Project Team

Finland/Sweden, France, Germany, Spain, Switzerland and the UK

Finland and Sweden

Virpi Timonen

Postdoctoral thesis on welfare state restructuring in Finland and Sweden; research on healthcare in Poland and Irish social care and welfare state reform in an European context. Back to Top

France

Lou Mandin

PhD on pension reform in Germany and France, impact of Europeanisation, ideas and values in relation to welfare.

Bruno Palier

Doctor Bruno Palier is a member of CEVIPOF in Sciences PO Paris. Organised the comparative programme on social welfare systems in Europ for MIRE in the French Ministry of Social Affairs (1994-9). Now a member of the COST Programme A15 on reforming social protection systems. Publications include:'Defrosting the French Welfare State', West European Politics, 2000: 'Phénomènes de path dependence et transformation des systèmes de protection sociale' (with G. Bonoli), Revue Française de Science Politique , 1999; and 'Changing the Politics of Social Programmes. Innovative Change in British and French welfare Reforms', (with G. Bonoli), Journal of European Social Policy , 1998. Back to Top

Germany

Andreas Aust

PHD on European Integration and social and economci development in Ireland: The European Social Model: Does it exist, and what does it mean? EUroepan integration and social democracy

Frank Boenker

Post-communist transition; theories of policy change; pension reform in Germany; conference and book on public sector and welfare reform in France and Germany with Hellmut Wollmann

Hellmutt Wollmann

Professor of Public Administration at Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Germany. Recent publications include: 'Germany´s Trajectory of Public Sector Modernisation - Continuities and Discontinuities', Politics and Policy , 'Local Government Modernisation in Germany: Between Incrementalism and Reform Waves', Public Administration , 'The Rise and Fall of a Social Service Regime: Marketisation of German Social Services in Historical Perspective' and 'The Development and Present State of Local Government in England and Germany'(with Frank Bönker) in Wollmann/Schröter (eds.), Comparing Public Sector Reform in Britain and Germany , Aldershot: Ashgate 2000 and 'Incrementalism and Reform Waves: The Case of Social Services Reform in the FRG' (with Frank Bönker), Journal of European Public Policy , 1996. Back to Top

Spain

Luis Moreno

Citizens versus individuals. Poverty and exclusion, precarious citixens and safety nets. Gender and family life, paid and unpaid work in Southern Europe (superwoman). Territorial issues in welfare provision and impact of Europeanisation on 'meso-governments'. Back to Top

Switzerland

Guliano Bonoli

Pension reform: new book on the 'Third Way' in Europe; research on the Swiss welfare state and on future entitlement to pensions in Switzerland.

Benoit Guy-Des Coombes Back to Top

United Kingdom

Peter Taylor-Gooby (Director)

Main Activity; This project; ESRC Research network on Social Contexts and Responses to Risk:  www.kent.ac.uk/scarr/

Trine Pernille Larsen

Research interests; comparative social policy in particular the EU's impact on current welfare reforms in Europe and the changing role of the family in contemporary Europe.

Johannes Kananen

Research interests: Comparative welfare analysis, social insurance, employment policy. Back to Top