Digitalization and the Welfare State

by Busemeyer, Marius R.; Kemmerling, Achim; Van Kersbergen, Kees; Marx, Paul

• ISBN13: 9780192848369
• ISBN10: 0192848364
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2022-06-14
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Marius R. Busemeyer, Professor of Political Science, University of Konstanz,Achim Kemmerling, Gerhard Haniel Professor of Public Policy and International Development, Willy Brandt School of Public Policy, University of Erfurt,Kees Van Kersbergen, Professor of Comparative Politics, Aarhus
University,Paul Marx, Professor of Political Science and Socio-Economics, University of Duisburg-Essen

Marius R. Busemeyer is a Full Professor of Political Science at the University of Konstanz and Speaker of the Excellence Cluster "The Politics of Inequality". His research focuses on comparative political economy, the welfare state and inequality. Busemeyer holds a doctorate in political science
from the University of Heidelberg and worked as a senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies. He held visiting professor- and fellowships at, for example, the Center for European Studies at Harvard, the WZB Berlin, the Graduate Center at CUNY (New York) and the
Amsterdam Center for Inequality Studies (AMCIS).


Achim Kemmerling is the Gerhard Haniel Chair of Public Policy and International Development and director of the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy, University of Erfurt. He holds a PhD from Freie Universität in Berlin and has previously worked at Central European University Budapest, Jacobs
University Bremen and the Social Science Research Centre in Berlin. He was visiting fellow at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore, and the Colegio de México, Mexico. He does research on the political economy of social, labour and tax policies in OECD and developing countries.


Paul Marx is Professor of Political Science and Socio-Economics at University of Duisburg-Essen. Previously, he held positions at University of Southern Denmark and at the IZA Institute of Labor Economics (Bonn, Germany). He received his PhD degree in Social Sciences from the University of Cologne
(Germany) in 2011. His research interests are related to social and political inequality, political behaviour, and comparative welfare state and labour market analysis.

Kees van Kersbergen studied political science at the University of Amsterdam (MA 1984) and received his PhD degree (with distinction) in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute, Florence, Italy (1991). He held positions at the University of Amsterdam, the Free University
of Amsterdam, and the University of Nijmegen. He was a visiting scholar at the European University Institute, the University of Konstanz, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lectured at Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Sichuan University. Currently he is professor of comparative
politics at Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.

Table of Contents

Preface
1. Digitalization and the Welfare State: Introduction, Marius R. Busemeyer, Achim Kemmerling, Paul Marx and Kees van Kersbergen
2. Digitalization, Automation, and Tthe Welfare State: What Do We (Not Yet) Know?, Marius R. Busemeyer
Part I: Broader Trends: Is This Time Different or Not?
3. Digitalization and the Transition to Services, Anne Wren
4. Welfare States, Labor Markets, Social Investment, and the Digital Transformation, Werner Eichhorst, Anton Hemerijck and Gemma Scalise
5. The Value and Future of Work in the Digital Economy, Marius R. Busemeyer and Ulrich Glassmann
6. The Data Revolution and the Transformation of Social Protection, Torben Iversen and Philipp Rehm
7. Social Solidarity in the Age of the Internet, Paul Marx
Part II: The New Politics of the Welfare State in the Digital Age
8. Automation Risk, Social Policy Preferences, and Political Participation, Thomas Kurer and Silja Häusermann
9. Gender, Technological Risk, and Political Preferences, Jane Gingrich and Alexander Kuo
10. The Case for a Basic Income in the Emergent Digitalized Economy, Joe Chrisp and Luke Martinelli
11. Technology, Risk, and Support for Social Safety Nets: An Empirical Exploration Based on Italy, Dario Guarascio and Stefano Sacchi
12. Tracing Fears About Digitalization and Automation in Social and Labor Market Policy Debates, Achim Kemmerling and Stephanie Gast Zepeda
Part III: Policies and Politics: Adaptation, Resilience, Vulnerabilities
13. Political and Institutional Limits to the Rise of Platform Work, Georg Picot
14. Internet and Platform Work in Europe, Jan Drahokoupil and Agnieszka Piasna
15. Digitalization and Automation: The Challenges for European Pension Policies, David Natali and Michele Raitano
16. The Structural Adaptability of Bismarckian Social Insurance Systems in the Digital Age, Frank Nullmeier
17. Transformation of Education Policy and Governance in the Digital Era, Sigrid Hartong, Nelli Piattoeva, Antti Saari and Glenn Savage
18. Digitalization and the Politics of Health Risks in Advanced Democracies, Carsten Jensen and Kees van Kersbergen
19. Digitalization and the Effects of Internal and External Modernization in Health Care Systems, Daniel Buhr and Rolf Frankenberger
20. The Politics of Tax Policy in the Digital Age, Margarita Gelepithis
Part IV: Conclusions
21. Digitalization and the Future of the Democratic Welfare State, Marius R. Busemeyer, Achim Kemmerling, Paul Marx and Kees van Kersbergen