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 purpose of this Ph.d.-course is to shed light on the concept and measurements of welfare. The course focuses on the following questions: Has the transition from the industrial to the post-industrial society changed our ideas and conceptions about welfare? What is the relationship between...

This ESPAnet Conference in September 2008 thus looks forward into the global future of cross-border influences in social policy, but also analyzes the earlier experience of diffusion of social policy ideas. The conference offers a forum for debating policy learning, and lessons and evidence from...