This research examines the dynamics of social policies in Iran over the 45 years following the 1979 revolution. During this period, welfare policies have fluctuated significantly and been subject to various contradictory analyses. Researchers often present conflicting views by focusing on...

While the World Health Organization’s (WHO) role in global health is well-documented, there is a notable gap in research regarding its influence on domestic health policy in Lower-Middle Income Countries (LMICs). This paper, therefore, explores the WHO’s impact on advancing the Universal...

This atlas and all its maps and figures are based on data that is collected within the Collaborative Research Centre 1342 "Global Dynamics of Social Policy" (CRC1342) funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) since 2018. Up to 15 projects were and are working under one umbrella with the...

Immigrant rights have been found to be better protected in democracies than in authoritarian regimes, but there is no systematic test of different explanations of why this is the case. In this paper, we attempt to fill this gap by investigating which features of democratic political systems are...

The long period of fast economic growth in China has created entrenched patterns of dualization in the labour market, and in social security. Chinese law calls for all employment to be formalized and covered by a relatively generous system of five social insurances, including one for...

This research note presents an open-source version of the ParlGov website and discusses the state of cross-national data on parties, elections, and cabinets. The ParlGov project is a prominent political science data infrastructure with information for EU and OECD democracies since 1900. The data...

Long-term care is a comparatively young but increasingly important social policy field. However, international comparative data on the topic are (still) scarce. Addressing this gap, this paper introduces a comprehensive framework for gauging LTC system generosity and presents our corresponding...

This working paper presents an overview of the gradual development of the Soviet welfare system from the October Revolution of 1917 to the country’s dissolution in 1991. It examines all major social welfare programmes in the Soviet Union and their generosity – understood as the combination...

How do inclusion and exclusion dynamics unfold in social security systems? Which groups are covered by social security, and in which chronological order are they included? This pilot study of a larger research project on Ideational Dynamics of Inclusion explores these questions through an...