Introduction
1. Structural Constraints, Institutional Legacies, and the Politics
of Social Investment across World Regions
Silja Häusermann, Julian L. Garritzmann, Bruno Palier
Part I: Western Europe and North America
2. Legacies of Universalism: Origins and Persistence of the Broad
Political Support for Inclusive Social Investment in
Scandinavia
Alexander Horn, Kees van Kersbergen
3. Loud, Noisy, or Quiet Politics? The Role of Public Opinion,
Parties, and Interest Groups in Social Investment Reforms in
Western Europe
Marius R. Busemeyer, Julian L. Garritzmann
4. The Partisan Politics of Family and Labor Market Policy Reforms
in Southern Europe
Reto Bürgisser
5. Reforming without Investing: Explaining Non-social Investment
Strategies in Italy
Stefano Ronchi, Patrik Vesan
6. The Politics of Early Years and Family Policy Investments in
North America
Susan Prentice, Linda White
Part II: Central and Eastern Europe
7. "Nation (Re)building through Social Investment? The Baltic
Reform Trajectories"
Anu Toots, Triin Lauri
8. Explaining the Weakness of Social Investment Policies in the
Visegrád Countries: The Cases of Childcare and Active Labor Market
Policies
Dorota Szelewa, Michal Polakowski
9. Explaining the Contrasting Welfare Trajectories of the Baltic
and Visegrád Countries: A Growth-Strategy Perspective
Sonja Avlija%s
Part III: North East Asia
10. The Politicization of Social Investment in the Media and
Legislature in North East Asia
Jaemin Shim
11. An Increasing but Diverse Support for Social investment: Public
Opinion on Social Investment in the North East Asian Welfare
Systems
Ijin Hong, Chung-Yang Yeh, Jieun Lee, Jen-Der Lue
12. The Quiet Diffusion of Social Investment in Japan: Toward
Stratification
Mari Miura, Eriko Hamada
13. Politics of Social Investment in Post-industrial South
Korea
Sophia Seung-yoon Lee, Yeon-Myung Kim
Part IV: Latin America
14. The Politicization of Social Investment in Latin America
J. Salvador Peralta
15. Social Policy for Institutional Change: Bolivia, Brazil, and
Peru
Jane Jenson, Nora Nagels
16. The Politics of Conditionality in Latin America's Cash Transfer
Reforms
Cecilia Rossel, Florencia Antía, Pilar Manzi
17. How Democracies Transform their Welfare States: The Reform
Trajectories and Political Coalitions of Inclusive, Stratified, and
Targeted Social Investment Strategies Around the World
Bruno Palier, Julian L. Garritzmann, Silja Häusermann, Francesco
Fioritto
Julian L. Garritzmann is Professor of Political Science at the
Goethe University Frankfurt. As a comparative political scientist,
his research lies at the intersection of comparative political
economy, political sociology, and comparative political
institutions. He specializes in welfare state research, education
and social investment policy, global social policy, party politics,
and public opinion. Julian Garritzmann holds a PhD from the
University of Konstanz, Germany. Before joining Frankfurt, he was
Senior Researcher at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and Max
Weber Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy,
and held Visiting Fellow
positions at Harvard, Duke, and Rutgers. His publications include
The Political Economy of Higher Education Finance (awarded the
German Political Science Association's Dissertation Prize), and A
Loud, but Noisy Signal? Public Opinion, Parties, and Interest
Groups in the Politics of Education Reform in Western Europe
(Cambridge University Press) as well as several articles in
journals such as the European Journal of Political Research,
European Sociological Review, Journal
of European Social Policy, Journal of European Public Policy,
Journal of Legislative Studies and West European Politics.
Homepage: https://sites.google.com/site/juliangarritzmann/
Silja Häusermann is Professor of Political Science at the
University of Zurich. Her current research specializes in the
fields of comparative welfare state research and comparative
electoral research. She has been a Fellow at the
Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin in 2018/2019 and directs the
ERC-funded grant "welfarepriorities" (www.welfarepriorities.eu),
which studies the transformation of distributive conflict in
relation with the transformation of European mass politics. At
the University of Zurich, she is the co-director of the University
Research Priority Programme "Equality of Opportunities". She is the
author of The Politics of Welfare State Reform in Continental
Europe: Modernization in
Hard Times (CUP, 2010), and a co-author of The Age of Dualization:
The Changing Face of Inequality in Deindustrializing Countries
(OUP, 2012), The Politics of Advanced Capitalism (CUP, 2015) and
Contention in Times of Crisis: Recession and Political Protest in
Thirty European Countries (CUP, 2020). Homepage:
www.siljahaeusermann.org
Bruno Palier is CNRS Research Director at Sciences Po, Centre
d'études européennes et de politique comparée. Trained in social
science, he has a PhD in political science, and is a former student
of Ecole Normale Superieure. He was director of LIEPP (Laboratory
for interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies). He works on
the comparative political economy of welfare state reforms. He was
the scientific coordinator of a European Network of excellence
RECWOWE (Reconciling Work and Welfare, involving 30 European
research institutions or Universities, 190 researchers from 19
European countries). He was Guest Professor at the University of
Stockholm, Visiting Scholar at Northwestern
University, at Center for European Studies from Harvard University
in 2001 and Jean Monnet Fellow in the European University Institute
in Florence in 1998-1999.
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