManowPalierSchwander, author = {Manow, Philip and Palier, Bruno and Schwander, Hanna}, title = {Introduction: Welfare Democracies and Party Politics - Explaining Electoral Dynamics in Times of Changing Welfare Capitalism.}, series = {Welfare Democracies and Party Politics. Explaining Electoral Dynamics in Times of Changing Welfare Capitalism.}, booktitle = {Welfare Democracies and Party Politics. Explaining Electoral Dynamics in Times of Changing Welfare Capitalism.}, editor = {Manow, Philip and Palier, Bruno and Schwander, Hanna}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, address = {Oxford}, isbn = {9780198807971}, publisher = {Hertie School}, pages = {1 -- 26}, language = {en} } @incollection{ManowPalierSchwander, author = {Manow, Philip and Palier, Bruno and Schwander, Hanna}, title = {Conclusions: Electoral Dynamics in Times of Changing Welfare Capitalism}, series = {Welfare Democracies and Party Politics: Explaining Electoral Dynamics in Times of Changing Welfare Capitalism}, booktitle = {Welfare Democracies and Party Politics: Explaining Electoral Dynamics in Times of Changing Welfare Capitalism}, editor = {Manow, Philip and Palier, Bruno and Schwander, Hanna}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, address = {Oxford}, isbn = {9780198807971}, publisher = {Hertie School}, pages = {289 -- 318}, language = {en} } @incollection{HasselPalier, author = {Hassel, Anke and Palier, Bruno}, title = {The political economy of the welfare state: from power resources to varieties of capitalism to growth strategies}, series = {Handbook of Comparative Political Economy}, booktitle = {Handbook of Comparative Political Economy}, editor = {Regini, Marino}, publisher = {Edward Elgar Publishing}, isbn = {9781035327775}, doi = {10.4337/9781035327782.00025}, publisher = {Hertie School}, pages = {234 -- 251}, abstract = {The chapter reviews the recent advances in comparative political economy for social policy development. Welfare state research has long been divided between those who assume that social policy is adopted by governments against markets and those who emphasize the productive effects of social policies for the functioning of markets. Recently, we can observe a synthesis of both approaches in the framework of growth and welfare regimes. This new literature situates the welfare state as an important component of the political economy of advanced economies and assumes that governments situate their social policy reforms in wider growth strategies. The chapter develops the argument in four steps. First, we present a historical perspective on the welfare state. Second, we identify the contributions of the productive role of the welfare state and introduce the notion of growth regimes and their connections to welfare regimes. The next section presents five types of growth strategies and social policy reform. Finally, we address the political support for the welfare state in different growth regimes.}, language = {en} } @incollection{HadziabdicHasselPalier, author = {Hadziabdic, Sinisa and Hassel, Anke and Palier, Bruno}, title = {Growth and Welfare Regimes: A Quantitative Comparative Analysis}, series = {Growth Strategies and Welfare Reforms: How Nations Cope with Economic Transitions}, booktitle = {Growth Strategies and Welfare Reforms: How Nations Cope with Economic Transitions}, editor = {Hassel, Anke and Palier, Bruno}, publisher = {Oxford Academic}, doi = {10.1093/9780198947516.003.0013}, publisher = {Hertie School}, pages = {397 -- 440}, abstract = {Adopting a quantitative comparative approach with a focus on welfare spending, this chapter provides a standardized comparative analysis of the welfare regimes associated with each growth regime across space and time. It confirms the relevance of the five growth and welfare regimes identified by Hassel and Palier (2021 and Chapter 1 of this volume). It shows that expenditure on old age is rising across the board. At the same time, growing pressure to implement social investment policies appears to be playing a role in the reorientation of welfare spending. However, the pace of change is related to the pre-existing legacy and the balance of power between social strata, with dualized welfare regimes being the slowest to increase social investment and socially inclusive or market-based systems being the fastest to further extend their lead in this area. The latter are also the regimes with the largest increases in private welfare spending.}, language = {en} } @misc{HasselStephensvanKersbergenetal., author = {Hassel, Anke and Stephens, John D. and van Kersbergen, Kees and Palier, Bruno}, title = {Bruno Palier (ed.) A Long Goodbye to Bismarck? The Politics of Welfare Reform in Continental Europe, Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2010}, series = {Journal of European Social Policy}, volume = {22}, journal = {Journal of European Social Policy}, number = {1}, publisher = {Sage}, address = {Los Angeles [u.a.]}, issn = {0958-9287}, doi = {10.1177/0958928711425321}, pages = {90 -- 101}, language = {en} } @book{HasselPalier, author = {Hassel, Anke and Palier, Bruno}, title = {Growth and Welfare in Advanced Capitalist Economies}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, isbn = {9780198866176}, doi = {10.1093/oso/9780198866176.001.0001}, publisher = {Hertie School}, pages = {480}, abstract = {Growth and Welfare in Advanced Capitalist Economies takes stock of the major economic challenges that advanced industrial democracies have faced since the early 1990s and the responses by governments to them. It has three goals: firstly, to further our understanding of how political economies have transformed over the past decades; secondly, to analyse the contribution of governments to these changes, by looking at their growth strategies and thirdly, to highlight and analyse the role of the reforms of welfare systems in this transformative change. In a nutshell, this book maps and provides general understanding of the evolution of growth regimes in advanced capitalist countries. It identifies five main growth regimes in contemporary advanced capitalist economies (three export-led and two domestic demand-led ones). To do so the book combines a supply side approach to economic growth as advocated by the Varieties of Capitalism Literature (OUP, 2001) with a demand side perspective as the recent discussion on growth models has exemplified. It argues that all political economies consist of growth regimes, which are based on a set of institutions that shape the supply side of the economy as well as on demand drivers such as government spending and private consumption. Both supply and demand are heavily shaped by the welfare state which provides for skills through education systems and stimulates demand through high social spending and private pension funds. The book focuses on the analysis of welfare reforms as growth strategies pursued by governments in an era characterised by financialization and the rise of the knowledge economy.