Lyle Scruggs
Biographic Data
| ID | 367102 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lyle Scruggs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lyle |
| FAMILY NAME | Scruggs |
| SIGNATURE | SCRUGGS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Connecticut |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4358-3037 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1083 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Policy Feedback and the 2021 Advanced Child Tax Credit
Policy feedback theories suggest that experiencing government benefits can reshape political attitudes, but evidence of how quickly these effects develop and whether they persist after benefits are withdrawn remains limited. This paper examines the 2021 Advanced Child Tax Credit (ACTC), tracking public support through six surveys spanning the policy's complete lifecycle—from pre‐implementation through two years post‐expiration. Using a quasi‐expe…
Blame over blackouts: Correcting partisan misinformation regarding renewable energy in the United States
The end of welfare states as we know them? A multidimensional perspective
This article highlights the limitations of unidimensional analyses in the comparative welfare state literature and emphasises the need for a more holistic, multidimensional approach incorporating social spending, welfare state outputs and outcomes. To illustrate the utility of a multidimensional approach, we examine the long‐term welfare state trajectories of Sweden and Germany, prototypical social‐democratic and conservative welfare states, resp…
Fifty years of welfare state generosity
This article describes an overview of key findings from the Comparative Welfare Entitlements Project (CWEP). CWEP compiles major features of the generosity of unemployment, sickness and public pension programs over the last several decades in 21 countries. Describing and extending earlier work to measure the institutional variation in major social insurance programs over time, we provide previously unpublished methodological details of widely use…
Correcting misinformation about climate change: The impact of partisanship in an experimental setting
Public opinion and economic human rights: Patterns of support in 22 countries
This article describes the public's support for economic human rights enumerated in the UN Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in twenty-two countries over two decades using nationally representative surveys from the International Social Survey Program. It also describes differences in support among key social groups within these countries. The findings suggest that support for economic human rights regime has declined considerably i…
The Influence of Inequality on Welfare Generosity: Evidence from the US States
This article examines the relationship between income concentration and policy outputs that determine the generosity of two major state-level safety net programs: unemployment insurance and cash social assistance. Using a difference in differences framework, it tests the degree to which the top 1 percent share is associated with benefit replacement rates for these programs during the period 1978-2010. The results suggest that higher state income …
The State of Economic and Social Human Rights: A Global Overview
This edited volume offers original scholarship on economic and social human rights from leading and new cutting-edge scholars in the fields of economics, law, political science, sociology and anthropology. It analyzes the core economic and social rights and the crucial topic of non-discrimination, and includes an innovative section on 'meta' rights. The main chapters answer important questions about economic and social rights performance around t…
Measuring Unemployment Insurance Generosity
Unemployment insurance policies are multidimensional objects, with variable waiting periods, eligibility duration, benefit levels, and asset tests, making intertemporal or international comparisons very difficult. Furthermore, labor market conditions, such as the likelihood and duration of unemployment, matter when assessing the generosity of different policies. In this article, we develop a new methodology to measure the generosity of unemployme…
Bribes and ballots: The impact of corruption on voter turnout in democracies
While officials involved in graft, bribery, extortion, nepotism, or patronage typically like keeping their deeds private, the fact that corruption can have serious effects in democracies is no secret. Numerous scholars have brought to light the impact of corruption on a range of economic and political outcomes. One outcome that has received less attention, however, is voter turnout. Do high levels of corruption push electorates to avoid the polls…
Measuring and validating social program replacement rates
Despite similar conceptual underpinnings, estimates of program replacement rates in the Comparative Welfare Entitlements Dataset and the Social Citizenship Indicators Project do not always correspond with each other. Understanding why these similar conceptual measures vary is important both for understanding replacement rate generosity and for promoting the comparative study of social rights. We find that major differences in estimates of replace…
Declining public concern about climate change: Can we blame the great recession
Income inequality, development and electoral turnout - New evidence on a burgeoning debate
Human Rights and Public Opinion: From Attitudes to Action
SHAREEN HERTEL is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Connecticut and holds a joint appointment with the university's Human Rights Institute, where she co-directs the Economic Rights Research Group. She is the author of Unexpected Power: Conflict and Change Among Transnational Activists and co-editor of Economic Rights: Conceptual, Measurement, and Policy Issues. LYLE SCRUGGS is an associate professor of political sci…
