The Dependent Variable Problem within the Study of Welfare State Retrenchment: Defining the Problem and Looking for Solutions

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The Dependent Variable Problem in the Study of Policy Change: Understanding Policy Change as a Methodological Problem (2009, background): “This is the “dependent variable problem” uncovered by research into social and welfare policy change (Knill 2001 , Green-Pedersen 2004 , Kuhner 2007 ).”
A Conceptual Framework for the Comparative Analysis of Policy Change: Measurement, Explanation and Strategies of Policy Dismantling (2014, background): “Such an approach might entail severe validity problems under certain circumstances because changes in effects can actually occur without previous changes in policy outputs, and vice versa (Green-Pedersen 2004; Starke 2006; Knill et al. 2012).”
Governments and unpopular social policy reform: Biting the bullet or steering clear? (2009, background): “This question is important as the comparative literature on the welfare state suffers from a so-called ‘dependent variable problem’ (Green-Pedersen 2004) concerning how to deﬁne social policy reform (i.e., its theoretical conceptualisation) and how to measure it (i.e., its empirical…”
THE WELFARE STATE: A REGULATORY PERSPECTIVE (2014, background): “…clear definition of the welfare state from such doyens of social policy did not lead to a consensual definition and the debates and contributions for a clear definition and conceptualization continue with full vigor (Veit-Wilson 2000, 2002; Atherton,2002; Wincott, 2003, 2012; Green-Pedersen,2004).”