European welfare states are at the center of various crises. In contrast to earlier decades, current crises are often not crises of the welfare state, but rather exogenous developments that affect social policy making and/or need to be addressed by social policy measures. These developments...

We invite submissions of papers from PhD students who focus on one or several of the mentioned aspects. Country case studies as well as comparative papers on social investment from theoretical and empirical perspectives are welcome. We are especially interested in different policy fields (e.g....