Social Stratification and Welfare Regimes for the Twenty-First Century: Revisiting The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Generosity of Social Insurance, 1971-2002
International comparisons of national social policy rely overwhelmingly on programme spending ratios. However, there are widespread problems with this type of data as an indicator of trends in societies' commitments to social protection. This paper suggests an alternative approach to understanding social commitments and introduces a new international data set of social insurance programmes that is comprised of important characteristics of three t…
Welfare-state decommodification in 18 OECD countries: A replication and revision
We present and discuss a replication and reassessment of the welfare-state decommodification index, and introduce a new, publicly available data set of key welfare-state programme characteristics. Using the same programme features used to create the ‘decommodification index’ in The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism, one of the most widely cited sources in the field, we are able to replicate the results quite closely. However, our investigation s…
The Material Consequences of Welfare States: Benefit Generosity and Absolute Poverty in 16 OECD Countries
Several recent studies have focused attention on the relationship between welfare states and poverty, looking primarily at relative poverty and employing concepts of welfare state generosity that are problematic. This has made it difficult to evaluate claims that equality has come at the expense of economic growth. In this article, the authors examine more directly the relationship between welfare state generosity in three social insurance progra…
Political Partisanship and Welfare State Reform in Advanced Industrial Societies
In this article we evaluate two claims made in recent studies of the welfare states of advanced industrial societies: first, that welfare states have remained quite resilient in the face of demands for retrenchment; and second, that partisan politics have ceased to play a decisive role in their evolution. Addressing the first claim, we present analysis from a new data set on unemployment insurance and sickness benefit replacement rates for 18 cou…
The Ghent System and Union Membership in Europe, 1970-1996
Revue des revues
Distribution lectronique Cairn.info pour Presses de Sciences Po. Distribution lectronique Cairn.info pour Presses de Sciences Po. La reproduction ou reprsentation de cet article, notamment par photocopie, n'est autorise que dans les limites des conditions gnrales d'utilisation du site ou, le cas chant, des conditions gnrales de la licence souscrite par votre tablissement. Toute autre reproduction ou reprsentation, en tout ou partie, sous quelque …
The Ghent System and Union Membership in Europe, 1970-1996
In recent years, a fundamental basis of union strength, membership desity, has diverged dramatically across Europe. While most countries have witnessed stagnation or decline in unionization rates, a few countries have actually experienced steady gains, and achieved virtually full unioization. This article addresses the impact of one often acknowledged, but underemphasized, explanation for this divergence: differences in the way unemployment insur…
Where Have All the Members Gone? Globalization, Institutions, and Union Density
There have been widespread claims in recent years about the effects of economic globalization on domestic politics and, in particular, its negative impact on wage earners and trade unions. A number of recent studies have raised serious questions about the validity of claims that the globalization of trade and financial markets leads to international convergence around a neoliberal market economic model. This article considers the impact of econom…
The Politics of Growth Revisited
The purpose of this article is to examine the impact of labor market institutions and partisan politics on macroeconomic performance in advanced industrial societies since the mid-1970s. I do this by reevaluating some of the main claims of an influential comparative political economy literature of growth in light of some recent lessons from conceptual and empirical work associated with new growth theory. I also update the earlier "left-labor" mod…
Is There Really a Link Between Neo-Corporatism and Environmental Performance? Updated Evidence and New Data for the 1980s and 1990s
In a previous article in this Journal entitled 'Institutions and Environmental Performance in Seventeen Western Democracies' (29 (1999), 1–31), I argued that neo-corporatist institutions delivered superior environmental performance during the first two decades of the modern environmental era (1970–90).For other work on the same or similar themes, see Detlef Jahn, 'Environmental Performance and Policy Regimes: Explaining Variation in 18 OECD Count…
Political Partisanship and Welfare State Reform in Advanced Industrial Societies
In this article we evaluate two claims made in recent studies of the welfare states of advanced industrial societies: first, that welfare states have remained quite resilient in the face of demands for retrenchment; and second, that partisan politics have ceased to play a decisive role in their evolution. Addressing the first claim, we present analysis from a new data set on unemployment insurance and sickness benefit replacement rates for 18 cou…
Welfare-state decommodification in 18 OECD countries: A replication and revision
We present and discuss a replication and reassessment of the welfare-state decommodification index, and introduce a new, publicly available data set of key welfare-state programme characteristics. Using the same programme features used to create the ‘decommodification index’ in The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism, one of the most widely cited sources in the field, we are able to replicate the results quite closely. However, our investigation s…
Declining public concern about climate change: Can we blame the great recession
Bribes and ballots: The impact of corruption on voter turnout in democracies
