Philip Rathgeb
Biographic Data
| ID | 358767 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philip Rathgeb |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philip |
| FAMILY NAME | Rathgeb |
| SIGNATURE | RATHGEB P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6513-5983 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 154 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Skills and far-right support: How education and training systems moderate voting behaviour in the knowledge economy
Resilience of solidarity: Austria’s social insurance model from a comparative perspective
Continental European welfare states have been prone to growing levels of inequality in the post-industrial context. This outcome has been attributed to their historically evolved and regionally specific reliance on contributory social insurances. The status-preserving character of these systems has been considered a key mechanism reinforcing insider-outsider divides in employment and welfare and thereby contributing to a decline in the overall re…
On Philip Rathgeb’s How the Radical Right Has Changed Capitalism and Welfare in Europe and the USA , Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024
How the Eurozone shapes populism: A Comparative Political Economy Approach
The rise of populist parties is a defining feature of political change in the advanced capitalist countries. Whereas a large body of research explores populist parties in domestic politics, we know little about how populist parties of right and left have responded to the transformation of the transnational Eurozone regime. In this paper, we show how the diverse exposure to the costs and benefits of EMU can explain their EU-level economic policy p…
How the Radical Right Has Changed Capitalism and Welfare in Europe and the USA
Radical right parties are no longer political challengers on the fringes of party systems; they have become part of the political mainstream across the Western world. This book shows how they have used their political power to reform economic and social policies in Continental Europe, Northern Europe, Eastern Europe, and the USA. In doing so, it argues that the radical right’s core ideology of nativism and authoritarianism informs their socio-eco…
Varieties of Just Transition? Eco-Social Policy Approaches at the International Level
‘Just transition’ is a concept originally developed by the labour movement to reconcile workers’ rights with the necessity to combat climate change. More recently, supra- and international organisations have also adopted this idea. However, it remains unclear to what extent these actors follow the eco-social ambitions of organised labour. In this article, we develop a conceptual framework to capture diverse just transition approaches by distingui…
Unemployment benefit governance, trade unions and outsider protection in conservative welfare states
This article explores the relationship between trade union governance roles in unemployment benefit systems, their power resources and their capacity to counteract liberalising and dualising trends in the labour market in conservative welfare states with compulsory unemployment insurance. Against received wisdom, this article argues that in the 21st century trade unions in continental Europe have generally sought to combat the dualism to which th…
How to study the populist radical right and the welfare state
This review article and special issue introduction argues that studying the relationship between the populist radical right and the welfare state requires bridging literatures that have so far advanced with little mutual engagement: party politics and voting behaviour research on the one hand, and comparative political economy and welfare state research on the other. In this way, the article highlights the advantages of connecting different acade…
When do social democratic parties unite over tough immigration policy
Attempting to reconcile the diverse immigration policy demands of the ‘old’ working class and the ‘new’ middle class, social democratic parties struggle to take a clear position on immigration policy. Adopting more restrictive policies is a possible way forward, but this is likely to lead to electorally costly intra-party conflict. This article illuminates the conditions under which social democratic parties can unite behind more restrictive immi…
Authoritarian values and the welfare state: The Social Policy Preferences of Radical Right Voters
What kind of welfare state do voters of populist radical right parties (PRRPs) want and how do their preferences differ from voters of mainstream left- and right-wing parties? In this paper, we draw on an original, representative survey of public opinion on education and related social policies in eight Western European countries to measure (1) support for social transfers, (2) support for workfare and (3) support for social investment. Challengi…
Protagonists or consenters: Radical Right Parties and Attacks on Trade Unions
Populist radical right parties (PRRPs) not only seek to influence public policies with (re-)distributive implications to attract voters; they also try to reshape economic governance to weaken their opponents. We develop a theoretical model suggesting that the institutional reform strategies of PRRPs depend in large part on the degree of Social democratic party–union ties. When organizational ties between centre-left parties and trade unions are s…
Makers against takers: The socio-economic ideology and policy of the Austrian Freedom Party
Recent studies hold that populist radical right parties have shifted towards a leftist socio-economic position in response to growing working-class support. Based on an analysis of policy choices in government, the present article examines this ‘pro-welfare view’ through a case study analysis of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ). Yet, despite the ‘proletarisation’ of its electoral support base, the FPÖ’s pro-welfare impact is restricted to the m…
How the Eurozone disempowers trade unions: The Political Economy of Competitive Internal Devaluation
The marginalization of trade unions was a notable feature of the sovereign debt crisis in the Eurozone periphery. However, governments have recently imposed liberalizing reforms against union protests in the Eurozone core too. We argue that organized labour loses influence across the core-periphery divide because the ‘new economic governance’ puts national governments under enhanced pressure to compete against each other on wage and labour market…
When weak governments confront inclusive trade unions: The politics of protecting labour market outsiders in the age of dualization
Some European welfare states protect outsiders from economic uncertainty better than others. Conventional theories attribute this either to the material interests of producer groups or the vote-seeking actions of political parties. By contrast, this article focuses on the interaction between trade unions and governments, drawing on empirical experience in Austria and Sweden. High levels of inclusiveness provide trade unions with a powerful intere…
Strong Governments, Precarious Workers: Labor Market Policy in the Era of Liberalization
"Looking at Austria, Denmark, and Sweden, this book shows that the weaker the government, the stronger the capacity of organized labor to enhance the social protection of precarious workers"...
