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 -...

The organizers welcome proposals for exciting papers that deal with welfare and the welfare state in a broad historical and contemporary perspective from disciplines such as sociology, history, social policy, political science, political philosophy etc. Papers can be both theoretical and...

Distinguished international scholars lecture in thematic sessions on: Religion & the Welfare State, Immigration & the Welfare State, The Service Sector in the Welfare State, as well as Agency & Welfare State Development.

Topics: - Magnitude of the costs of conflict in cross-country analysis - Effects on health and schooling - Household coping strategies in (post-)conflict situations - The relationship between conflict and foreign investment - Accounting techniques for the calculation of conflict costs - Case...

It is a forum of debate among academia, practitioners, and policy makers. This year’s topic is "Innovation in Liberalized Network Industries - Markets and Regulation, Pull and Push". The sectoral foci are transport, energy, telecommunication & internet, water, waste, and the health...

This year’s topic is “New Challenges to Infrastructure Theory and Policy – Markets and Planning, Development and Sustainability”. The sectoral foci are transport, energy, telecommunication & internet, water, waste, and the health sector.