The Comparative Political Economy of the Welfare State [Paperback]

This book provides a comprehensive explanation and application of time-series, pooled, event history, and Boolean methods to substantive problems of the welfare state.Applying time-series, pooled, event history, and Boolean methods to substantive problems of the welfare state, each section of this text focuses on a new method followed by two papers applying it with respect to welfare state problems in a political economy perspective.Applying time-series, pooled, event history, and Boolean methods to substantive problems of the welfare state, each section of this text focuses on a new method followed by two papers applying it with respect to welfare state problems in a political economy perspective.Comparative research is exploding with new methodological and theoretical approaches. In this book, scholars who are expert in each one of these methods provide the first comprehensive explanation and application of time-series, pooled, event history, and Boolean methods to substantive problems of the welfare state. Each section of the book focuses on a new method with a general introduction to the method and then two papers using the method to deal with analysis concerning welfare state problems in a political economy perspective. Scholars and graduate students concerned with methodology in this area will need this book to bring them up to date on proliferating methodologies.List of contributors; List of tables and figures; Preface; 1. Methodological innovations in comparative political economy: an introduction Thomas Janoski and Alexander M. Hicks; Part I. Time-Series Analysis: 2. Introduction to time-series analysis Thomas Janoski and Larry W. Isaac; 3. Direct state intervention in the labour market: the explanation of active labour market policy from 1950 to 1988 in social democratic, conservative and liberal regimes Thomas Janoski; 4. Quality of quantity in comparative/historical analysis: temporally changing wage labour regimes in the United States and Sweden Larry WlSþ