No Flexicurity without trade unions: The Danish experience
Makers against takers: The socio-economic ideology and policy of the Austrian Freedom Party
Recent studies hold that populist radical right parties have shifted towards a leftist socio-economic position in response to growing working-class support. Based on an analysis of policy choices in government, the present article examines this ‘pro-welfare view’ through a case study analysis of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ). Yet, despite the ‘proletarisation’ of its electoral support base, the FPÖ’s pro-welfare impact is restricted to the m…
Authoritarian values and the welfare state: The Social Policy Preferences of Radical Right Voters
What kind of welfare state do voters of populist radical right parties (PRRPs) want and how do their preferences differ from voters of mainstream left- and right-wing parties? In this paper, we draw on an original, representative survey of public opinion on education and related social policies in eight Western European countries to measure (1) support for social transfers, (2) support for workfare and (3) support for social investment. Challengi…
How the Eurozone disempowers trade unions: The Political Economy of Competitive Internal Devaluation
The marginalization of trade unions was a notable feature of the sovereign debt crisis in the Eurozone periphery. However, governments have recently imposed liberalizing reforms against union protests in the Eurozone core too. We argue that organized labour loses influence across the core-periphery divide because the ‘new economic governance’ puts national governments under enhanced pressure to compete against each other on wage and labour market…
When do social democratic parties unite over tough immigration policy
Attempting to reconcile the diverse immigration policy demands of the ‘old’ working class and the ‘new’ middle class, social democratic parties struggle to take a clear position on immigration policy. Adopting more restrictive policies is a possible way forward, but this is likely to lead to electorally costly intra-party conflict. This article illuminates the conditions under which social democratic parties can unite behind more restrictive immi…
Varieties of Just Transition? Eco-Social Policy Approaches at the International Level
‘Just transition’ is a concept originally developed by the labour movement to reconcile workers’ rights with the necessity to combat climate change. More recently, supra- and international organisations have also adopted this idea. However, it remains unclear to what extent these actors follow the eco-social ambitions of organised labour. In this article, we develop a conceptual framework to capture diverse just transition approaches by distingui…
Protagonists or consenters: Radical Right Parties and Attacks on Trade Unions
Populist radical right parties (PRRPs) not only seek to influence public policies with (re-)distributive implications to attract voters; they also try to reshape economic governance to weaken their opponents. We develop a theoretical model suggesting that the institutional reform strategies of PRRPs depend in large part on the degree of Social democratic party–union ties. When organizational ties between centre-left parties and trade unions are s…
How the Eurozone shapes populism: A Comparative Political Economy Approach
The rise of populist parties is a defining feature of political change in the advanced capitalist countries. Whereas a large body of research explores populist parties in domestic politics, we know little about how populist parties of right and left have responded to the transformation of the transnational Eurozone regime. In this paper, we show how the diverse exposure to the costs and benefits of EMU can explain their EU-level economic policy p…
No Flexicurity without trade unions: The Danish experience
No Flexicurity without trade unions: The Danish experience
When weak governments confront inclusive trade unions: The politics of protecting labour market outsiders in the age of dualization
Some European welfare states protect outsiders from economic uncertainty better than others. Conventional theories attribute this either to the material interests of producer groups or the vote-seeking actions of political parties. By contrast, this article focuses on the interaction between trade unions and governments, drawing on empirical experience in Austria and Sweden. High levels of inclusiveness provide trade unions with a powerful intere…
Strong Governments, Precarious Workers: Labor Market Policy in the Era of Liberalization
"Looking at Austria, Denmark, and Sweden, this book shows that the weaker the government, the stronger the capacity of organized labor to enhance the social protection of precarious workers"...
