Welfare Democracies and Party Politics: Explaining Electoral Dynamics in Times of Changing Welfare Capitalism

Philip Manow is Professor of Comparative Political Economy, University of Bremen. His research interests include comparative welfare state research, the German political system, European integration and Political Theory. Publications include In the King's Shadow. The Political Anatomy of Democratic Representation (Polity Press, 2010) and Religion, Class Coalitions and Welfare States, Cambridge Studies on Social Theory, Religion and Politics(co-authored with Kees van Kersbergen, CUP, 2009).Bruno Palier is CNRS Research Director at Sciences Po, Centre d'études européennes. He is studying welfare reforms in Europe. He is co-director of LIEPP (Laboratory for interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies). His publications include Reforming the Bismarckian Welfare Systems (John Wiley and Sons, 2009) and Globalization and European Welfare States: Challenges and Change (co-authored with Nathalie Morel and Joakim Palme, 2011).Hanna Schwander is a Senior Researcher with an Ambizione-Project on women's political alignment at the Department of Political Science, University of Zurich and prospective Professor of Public Policy at the Hertie School in Berlin. Located at the intersection between comparative politics, political sociology and political economy, her research is guided by an interest in how post-industrial transformations of welfare states, labor markets and societies affect various aspects of the politicallife.