This article highlights the limitations of unidimensional analyses in the comparative welfare state literature and emphasises the need for a more holistic, multidimensional approach incorporating social spending, welfare state outputs, and outcomes. To illustrate the utility of a...

While "ethically-motivated consumption" can be traced back to at least the 19th century, globalization has recently prompted renewed attention to the promise and limits of consumption to further broader ethical and political goals. This paper evaluates factors that promote political consumption,...

The goal of this paper is to establish if unemployment insurance policies are more generous in Europe than in the United States, and by how much. We take the examples of France and one particular American state, Ohio, and use the methodology of Pallage, Scruggs and Zimmermann (2008) to find a...

In this paper, we develop a methodology to summarize the various policy parameters of an unemployment insurance scheme into a single generosity parameter. Unemployment insurance policies are multdimensional objects. They are typically defined by waiting periods, eligibility duration, benefit...

Note: The following is a description of the paper and not the actual abstract as it appeared in the journal. A popular theme in the literature on environmental degradation is that environmental pollution is caused by social inequality. However, there has been little empirical testing of this...

International comparisons of national social policy rely overwhelmingly on programme spending ratios. However, there are widespread problems with this type of data as an indicator of trends in societies' commitments to social protection. This paper suggests an alternative approach to...