Jensen, Carsten and Arndt, Christoph and Lee, Seonghui and Wenzelburger, Georg (2018) Policy instruments and welfare state reform. Journal of European Social Policy, 28 (2). pp. 161-176. DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/0958928717711974
Jensen, Carsten and Arndt, Christoph and Lee, Seonghui and Wenzelburger, Georg (2018) Policy instruments and welfare state reform. Journal of European Social Policy, 28 (2). pp. 161-176. DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/0958928717711974
Jensen, Carsten and Arndt, Christoph and Lee, Seonghui and Wenzelburger, Georg (2018) Policy instruments and welfare state reform. Journal of European Social Policy, 28 (2). pp. 161-176. DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/0958928717711974
Abstract
A core, but so far untested, proposition of the new politics perspective, originally introduced by Paul Pierson, is that welfare state cutbacks will be implemented using so-called ‘invisible’ policy instruments, for example, a change in indexation rules. Expansion should, by implication, mainly happen using ‘visible’ policy instruments, for example, a change in nominal benefits. We have coded 1030 legislative reforms of old-age pensions and unemployment protection in Britain, Denmark, Finland and Germany from 1974 to 2014. With this unique data at hand, we find substantial support for this crucial new politics proposition.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Blame avoidance, credit claiming, new politics of the welfare state, welfare reforms |
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Government, Department of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 21 Jan 2020 16:09 |
Last Modified: | 16 May 2024 19:29 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/26549 |
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