Join us for a special book launch celebrating the EUI’s 50th anniversary and highlighting the Institute’s lasting contribution to comparative welfare research—past, present, and future.
Chaired by EUI Emeritus Professor Stefano Bartolini and introduced by EUI President Patrizia Nanz, the event brings together distinguished speakers to reflect on three themes: the EUI’s contribution to the social investment turn, the book’s central arguments, and the future of welfare state research at the EUI and beyond.
The programme features a historical reflection by Anton Hemerijck, presentations by the editors and contributors, a review by Maurizio Ferrera, and a concluding reflection by Waltraud Schelkle on the future directions of welfare state research.
Governing the welfare commons: on Europe’s social investment turn (Oxford University Press), edited by Anton Hemerijck and David Bokhorst, is in many ways a quintessential EUI product. Comparative welfare state research has been a mainstay at the Institute since its founding in 1976, beginning with Peter Flora's macro-sociological volumes on welfare state expansion and continuing through Gøsta Esping-Andersen's landmark Three worlds of welfare capitalism (1990), the European Forum on Recasting the Welfare State convened by Maurizio Ferrera and Martin Rhodes, and the social investment agenda set out in Why we need a new welfare state (2002). This new volume, the centrepiece of Hemerijck's ERC-funded WellSIRe project, stands squarely in that tradition. It offers a novel theoretical lens—the ‘welfare commons’—to explain how Europe’s diverse welfare states have recalibrated since the turn of the millennium, combining theoretical and comparative quantitative chapters with detailed case studies of ten countries and the EU. As with its predecessors, it also launches a new generation of European welfare scholars.
Please find attached the detailed programme.
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