The theme for the ESPAnet 2015 conference is “The lost and new worlds of welfare”. The conference invites proposals for streams and papers that address issues across the full range of comparative welfare state research, from various disciplinary perspectives. Suggestions for Stream Themes -...

After the financial crash of 2008, much of the world’s population lost their faith in markets and capitalism has been unfairly portrayed as an enemy of the poor. Think will bring together some of the best speakers in the world to explain why this isn’t the case, and to highlight how the...

The 2015 SASE Annual Meeting seeks contributions that explore inequality, its structure, its sources, its ideological legitimations, and its politics. In keeping with SASE’s comparative and international perspective, contributions that examine these issues locally, regionally, nationally, and...