}, language = {en} } @article{HasselPalier, author = {Hassel, Anke and Palier, Bruno}, title = {Same Trend, Different Paths: Growth and Welfare Regimes Across Time and Space}, series = {Annual Review of Political Science}, volume = {26}, journal = {Annual Review of Political Science}, number = {1}, doi = {10.1146/annurev-polisci-051921-103030}, abstract = {The article reviews the recent advances in comparative political economy. It reconnects knowledge on growth regimes and welfare regimes by analyzing how growth and welfare regimes covary over both time and space. It underlines the fact that governments pursue different growth strategies to adjust to new economic environments, focusing in particular on welfare state reforms. Synthesizing the literature, we propose a definition of growth and welfare regimes that integrates different engines of growth as a way to track general trends in the evolution of capitalism. We analyze the main trends of three eras of capitalism: Fordism, neoliberal financialization, and the digitalized knowledge-based economy. We trace the various paths of change by identifying the five growth strategies governments have pursued to adapt their growth and welfare regimes to the new capitalist era. The result is not a typology of fixed types of capitalist models but a dynamic process of adjustment. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Political Science, Volume 26 is June 2023. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.}, language = {en} } @book{HasselPalier, author = {Hassel, Anke and Palier, Bruno}, title = {Tracking the Transformation of Growth Regimes in Advanced Capitalist Economies}, series = {Growth and Welfare in Advanced Capitalist Economies: How Have Growth Regimes Evolved?}, journal = {Growth and Welfare in Advanced Capitalist Economies: How Have Growth Regimes Evolved?}, editor = {Hassel, Anke and Palier, Bruno}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, address = {Oxford}, doi = {10.1093/oso/9780198866176.003.0001}, publisher = {Hertie School}, language = {en} } @article{HasselPalierAvlijaš, author = {Hassel, Anke and Palier, Bruno and Avlijaš, Sonja}, title = {The pursuit of growth. Growth regimes, growth strategies and welfare reforms in advanced capitalist economies}, series = {Stato e mercato}, volume = {2020}, journal = {Stato e mercato}, number = {3}, doi = {10.1425/97509}, pages = {41 -- 77}, abstract = {In this article, we develop an analytical framework to study how economies and welfare systems have been adapted to the common challenges of post-industrialization, financialization, and the knowledge economy. We show that, despite the global interconnectedness of modern economies, national trajectories of growth and policy-making remain distinct. Our explanation focuses on the pursuit of different growth strategies in contemporary advanced capitalist economies. Growth strategies are in large parts welfare reforms. Governments use the policy tools of the welfare state such as employment policy, housing policy, pensions, minimum wages and education as facilitators for growth. They pursue them in different ways depending on the growth regime their economies are embedded in. The articles starts with an overview of two key concepts used to build our argument: i) the complementary relationship between national growth and welfare regimes and ii) growth strategies through which growth and welfare regimes are reformed in the new era of globalization, ICT and financialization driven growth. It then provides an overview of five main ideal-typical growth regimes that have developed in advanced capitalist economies: the dynamic services export-led growth regime, the high-quality manufacturing export-led, the FDI-financed export-led, the financebased domestic demand-led and the public-financed domestic demand-led ones. Finally, it analyses the ties between growth strategies and welfare reforms and thus identifies five main types of welfare state reforms strategies: dualization of welfare, social investment, fiscal and social attractiveness, commodification of welfare, and social protectionism. Within the Eurozone, because of external pressure, the latter strategy has been transformed into a «competitive impoverishment» strategy for Southern European countries.}, language = {en} } @book{HasselPalier, author = {Hassel, Anke and Palier, Bruno}, title = {Growth Strategies and Welfare Reforms}, editor = {Hassel, Anke and Palier, Bruno}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, address = {Oxford}, isbn = {9780198866176}, doi = {10.1093/oso/9780198866176.001.0001}, publisher = {Hertie School}, pages = {451}, abstract = {Growth and Welfare in Advanced Capitalist Economies takes stock of the major economic challenges that advanced industrial democracies have faced since the early 1990s and the responses by governments to them. It has three goals: firstly, to further our understanding of how political economies have transformed over the past decades; secondly, to analyse the contribution of governments to these changes, by looking at their growth strategies and thirdly, to highlight and analyse the role of the reforms of welfare systems in this transformative change. In a nutshell, this book maps and provides general understanding of the evolution of growth regimes in advanced capitalist countries. It identifies five main growth regimes in contemporary advanced capitalist economies (three export-led and two domestic demand-led ones). To do so the book combines a supply side approach to economic growth as advocated by the Varieties of Capitalism Literature (OUP, 2001) with a demand side perspective as the recent discussion on growth models has exemplified. It argues that all political economies consist of growth regimes, which are based on a set of institutions that shape the supply side of the economy as well as on demand drivers such as government spending and private consumption. Both supply and demand are heavily shaped by the welfare state which provides for skills through education systems and stimulates demand through high social spending and private pension funds. The book focuses on the analysis of welfare reforms as growth strategies pursued by governments in an era characterised by financialization and the rise of the knowledge economy.}, language = {en} }