While officials involved in graft, bribery, extortion, nepotism, or patronage typically like keeping their deeds private, the fact that corruption can have serious effects in democracies is no secret. Numerous scholars have brought to light the impact of corruption on a range of economic and political outcomes. One outcome that has received less attention, however, is voter turnout. Do high levels of corruption push electorates to avoid the polls…
Institutions and Environmental Performance in Seventeen Western Democracies
This article examines the relationship between national political and economic institutions and environmental performance since the early 1970s in seventeen OECD countries. After presenting hypotheses about some of the effects of the most important structural and institutional variables on performance, I test these hypotheses using a multiple regression analysis. I find that neo-corporatist societies experience much better environmental outcomes …
Income inequality, development and electoral turnout - New evidence on a burgeoning debate
Social Stratification and Welfare Regimes for the Twenty-First Century: Revisiting The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Material Consequences of Welfare States: Benefit Generosity and Absolute Poverty in 16 OECD Countries
Several recent studies have focused attention on the relationship between welfare states and poverty, looking primarily at relative poverty and employing concepts of welfare state generosity that are problematic. This has made it difficult to evaluate claims that equality has come at the expense of economic growth. In this article, the authors examine more directly the relationship between welfare state generosity in three social insurance progra…
Where Have All the Members Gone? Globalization, Institutions, and Union Density
There have been widespread claims in recent years about the effects of economic globalization on domestic politics and, in particular, its negative impact on wage earners and trade unions. A number of recent studies have raised serious questions about the validity of claims that the globalization of trade and financial markets leads to international convergence around a neoliberal market economic model. This article considers the impact of econom…
Is There Really a Link Between Neo-Corporatism and Environmental Performance? Updated Evidence and New Data for the 1980s and 1990s
In a previous article in this Journal entitled 'Institutions and Environmental Performance in Seventeen Western Democracies' (29 (1999), 1–31), I argued that neo-corporatist institutions delivered superior environmental performance during the first two decades of the modern environmental era (1970–90).For other work on the same or similar themes, see Detlef Jahn, 'Environmental Performance and Policy Regimes: Explaining Variation in 18 OECD Count…
The Influence of Inequality on Welfare Generosity: Evidence from the US States
This article examines the relationship between income concentration and policy outputs that determine the generosity of two major state-level safety net programs: unemployment insurance and cash social assistance. Using a difference in differences framework, it tests the degree to which the top 1 percent share is associated with benefit replacement rates for these programs during the period 1978-2010. The results suggest that higher state income …
The Ghent System and Union Membership in Europe, 1970-1996
In recent years, a fundamental basis of union strength, membership desity, has diverged dramatically across Europe. While most countries have witnessed stagnation or decline in unionization rates, a few countries have actually experienced steady gains, and achieved virtually full unioization. This article addresses the impact of one often acknowledged, but underemphasized, explanation for this divergence: differences in the way unemployment insur…
Measuring and validating social program replacement rates
Despite similar conceptual underpinnings, estimates of program replacement rates in the Comparative Welfare Entitlements Dataset and the Social Citizenship Indicators Project do not always correspond with each other. Understanding why these similar conceptual measures vary is important both for understanding replacement rate generosity and for promoting the comparative study of social rights. We find that major differences in estimates of replace…
Human Rights and Public Opinion: From Attitudes to Action
SHAREEN HERTEL is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Connecticut and holds a joint appointment with the university's Human Rights Institute, where she co-directs the Economic Rights Research Group. She is the author of Unexpected Power: Conflict and Change Among Transnational Activists and co-editor of Economic Rights: Conceptual, Measurement, and Policy Issues. LYLE SCRUGGS is an associate professor of political sci…
Fifty years of welfare state generosity
This article describes an overview of key findings from the Comparative Welfare Entitlements Project (CWEP). CWEP compiles major features of the generosity of unemployment, sickness and public pension programs over the last several decades in 21 countries. Describing and extending earlier work to measure the institutional variation in major social insurance programs over time, we provide previously unpublished methodological details of widely use…
Measuring Unemployment Insurance Generosity
Unemployment insurance policies are multidimensional objects, with variable waiting periods, eligibility duration, benefit levels, and asset tests, making intertemporal or international comparisons very difficult. Furthermore, labor market conditions, such as the likelihood and duration of unemployment, matter when assessing the generosity of different policies. In this article, we develop a new methodology to measure the generosity of unemployme…
Blame over blackouts: Correcting partisan misinformation regarding renewable energy in the United States
