The EU faces a disinvestment crisis. Its response was the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) that I first attempted to evaluate in a 2016 paper. In this chapter, I pursue the endeavor by analyzing three basic points of the EFSI, inasmuch as these are the main aspects that were found...

This paper shows how the rise of populist right-wing parties (PRWPs) can affect welfare state reforms in multiparty systems by drawing on an analysis of unemployment and pension reforms in Switzerland between the 1990s and 2000s, a period during which the Swiss People's Party (SVP) became the...