All Stories

  1. The Lay of the Land: Information Capacity and the Modern State
  2. Immigration policy and the modern welfare state, 1880–1920
  3. The martial origins of democracy: a global study of military conscription and suffrage extensions since the Napoleonic wars
  4. Commitment Problems in Coalitions: A New Look at the Fiscal Policies Of Multiparty Governments
  5. The electoral consequences of two great crises
  6. Party choice in hard times: Group-specific responses to economic downturns in Sweden
  7. The Political Origins of Primary Education Systems: Ideology, Institutions, and Interdenominational Conflict in an Era of Nation-Building
  8. Union Density and Political Strikes
  9. The Insider–Outsider Dilemma
  10. The Political Consequences of the Great Depression and the Great Recession: Remarkably Similar
  11. Corruption, Bureaucratic Failure and Social Policy Priorities
  12. Do the Poor Count? Democratic Institutions and Accountability in a Context of Poverty. By Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010. 248p. $69.95 cloth, $34.95 paper.
  13. Insider-Outsider Politics
  14. The Political Foundations of Trust and Distrust: Reforms and Protests in France
  15. Mass Unemployment and the State
  16. The Unemployment Problem in Europe
  17. The Threat of Unemployment
  18. New Regimes
  19. The Fact of Unemployment
  20. Conclusions
  21. The Real but Limited Influence of Expert Ideas
  22. Party Competition and the Resilience of Corporatism
  23. Why No Religious Politics? The Secularization of Poor Relief and Primary Education in Denmark and Sweden
  24. The Politics of Purpose: Swedish Economic Policy after the Golden Age
  25. Sweden: The Fall of the Strong State
  26. Policy reform and the decline of corporatism in Sweden
  27. The Fall of the Strong State
  28. Economic crises as political opportunities