This Special Issue examines the EU’s monetary, fiscal, and social responses to the sovereign
debt crisis and analyses how the European Union (EU) has affected welfare state reforms …

This Special Issue focuses on how EU politics, policies and institutions, all nested in the past,
have a bearing on welfare states in the context of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In this …

This article compares the welfare markets in primary health care and ‘welfare‐to‐work’ in the
UK since the late 1990s. A longitudinal comparison of two different policy areas enables us …

UK policy promotes third sector organisations as providers of NHS funded health and social
care. We examine the evidence for this policy through a systematic literature review. Our …

In this article we develop a typology of European Union (EU) integration to capture how, to
what extent and according to which policy aims EU involvement in Member States has altered …

What explains variation in governments’ policy choices to protect jobs and incomes at the
onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in Western Europe? Departing from existing literature that …

In this article, we show that Next Generation EU (NGEU) is mainly a response to the economic
and political imbalances left over from the Eurozone crisis. It is a pre-emptive intervention, …

Scotland presents a case where ‘social wellbeing’as a policy concept and a societal
aspiration has had considerable traction over the past decade. Wellbeing is now, according to …

… By deliberately breaking with the two-tiered tradition of methodological nationalism, this
book, edited by Caroline de la Porte and Elke Heins, delivers a pioneering analysis of the new …

Welfare states have been under pressure during recent decades, in the wake of challenges
such as ageing populations and changing family patterns. To support member states in their …