Articles

Theorising the collective in British estate literature

This article by Yazell, Hogg, Aarhus, Simonsen, Haarder, and Fegitz attends to recent examples of British estate literature, a literary form which extends across disparate genres and media. Published in Textual Practice.

Precarity, Temporality, & Public Housing

Read this new article by Bryan Yazell and Emily Hogg, published in ASAP/Journal

Has Trust in the European Parliament Polarized?

In this study, Davide Morisi and Paul Bauer investigate how the distribution of trust in the European Parliament has changed over time and across European Union member states. Published in Sucius.

Migrancy and Utopia: The Global Network in Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange and Hamid’s Exit West

This paper by Bryan Yazell attends to the utopian imagination circulating in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West (2017) and Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange (1997). It is published in Textual Practice.

Når velfærd bliver til straf

Lea Cecilie Brinkgaard and Cecilie Bjerre have published the article 'Når velfærd bliver til straf' in the online magazine Eftertryk.

Memes in the Literature Studies Classroom

New article by Bryan Yazell and Anita Wholmann, where they consider memes through the lens of riddles and discusses the generative or creative aspect of the meme format as applied in the classroom. Published in Narrative Works, 12, 1–17 (2023)

The Human Costs of the War on Drugs. Attitudes Towards Militarization of Security in Mexico

Do people approve of militarization even in the face of human fatalities? Davide Morisi with Juan Masullo explore this question in the context of Mexico’s “war on drugs in this new article published in Comparative Political Studies.

Bargaining strategies in recent tax reforms in Tanzania

Can taxpayers mobilize to negotiate with governments in semi-autocratic settings? Yes, in this study, Jamal Msami, Lucas Katera and Marianne S. Ulriksen explore how Tanzanian taxpayers bargain to reduce imposed tax burdens. It is published as a PRSB Working Paper.

The German Welfare State

This chapter by Peter Starke gives a condensed overview of developments of the German welfare state since reunification in 1990 until the Covid pandemic. Roughly chronologically structured, it portrays the events as a series of problem-solving attempts that fundamentally changed the nature of the German welfare state. Published in The Oxford Handbook of German Politics, Oxford: Oxford University Press (2022)

A game theoretic approach identifies conditions that foster vaccine-rich to vaccine-poor country donation of surplus vaccines.

This article by Lampert, A., Sulitzeanu-Kenan, R., Vanhuysse, P, Tepe, M. develops a new game, the ‘Rich-to-Poor Vaccine Donation Game,’ and shows that there are hard foundations for modest hope about pandemic cooperation. There is a narrow corridor of conditions under which it is both optimal and stable strategy for the rich world to donate surplus vaccines to the poor world.

Social Policy in Denmark

A guide and introduction to social policy in Denmark. By Klaus Petersen and Cecilie Bjerre and published in Oxford Bibliographies: Social Work

Brændte børn i velfærdsstaten

An interview with the late author Charlotte Strandgaard (1943-2021) about her work for the socially marginalized in the welfare state – both as an artist and as an activist (in danish). By Cecilie Bjerre in Eftertryk.

Making Policies: The History of the Danish Child Welfare System at the Local Level

New article by Cecilie Bjerre in Journal of Policy History.

COVID vaccine prioritization in low- and middle-income countries may justifiably depart from high-income countries’ age priorities

New paper by Isabella Trifan and co-authors on the COVID vaccine prioritisation by age in low- and middle-income countries.

Alderisme i Sundhedsvæsenet

New article by Anne Hagen Berg on ageism in the health care sector

Fighting Rubella without Vaccines: The Danish Exception, 1941–1987

New article in Social History of Medicine by Anne Hagen Berg.

Welfare states as lifecycle redistribution machines: Why the piggy bank dwarfs Robin Hood in Europe

Studying over 400,000 Europeans from EU countries, this paper by Vanhuysse, Medgyesi and Gal shows that European welfare states, often maligned as ineffective Robin Hood vehicles riddled with Matthew effects, are better characterized as inter-age redistribution machines performing a more important second task rather well: lifecycle consumption smoothing. Social policies serve multiple goals in Europe, but empirically they are neither primarily nor solely responsible for poverty relief and inequality reduction.

Literature, Economics, and a Turn to Content

This article by Patrick Fessenbecker and Bryan Yazell offers an overview of the developments in the field of literature and economics. By focusing on a range of recent publications, we diagnose several emergent trends in this interdisciplinary push to make the study of literature and the economy accountable to each other.

Merit, Luck, and Taxes: Societal Reward Rules, Self-Interest, and Ideology in a Real-Effort Voting Experiment

People are willing to tax the rich substantially, but only if the income obtained by luck. New paper by Tepe, Vanhuysse, and Lutz finds that the distinction between merit and luck matters for people's judgement on the deservingness of incomes.

Social policy responses to COVID-19: New issues, old solutions?

What have been social policy responses to COVID-19? In this article, Sarah Cook and Marianne S. Ulriksen collect and discuss findings across a range of articles presented in the special issue Global Social Policy vol.21 issue 3

There’s a Hole in the Fence: Civil Pragmatism in Ambiguous Encounters on Lampedusa, Italy

The article by Laust Lund Elbek is an ethnographic analysis of relations and interactions between migrants and locals on the Italian island of Lampedusa. It poses a critique of discourses on 'crisis' by highlighting the everyday importance of ‘civil pragmatism.’

Vaccine alliance building blocks: a conjoint experiment on popular support for international COVID‑19 cooperation formats

Analyzing popular support for international Covid-19 vaccine alliance principles, this paper by Vanhuysse and colleagues shows that support increases with lower costs and larger coverage for own-nation citizens and with own-national producer origin. A realist and technocratic outlook is warranted at the cognitive stage in pandemic cycles when no solutions have been found, yet the worst already seems to be over, as vaccine nationalism reigns supreme in popular attitudes.

Welfare States as Life-Cycle Redistribution Machines

Studying over 400,000 Europeans from EU countries, this paper by Vanhuysse, Medgyesi and Gal shows that European welfare states, often maligned as ineffective Robin Hood vehicles riddled with Matthew effects, are better characterized as inter-age redistribution machines performing a more important second task rather well: lifecycle consumption smoothing. Social policies serve multiple goals in Europe, but empirically they are neither primarily nor solely responsible for poverty relief and inequality reduction.

Kate Raworth: Doughnut economics - seven ways to think like a 21st-century economist

Frederik Pfeiffer reviews Kate Raworth's book "Doughnut economics - seven ways to think like a 21st-century economist" for the Czech Sociological Review.

Taking social policy personally: How does neuroticism affect welfare state attitudes?

Using cross-sectional data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, Tepe and Vanhuysse study three distinct attitude types (dissatisfaction with the social security system, feelings of personal financial insecurity, and preferences for state provision) and multiple social need contexts (including unemployment, ill health, old age, and nursing care) and how they are affected by the "Big Five" personality traits. Neurotic people are found to be less happy with welfare state programmes across the board, yet they also appear to need these programmes more.

The role of literary fiction in facilitating social science research

Why does social scientist read fiction and how does it impact their research? Paper by Bryan Yazell, Klaus Petersen, Paul Marx, and Patrick Fessenbecker.

Translating social policy ideas: The Beveridge Report, transnational diffusion, and post-war welfare state development in Canada, Denmark and France

The Beveridge Report is a key document in British welfare state history but did it also have impact outside Britain? Paper by Daniel Béland, Gregery P. Marchildon, Michele Mioni, and Klaus Petersen.