Books
van Kersbergen, Kees, and Barbara Vis. 2014. Comparative Welfare State Politics: Development, Opportunities, and Reform. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Exluding Chapter 6; 185 pages]
Downloadable articles, books and other texts
(DIGCANV=will be digitally available from the STV4313 Canvas website).
Bonoli, Guiliano, and David Natali (Eds.). 2012. The Politics of the New Welfare State. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (available digitally through the UiO library platform). [Chapters 1, 2, 5, 6, 13; 100 pages)
Brooks, Clem, and Jeff Manza. 2006. "Social Policy Responsiveness in Developed Democracies." American Sociological Review 71(3):474-94. 20 pages.
Busemeyer, Marius R , and Julian L Garritzmann. 2017. "Public Opinion on Policy and Budgetary Trade-offs in European Welfare States: Evidence from a New Comparative Survey." Journal of European Public Policy 24(6):871-89. 17 pages
Campbell, Andrea Louise. 2012. "Policy Makes Mass Politics." Annual Review of Political Science 15:331-51. 20 pages.
Castles, Francis et al. 2010. Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State. Oxford University Press. 2010). (available digitally through the UiO library platform). [Chapters 1, 5-6, 14, 23, 24, 29, 30, 35 38; 119 pages]
Ellingsæter, Anne Lise (2014) Nordic Earner-Carer Models. Why Stability and Instability? Journal of Social Policy 43(3): 555-574. [19 pages]
Elmelund-Præstekær, Christian, and Patrick Emmenegger. 2013. "Strategic Re-framing as a Vote Winner: Why Vote-seeking Governments Pursue Unpopular Reforms." Scandinavian Political Studies 36(1):23-42. 20 pages.
Ervik, Rune, and Skogedal Tord Lindén. 2015. "The Shark Jaw and the Elevator: Arguing the Case for the Necessity, Harmlessness, and Fairness of the Norwegian Pension Reform." Scandinavian Political Studies 38(4):386-409. 23 pages.
Fossati, Flavia. 2018. "Who Wants Demanding Active Labour Market Policies? Public Attitudes towards Policies that put Pressure on the Unemployed". Journal of Social Policy 47(1): 77–97.
Giger, Nathalie, and Moira Nelson. 2010. "The Electoral Consequences of Welfare State Retrenchment: Blame avoidance or Credit claiming in the Era of Permanent Austerity? ." European Journal of Political Research 50(1):1-23. 21 pages.
Goerres, Achim, Rune Karlsen and Staffan Kumlin. 2017. "What makes People Worry about the Welfare State? A Comparative Experiment". Manuscript. 20 pages. DIGCANV.
Hagelund, Anniken (2014) From Economic Incentives to Dialogic Nudging – The Politics of Change and Inertia in Norwegian Sickness Insurance. Journal of Social Policy 43(1): 69-85. 16 pages.
Hagelund, Anniken (2016) "The activating profession: coaching and coercing in the welfare services. International Journal of Public Sector Management. 29 (7). 725-739. 14 pages.
Kumlin, Staffan. 2007. "The Welfare State: Values, Policy Preferences, and Performance Evaluations." Pp. 362-82 in The Oxford Handbook of Political Behavior, edited by Russel J Dalton and Hans-Dieter Klingemann. New York: Oxford University Press. 22 pages.
Kumlin, Staffan, and Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen (Eds.). 2014. How Welfare States Shape the Democratic Public: Policy Feedback, Participation, Voting, and Attitudes. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. Chapters 1 + 15. 30 pages DIGCANV
Kumlin, Staffan, and Atle Haugsgjerd. 2017. "The Welfare State and Political Trust: Bringing Performance Back In." Pp. 285-301 in Handbook on Political Trust, edited by Sonja Zmerli and Tom van der Meer: Cheltenham, UK. 15 pages. DIGCANV
Morel, Nathalie, Bruno Palier, and Joakim Palme (Eds.). 2012. Towards a Social Investment Welfare State? Bristol: Policy Press. (available digitally through the UiO library platform) [Chapters 1-2, 6-8, 14; 65 pages]
Naumann, Elias. 2014. "Raising the Retirement Age: Retrenchment, Feedback, and Attitudes". Pp. 223-41 in Kumlin, Staffan, and Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen (Eds.). 2014. How Welfare States Shape the Democratic Public: Policy Feedback, Participation, Voting, and Attitudes. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. 18 pages.
Naumann, E. (2017): Do Increasing Reform Pressures Change Welfare State Preferences? An Experimental Study on Population Ageing, Pension Reform Preferences, Political Knowledge and Ideology, Ageing& Society 37, 2: 266-294, doi:10.1017/ S0144686X15001129. 25 pages.
Pierson, Paul. 1996. "The New Politics of the Welfare State." World Politics 48(2):143-79. 32 pages.
Ronchi, Stefano. 2018, first view. "Which Roads (if any) to Social Investment? The Recalibration of EU Welfare States at the Crisis Crossroads (2000–2014)". Journal of Social Policy. 17 pages.
Roosma, Femke, John Gelissen and Wim van Oorschot (2013) The Multidimensionality of Welfare State Attitudes: A European Cross-National Study". Social Indicators Research 113:235–255. 20 pages.
Röth, Leonce, Alexandre Afonso, and Dennis C. Spies (first view, 2017) "The impact of Populist Radical Right Parties on socio-economic policies" European Political Science Review. [22p]
Stephens, John D. 2015. "Revisiting Pierson’s Work on the Politics of Welfare State Reform in the Era of Retrenchment Twenty Years Later." PS: Political Science and Politics 48(2):274-78. 4 pages
Svallfors, Stefan. 2010. "Policy Feedback, Generational Replacement and Attitudes to State Intervention: Eastern and Western Germany, 1990-2006." European Political Science Review 2(1):119-35. 15 pages.
Vis, Barbara. 2016. "Taking Stock of the Comparative Literature on the Role of Blame Avoidance Strategies in Social Policy Reform." Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis 18:2(2):122-37. 15 pages.
Watson, Sara. 2014. "Does Welfare Conditionality Reduce Democratic Participation?" Comparative Political Studies:1-42. 40 pages.