Research Working Group on the Future of Welfare States

Welfare states and welfare state politics are undergoing significant change. This research group focuses on: changing social needs and preferences – including changing patterns of inequality – that might produce pressures for welfare state recalibration; changing patterns of social solidarity and support for redistribution or other welfare state “attitudes”, the new electoral and party politics of the welfare state; public policy and governance analyses of welfare states. We meet each second and third trimester.