Global urbanization and food production are in direct competition for land. This paper carries
out a critical review of how displacing crop production from urban and peri-urban land to …

This article contributes to the literature on comparative methods in the social sciences by
assessing the strengths and weaknesses of regression analysis and fuzzy-set qualitative …

What motivates parties to change their positions? Earlier studies demonstrate that parties
change their position in response to environmental incentives, such as voter shifts. Yet, this …

Machine generated contents note: Introduction. The political opportunities and constraints of
welfare state reform; 1. The welfare state: dynamic development, crisis, resilience, and …

Why and how do political actors pursue risky welfare state reforms, in spite of the institutional
mechanisms and political resistance that counteract change? This is one of the key puzzles …

If ever there was momentum to roll back the welfare state, it is the (aftermath) of the financial
crisis of 2008–09. All theoretical perspectives within comparative welfare state research …

By 2010, when the G reek sovereign debt crisis changed into an existential crisis of the euro,
all developed democracies entered a phase in which they had to consolidate their budgets, …

Recent studies in humans have highlighted the importance of a distinct cellular entity, the
plasmacytoid dendritic cell (PDC). To identify genes for which expression is restricted to …

Under which conditions and to what extent do governments pursue unpopular social policy
reforms for which they might be punished in the next election? This article shows that there …

English Did welfare states change radically from welfare towards workfare, or was such a
shift absent and was welfare state change regime-specific instead? This article assesses this …