The end of welfare states as we know them? A multidimensional perspective
This article highlights the limitations of unidimensional analyses in the comparative welfare state literature and emphasises the need for a more holistic, multidimensional approach incorporating social spending, welfare state outputs and outcomes. To illustrate the utility of a multidimensional approach, we examine the long‐term welfare state trajectories of Sweden and Germany, prototypical social‐democratic and conservative welfare states, resp…
The Politics of Growth Revisited
The purpose of this article is to examine the impact of labor market institutions and partisan politics on macroeconomic performance in advanced industrial societies since the mid-1970s. I do this by reevaluating some of the main claims of an influential comparative political economy literature of growth in light of some recent lessons from conceptual and empirical work associated with new growth theory. I also update the earlier "left-labor" mod…
Policy Feedback and the 2021 Advanced Child Tax Credit
Policy feedback theories suggest that experiencing government benefits can reshape political attitudes, but evidence of how quickly these effects develop and whether they persist after benefits are withdrawn remains limited. This paper examines the 2021 Advanced Child Tax Credit (ACTC), tracking public support through six surveys spanning the policy's complete lifecycle—from pre‐implementation through two years post‐expiration. Using a quasi‐expe…
Public opinion and economic human rights: Patterns of support in 22 countries
This article describes the public's support for economic human rights enumerated in the UN Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in twenty-two countries over two decades using nationally representative surveys from the International Social Survey Program. It also describes differences in support among key social groups within these countries. The findings suggest that support for economic human rights regime has declined considerably i…
Political and economic inequality and the environment
Institutions and Environmental Performance in Seventeen Western Democracies
This article examines the relationship between national political and economic institutions and environmental performance since the early 1970s in seventeen OECD countries. After presenting hypotheses about some of the effects of the most important structural and institutional variables on performance, I test these hypotheses using a multiple regression analysis. I find that neo-corporatist societies experience much better environmental outcomes …
The Politics of Growth Revisited
The purpose of this article is to examine the impact of labor market institutions and partisan politics on macroeconomic performance in advanced industrial societies since the mid-1970s. I do this by reevaluating some of the main claims of an influential comparative political economy literature of growth in light of some recent lessons from conceptual and empirical work associated with new growth theory. I also update the earlier "left-labor" mod…
Is There Really a Link Between Neo-Corporatism and Environmental Performance? Updated Evidence and New Data for the 1980s and 1990s
In a previous article in this Journal entitled 'Institutions and Environmental Performance in Seventeen Western Democracies' (29 (1999), 1–31), I argued that neo-corporatist institutions delivered superior environmental performance during the first two decades of the modern environmental era (1970–90).For other work on the same or similar themes, see Detlef Jahn, 'Environmental Performance and Policy Regimes: Explaining Variation in 18 OECD Count…
The Ghent System and Union Membership in Europe, 1970-1996
Revue des revues
Distribution lectronique Cairn.info pour Presses de Sciences Po. Distribution lectronique Cairn.info pour Presses de Sciences Po. La reproduction ou reprsentation de cet article, notamment par photocopie, n'est autorise que dans les limites des conditions gnrales d'utilisation du site ou, le cas chant, des conditions gnrales de la licence souscrite par votre tablissement. Toute autre reproduction ou reprsentation, en tout ou partie, sous quelque …
The Ghent System and Union Membership in Europe, 1970-1996
In recent years, a fundamental basis of union strength, membership desity, has diverged dramatically across Europe. While most countries have witnessed stagnation or decline in unionization rates, a few countries have actually experienced steady gains, and achieved virtually full unioization. This article addresses the impact of one often acknowledged, but underemphasized, explanation for this divergence: differences in the way unemployment insur…
Where Have All the Members Gone? Globalization, Institutions, and Union Density
There have been widespread claims in recent years about the effects of economic globalization on domestic politics and, in particular, its negative impact on wage earners and trade unions. A number of recent studies have raised serious questions about the validity of claims that the globalization of trade and financial markets leads to international convergence around a neoliberal market economic model. This article considers the impact of econom…
Political Partisanship and Welfare State Reform in Advanced Industrial Societies
In this article we evaluate two claims made in recent studies of the welfare states of advanced industrial societies: first, that welfare states have remained quite resilient in the face of demands for retrenchment; and second, that partisan politics have ceased to play a decisive role in their evolution. Addressing the first claim, we present analysis from a new data set on unemployment insurance and sickness benefit replacement rates for 18 cou…
The Generosity of Social Insurance, 1971-2002
