Projects
Ideas, international policy networks, and political transfer in the development of the modern welfare state. An intellectual history of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) between 1930 and 1980 Ghent University
This research focusses on the intellectual role of the International Labour Organisation in the international socio-political debate on the origin and development of the Keynesian welfare state between 1930 and the 1970s. By using the concept of 'political transfer' the ILO will be studied as an idea-generating center, a laboratory of knowledge where new models, paradigms and ideas on the welfare state were generated, exchanged and ...
An empirical investigation into the middle-and higher-income bias in social spending and welfare state redistribution across 20 countries, 1985-2013 KU Leuven
An empirical investigation into the middle-and higher-income bias in social spending and welfare state redistribution across 20 countries, 1985-2013 KU Leuven
Welfare states that are effective in reducing poverty have high levels of social spending. Yet, changes in social spending cannot explain changes in poverty outcomes. Inequalities increased almost everywhere and so did levels of social spending, but in many countries social spending became less effective in keeping poverty at bay. So, then, why did social spending became less pro-poor in some countries but not in others? The central ...
Sabbatical Marc Swyngedouw: The redesigned political ideological space: socio economic and urban transformation processes, glocalization, transforming welfare state provisions and (re)new(ed) cleavages. KU Leuven
In twenty years' time, the political power space in Flanders has been completely distorted. The three traditional parties (CD&V, Open-VLD and sp.a) still accounted for 38.6% in the Flemish elections of 2019.
In 1999 they still accounted for 60%. The proportion of voters that the three traditional parties were able to win in the 1991 parliamentary elections in Flanders – the start of the ISPO election survey – was 66%. The ...
The crisis and reorientation of European welfare states since the 1970s: what consequences for income distribution, financial poverty and social exclusion? University of Antwerp
Subjective well-being. Understanding of differences in subjective well-being: a description and explanation of difference sin subjective well-being in West-European welfare states Ghent University
The project's general aim is to contribute to a sociological understanding of differences in individuals' subjective well-being within the general population of West-European welfare staes, by describing, explaining and predicting well-being on the basis of several sociological theories that social trust, well-being strategies en contextual charactersitics of welfare states. We analayse the available survey data using multivariate and ...
Disappointing poverty rates and immigration flows in Western welfare states KU Leuven
A cross-national investigation into the poverty rates of western welfare states and people with a migration background among these countries.
Gender differences in depression: a comparison of European welfare states. Ghent University
The aim of the research proposal is to develop a measurement instrument to assess the degree to which men and women are encourages to engage in domestic tasks. The association with gender differences in depression is then assessed.