This paper aims to describe and explain different welfare state responses to three major economic crises: the Oil Shocks of the 1970s, the worldwide recession of the 1990s and the current Financial Crisis. Policy developments in three small open economies – Sweden, the Netherlands and...

This paper critically discusses the status of narrative in political science methods. After reviewing the literature for existing definitions of the concept of narrative, it provides a new definition that serves as the background for the subsequent discussion of the merits of narrative as a...