Comparative public policy is a blooming research area. It also suffers from some curious blind spots. In this paper we discuss four of these: (1) the obsession with covariance, which means that important phenomena are ignored; (2) the lack of agency, which leads to underwhelming explanatory...

De-industrialization constitutes one of the main structural transformations of Western economies since the end of World War II. It has been argued that de-industrialization leads to expanding welfare programs as a means to generate social protection against the risk of skills redundancy when...