International comparisons of national social policy rely overwhelmingly on programme spending ratios. However, there are widespread problems with this type of data as an indicator of trends in societies' commitments to social protection. This paper suggests an alternative approach to understanding social commitments and introduces a new international data set of social insurance programmes that is comprised of important characteristics of three t…
Welfare-state decommodification in 18 OECD countries: A replication and revision
We present and discuss a replication and reassessment of the welfare-state decommodification index, and introduce a new, publicly available data set of key welfare-state programme characteristics. Using the same programme features used to create the ‘decommodification index’ in The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism, one of the most widely cited sources in the field, we are able to replicate the results quite closely. However, our investigation s…
The Material Consequences of Welfare States: Benefit Generosity and Absolute Poverty in 16 OECD Countries
Several recent studies have focused attention on the relationship between welfare states and poverty, looking primarily at relative poverty and employing concepts of welfare state generosity that are problematic. This has made it difficult to evaluate claims that equality has come at the expense of economic growth. In this article, the authors examine more directly the relationship between welfare state generosity in three social insurance progra…
Social Stratification and Welfare Regimes for the Twenty-First Century: Revisiting The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Human Rights and Public Opinion: From Attitudes to Action
SHAREEN HERTEL is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Connecticut and holds a joint appointment with the university's Human Rights Institute, where she co-directs the Economic Rights Research Group. She is the author of Unexpected Power: Conflict and Change Among Transnational Activists and co-editor of Economic Rights: Conceptual, Measurement, and Policy Issues. LYLE SCRUGGS is an associate professor of political sci…
Declining public concern about climate change: Can we blame the great recession
Income inequality, development and electoral turnout - New evidence on a burgeoning debate
The State of Economic and Social Human Rights: A Global Overview
This edited volume offers original scholarship on economic and social human rights from leading and new cutting-edge scholars in the fields of economics, law, political science, sociology and anthropology. It analyzes the core economic and social rights and the crucial topic of non-discrimination, and includes an innovative section on 'meta' rights. The main chapters answer important questions about economic and social rights performance around t…
Measuring Unemployment Insurance Generosity
Unemployment insurance policies are multidimensional objects, with variable waiting periods, eligibility duration, benefit levels, and asset tests, making intertemporal or international comparisons very difficult. Furthermore, labor market conditions, such as the likelihood and duration of unemployment, matter when assessing the generosity of different policies. In this article, we develop a new methodology to measure the generosity of unemployme…
Bribes and ballots: The impact of corruption on voter turnout in democracies
While officials involved in graft, bribery, extortion, nepotism, or patronage typically like keeping their deeds private, the fact that corruption can have serious effects in democracies is no secret. Numerous scholars have brought to light the impact of corruption on a range of economic and political outcomes. One outcome that has received less attention, however, is voter turnout. Do high levels of corruption push electorates to avoid the polls…
Measuring and validating social program replacement rates
Despite similar conceptual underpinnings, estimates of program replacement rates in the Comparative Welfare Entitlements Dataset and the Social Citizenship Indicators Project do not always correspond with each other. Understanding why these similar conceptual measures vary is important both for understanding replacement rate generosity and for promoting the comparative study of social rights. We find that major differences in estimates of replace…
The Influence of Inequality on Welfare Generosity: Evidence from the US States
This article examines the relationship between income concentration and policy outputs that determine the generosity of two major state-level safety net programs: unemployment insurance and cash social assistance. Using a difference in differences framework, it tests the degree to which the top 1 percent share is associated with benefit replacement rates for these programs during the period 1978-2010. The results suggest that higher state income …
Correcting misinformation about climate change: The impact of partisanship in an experimental setting
Public opinion and economic human rights: Patterns of support in 22 countries
This article describes the public's support for economic human rights enumerated in the UN Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in twenty-two countries over two decades using nationally representative surveys from the International Social Survey Program. It also describes differences in support among key social groups within these countries. The findings suggest that support for economic human rights regime has declined considerably i…
Fifty years of welfare state generosity
This article describes an overview of key findings from the Comparative Welfare Entitlements Project (CWEP). CWEP compiles major features of the generosity of unemployment, sickness and public pension programs over the last several decades in 21 countries. Describing and extending earlier work to measure the institutional variation in major social insurance programs over time, we provide previously unpublished methodological details of widely use…
Blame over blackouts: Correcting partisan misinformation regarding renewable energy in the United States
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