The World Politics of Social Investment: Volume II
The Politics of Varying Social Investment Strategies
Julian L. Garritzmann, Silja Häusermann, and Bruno Palier
Author Information
Julian L. Garritzmann, Professor of Political Science, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany, Silja Häusermann, Professor of Political Science, University of Zurich, Switzerland, and Bruno Palier, CNRS Research Director at Sciences Po, Centre d'études européennes et de politique comparée
Julian L. Garritzmann is Professor of Political Science at the Goethe University Frankfurt. As a comparative political scientist, his research lies at the intersection of comparative political economy, political sociology, and comparative political institutions. He specializes in welfare state research, education and social investment policy, global social policy, party politics, and public opinion. Julian Garritzmann holds a PhD from the University of Konstanz, Germany. Before joining Frankfurt, he was Senior Researcher at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy, and held Visiting Fellow positions at Harvard, Duke, and Rutgers. His publications include The Political Economy of Higher Education Finance (awarded the German Political Science Association's Dissertation Prize), and A Loud, but Noisy Signal? Public Opinion, Parties, and Interest Groups in the Politics of Education Reform in Western Europe (Cambridge
University Press) as well as several articles in journals such as the European Journal of Political Research, European Sociological Review, Journal of European Social Policy, Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of Legislative Studies and West European Politics. Homepage: https://sites.google.com/site/juliangarritzmann/ Silja Häusermann is Professor of Political Science at the University of Zurich. Her current research specializes in the fields of comparative welfare state research and comparative electoral research. She has been a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin in 2018/2019 and directs the ERC-funded grant "welfarepriorities" (www.welfarepriorities.eu), which studies the transformation of distributive conflict in relation with the transformation of European mass politics. At the University of Zurich, she is the co-director of the University Research Priority Programme "Equality of Opportunities". She is the author of The Politics of Welfare State Reform in
Continental Europe: Modernization in Hard Times (CUP, 2010), and a co-author of The Age of Dualization: The Changing Face of Inequality in Deindustrializing Countries (OUP, 2012), The Politics of Advanced Capitalism (CUP, 2015) and Contention in Times of Crisis: Recession and Political Protest in Thirty European Countries (CUP, 2020). Homepage: www.siljahaeusermann.org Bruno Palier is CNRS Research Director at Sciences Po, Centre d'études européennes et de politique comparée. Trained in social science, he has a PhD in political science, and is a former student of Ecole Normale Superieure. He was director of LIEPP (Laboratory for interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies). He works on the comparative political economy of welfare state reforms. He was the scientific coordinator of a European Network of excellence RECWOWE (Reconciling Work and Welfare, involving 30 European research institutions or Universities, 190 researchers from 19 European countries). He was Guest
Professor at the University of Stockholm, Visiting Scholar at Northwestern University, at Center for European Studies from Harvard University in 2001 and Jean Monnet Fellow in the European University Institute in Florence in 1998-1999.
Contributors:
Florencia Antia
Sonja Avlijas
Reto Burgisser
Marius R. Busemeyer
Julian L. Garritzmann
Eriko Hamada
Silja Hausermann
Ijin Hong
Alexander Horn
Jane Jenson,
Kees van Kersbergen
Yeon-Myung Kim
Triin Lauri
Jieun Lee
Sophia Seung-yoon Lee
Jen-Der Lue
Pilar Manzi Mari Miura
Nora Nagels
Bruno Palier
J. Salvador Peralta
Michal Polakowski
Susan Prentice
Stefano Ronchi
Cecilia Rossell
Jaemin Shim
Dorota Szelewa
Anu Toots
Patrik Vesan
Linda White
Chung-Yang Yeh