Topics: - Cross-national comparison of welfare state regimes - Comparing social policymaking with QCA or Fuzzy-set Methods - Multi-level analysis of value survey data on welfare state attitudes - Comparing national panel data on social inequality

Topics: - Exclusion in education and the labor market - Income distribution, poverty and financial inequality - Living conditions - Health and wellbeing - Family formation and child care - The family as social, cultural, and economic capital, and educational attainment - Social protection and...

Suggestions for Stream Themes: 1. European Union and social policy 2. Comparative methodology 3. Pensions 4. Health care 5. Labour market policy 6. Family policy 7. Social services 8. Poverty and social assistance 9. Inequalities and social policy 10. Political economy of welfare 11. Migration...

This doctoral workshop invites papers dealing theoretically, conceptually and empirically with such pressures and with the ever shifting boundary between the public and the private in contemporary European societies. Papers might explore questions such as: - Business and welfare - State...

We invite PhD students with projects that deal with issues on or related to the Summer School theme to apply for participation. We value a multi-disciplinary setting and welcome students from a range of academic disciplines, like sociology, economy, law, political science and (European) social...