Political Partisanship and Welfare State Reform in Advanced Industrial Societies

By James P. Allan, L. Scruggs. 2004

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Political Science and International Relations, Public Administration

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Do parties matter in internationalised policy areas? The impact of political parties on environmental policy outputs in 18 OECD countries, 1970-2000 (2010, methodology): “The same statement applies to analyses in the fields of fiscal and tax policy (Blais et al. 1993; Brauninger 2005; Cusack 1997; Cusack & Beramendi 2006) as well as social policy (Allan & Scruggs 2004; Hicks & Swank 1992; Huber et al. 1993).”
How party linkages shape austerity politics: clientelism and fiscal adjustment in Greece and Portugal during the eurozone crisis (2015, background): “More recently, however, research has shown that parties display different stances towards retrenching the welfare state (Allan and Scruggs 2004), and that some parties can even be rewarded electorally for retrenching social programs (Giger and Nelson, 2011; Schumacher et al.”
Governments and unpopular social policy reform: Biting the bullet or steering clear? (2009, methodology): “Measuring the complexion of a cabinet by means of the share of leftist parties is conventional in the literature (e.g., Huber & Stephens 2001; Allan & Scruggs 2004).”
Economic Globalization and the Welfare State in Affluent Democracies, 1975–2001 (2005, methodology): “Allan and Scruggs (2004) emphasize that while left parties failed to expand the welfare state after their peaks in the early 1980s, right parties crucially instigated retrenchment after that point.”
Labour market- versus life course-related social policies: understanding cross-programme differences (2012, background): “Empirically, studies have predominantly looked at either developments in unemployment, sick-day and work accident replacement rates (Allan and Scruggs 2004; Esping-Andersen 1990; Hicks 1999; Korpi 2006; Korpi and Palme 1998, 2003), or aggregated spending categories (Garrett 1998; Iversen 2005;…”
Institutions and the prevalence of nonstandard employment (2015, background): “(and sometimes even unintended) impacts on different demographic groups (Allan and Scruggs, 2004; Estevez-Abe, 2005, 2006; Rueda 2005; DiPrete et al., 2006; Polavieja 2006; Palier and Thelen 2010; Eichhorst and Marx, 2011; Fleckenstein et al. 2011; Emmenegger et al., 2012).”
The Politics of Welfare State Retrenchment: A Literature Review (2006, result): “With respect to the level of income replacement rates of benefits, the quantitative findings are more in line with the 'old politics' thesis (Korpi/Palme 2003; Allan/Scruggs 2004).”
Path Shifting of the Welfare State: Electoral Competition and the Expansion of Work-Family Policies in Western Europe (2013, background): “6 huber and Stephens 2001; allan and Scruggs 2004.”