Converging Worlds of Welfare?
British and German Social Policy in the 21st Century
Jochen Clasen
Author Information
Jochen Clasen gained his Diploma in Sociology from the Free University of Berlin in 1988 and his PhD in Sociology and Social Policy from the University of Edinburgh in 1992. Prof. Clasen is an expert in cross-national research on social security and unemployment policy, and has particular expertise in social policy comparisons between Germany and the UK. He has published widely on methodological aspects of cross-national research and is joint editor of the Journal of European Social Policy. Recent books include Investigating Welfare State Change co-edited with Nico Siegel (Edward Elgar, 2007), and Reforming European Welfare States: Germany and the United Kingdom Compared (OUP, 2005).
Contributors:
Paul Bridgen, University of Southampton
Christoph Burkhardt, Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS)
Jochen Clasen, University of Edinburgh
Mary Daly, Queen's University, Belfast
Timo Fleckenstein, London School of Economics and Political Science
Ann-Kathrin Jüttner, University of Göttingen
Sigrid Leitner, University of Applied Sciences, Cologne
Kathrin Leuze, Free University of Berlin
Rose Martin, Institute for Employment Studies, Brighton
Traute Meyer, University of Southampton
Anneli Rüling, sociologist and political scientist in Berlin
Steffen Mau, University of Bremen
Martin Seeleib-Kaiser, Green Templeton College, University of Oxford
Peter Taylor-Gooby, University of Kent
Lisa Warth, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
Michaela Willert, Free University of Berlin