50 Years of Welfare Entitlements: Partisanship Before and After the Great Recession

• In Event: Welfare, Policy, and Institutions II

Brief Overview

We evaluate two claims from the welfare states literature with an updated data set of unemployment insurance and sickness benefit replacement rates from the Comparative Welfare Entitlements Dataset for years 1970-2019: retrenchment and partisanship.

Authors

• Gabriela Ramalho Tafoya, University of Connecticut

• Lyle A. Scruggs, University of Connecticut