How the Eurozone disempowers trade unions: The Political Economy of Competitive Internal Devaluation
The marginalization of trade unions was a notable feature of the sovereign debt crisis in the Eurozone periphery. However, governments have recently imposed liberalizing reforms against union protests in the Eurozone core too. We argue that organized labour loses influence across the core-periphery divide because the ‘new economic governance’ puts national governments under enhanced pressure to compete against each other on wage and labour market…
Makers against takers: The socio-economic ideology and policy of the Austrian Freedom Party
Recent studies hold that populist radical right parties have shifted towards a leftist socio-economic position in response to growing working-class support. Based on an analysis of policy choices in government, the present article examines this ‘pro-welfare view’ through a case study analysis of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ). Yet, despite the ‘proletarisation’ of its electoral support base, the FPÖ’s pro-welfare impact is restricted to the m…
Unemployment benefit governance, trade unions and outsider protection in conservative welfare states
This article explores the relationship between trade union governance roles in unemployment benefit systems, their power resources and their capacity to counteract liberalising and dualising trends in the labour market in conservative welfare states with compulsory unemployment insurance. Against received wisdom, this article argues that in the 21st century trade unions in continental Europe have generally sought to combat the dualism to which th…
How to study the populist radical right and the welfare state
This review article and special issue introduction argues that studying the relationship between the populist radical right and the welfare state requires bridging literatures that have so far advanced with little mutual engagement: party politics and voting behaviour research on the one hand, and comparative political economy and welfare state research on the other. In this way, the article highlights the advantages of connecting different acade…
When do social democratic parties unite over tough immigration policy
Attempting to reconcile the diverse immigration policy demands of the ‘old’ working class and the ‘new’ middle class, social democratic parties struggle to take a clear position on immigration policy. Adopting more restrictive policies is a possible way forward, but this is likely to lead to electorally costly intra-party conflict. This article illuminates the conditions under which social democratic parties can unite behind more restrictive immi…
Authoritarian values and the welfare state: The Social Policy Preferences of Radical Right Voters
What kind of welfare state do voters of populist radical right parties (PRRPs) want and how do their preferences differ from voters of mainstream left- and right-wing parties? In this paper, we draw on an original, representative survey of public opinion on education and related social policies in eight Western European countries to measure (1) support for social transfers, (2) support for workfare and (3) support for social investment. Challengi…
Protagonists or consenters: Radical Right Parties and Attacks on Trade Unions
Populist radical right parties (PRRPs) not only seek to influence public policies with (re-)distributive implications to attract voters; they also try to reshape economic governance to weaken their opponents. We develop a theoretical model suggesting that the institutional reform strategies of PRRPs depend in large part on the degree of Social democratic party–union ties. When organizational ties between centre-left parties and trade unions are s…
Varieties of Just Transition? Eco-Social Policy Approaches at the International Level
‘Just transition’ is a concept originally developed by the labour movement to reconcile workers’ rights with the necessity to combat climate change. More recently, supra- and international organisations have also adopted this idea. However, it remains unclear to what extent these actors follow the eco-social ambitions of organised labour. In this article, we develop a conceptual framework to capture diverse just transition approaches by distingui…
How the Radical Right Has Changed Capitalism and Welfare in Europe and the USA
Radical right parties are no longer political challengers on the fringes of party systems; they have become part of the political mainstream across the Western world. This book shows how they have used their political power to reform economic and social policies in Continental Europe, Northern Europe, Eastern Europe, and the USA. In doing so, it argues that the radical right’s core ideology of nativism and authoritarianism informs their socio-eco…
On Philip Rathgeb’s How the Radical Right Has Changed Capitalism and Welfare in Europe and the USA , Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024
How the Eurozone shapes populism: A Comparative Political Economy Approach
The rise of populist parties is a defining feature of political change in the advanced capitalist countries. Whereas a large body of research explores populist parties in domestic politics, we know little about how populist parties of right and left have responded to the transformation of the transnational Eurozone regime. In this paper, we show how the diverse exposure to the costs and benefits of EMU can explain their EU-level economic policy p…
Skills and far-right support: How education and training systems moderate voting behaviour in the knowledge economy
Resilience of solidarity: Austria’s social insurance model from a comparative perspective
Continental European welfare states have been prone to growing levels of inequality in the post-industrial context. This outcome has been attributed to their historically evolved and regionally specific reliance on contributory social insurances. The status-preserving character of these systems has been considered a key mechanism reinforcing insider-outsider divides in employment and welfare and thereby contributing to a decline in the overall re…
Economics (13 works) · Political science (12 works) · Politics (11 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Political economy (9 works) · Market economy (8 works) · Welfare (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Welfare state (5 works)