Welfare Democracies and Party Politics

Philip Manow is Professor of Comparative Political Economy, University of Bremen. His research interests include comparative welfare state research, the German political system, European integration and Political Theory. Publications include In the King's Shadow. The Political Anatomy of Democratic Representation (Polity Press, 2010) and Religion, Class Coalitions and Welfare States, Cambridge Studies on Social Theory, Religion and Politics (co-authored with Kees van Kersbergen, CUP, 2009).Bruno Palier is CNRS Research Director at Sciences Po, Centre d'études européennes. He is studying welfare reforms in Europe. He is co-director of LIEPP (Laboratory for interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies). His publications include Reforming the Bismarckian Welfare Systems (John Wiley and Sons, 2009) and Globalization and European Welfare States: Challenges and Change (co-authored with Nathalie Morel and Joakim Palme, 2011).Hanna Schwander is a Senior Researcher with an Ambizione-Project on women's political alignment at the Department of Political Science, University of Zurich and prospective Professor of Public Policy at the Hertie School in Berlin. Located at the intersection between comparative politics, political sociology and political economy, her research is guided by an interest in how post-industrial transformations of welfare states, labor markets and societies affect various aspects of the political life.

• 1: Philip Manow, Bruno Palier, and Hanna Schwander: Welfare Democracies and Party Politics: Explaining Electoral Dynamics in Times of Changing Welfare: Introduction 2: Jonathan Polk and Jan Rovny: Welfare Democracies and Multidimensional Party Competition in Europe 3: Herbert Kitschelt and Philip Rehm: Determinants of Dimension Dominance 4: Johannes Lindvall and David Rueda: Public Opinion, Party Politics, and the Welfare State 5: Kimberly J. Morgan: Varieties of Electoral Dilemmas: Partisan Jousting over Welfare States and Immigration in a Changing Europe 6: Silja Häusermann: Social Democracy and the Welfare State in Context: The Conditioning Effect of Institutional and Party Competition 7: Alexandre Afonso and Line Rennwald: The Changing Welfare State Agenda of Radical Right Parties in Europe 8: Hanna Schwander: Electoral Demand, Party Competition, and Family Policy: The Politics of a New Policy Field 9: Ben Ansell and Jane Gingrich: Skills in Demand? Higher Education and Social Investment in Europe 10: Torben Iversen and David Soskice: A Structural-Institutional Explanation of the Eurozone Crisis 11: Bruno Palier, Jan Rovny, and Allision E. Rovny: The Dual Dualization of Europe: Economic Convergence, Divergence, and their Political Consequences 12: Philip Manow, Bruno Palier, and Hanna Schwander: 1. Welfare Democracies and Party Politics: Explaining Electoral Dynamics in Times of Changing Welfare: Conclusion

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