Jonas Kraft
Biographic Data
| ID | 4383965 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonas Kraft |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonas |
| FAMILY NAME | Kraft |
| SIGNATURE | KRAFT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aarhus University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1328-2620 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Political parties and public investments
When do political parties push for public investments in education, research, and infrastructure? Existing literature has mainly answered this question by pointing to parties’ state‒market ideology. In contrast, this article presents a novel argument highlighting the role of parties’ aspirations to office and their ambitions to maximize votes. It builds on the idea that investments not only constitute redistributive tools for politicians, but als…
De-universalization and Selective Social Investment in Scandinavia?
The Scandinavian welfare states are at a critical turning point. Their future depends on the extent to which universalism continues to be the principle of social policy. Middle-class politics plays a decisive role in determining welfare state principles and outcomes. The surprising development is that, while the welfare state remains popular, reforms have made it much less universal than it used to be. Programmes aimed particularly at the poor an…
Social democratic austerity
Over the past 30 years, left-wing parties have increasingly abandoned the interests of their core constituency to embark on a right-wing journey of fiscal austerity. I argue that the changing partisan pattern in fiscal policy can in part be explained by analysing social democrats’ need to signal fiscal competence. Drawing on issue ownership theory, my starting point is that voters perceive the Right as better able to balance the budgets than the …
Social democratic austerity
Over the past 30 years, left-wing parties have increasingly abandoned the interests of their core constituency to embark on a right-wing journey of fiscal austerity. I argue that the changing partisan pattern in fiscal policy can in part be explained by analysing social democrats’ need to signal fiscal competence. Drawing on issue ownership theory, my starting point is that voters perceive the Right as better able to balance the budgets than the …
Political parties and public investments
When do political parties push for public investments in education, research, and infrastructure? Existing literature has mainly answered this question by pointing to parties’ state‒market ideology. In contrast, this article presents a novel argument highlighting the role of parties’ aspirations to office and their ambitions to maximize votes. It builds on the idea that investments not only constitute redistributive tools for politicians, but als…
De-universalization and Selective Social Investment in Scandinavia?
The Scandinavian welfare states are at a critical turning point. Their future depends on the extent to which universalism continues to be the principle of social policy. Middle-class politics plays a decisive role in determining welfare state principles and outcomes. The surprising development is that, while the welfare state remains popular, reforms have made it much less universal than it used to be. Programmes aimed particularly at the poor an…
Social democratic austerity
Over the past 30 years, left-wing parties have increasingly abandoned the interests of their core constituency to embark on a right-wing journey of fiscal austerity. I argue that the changing partisan pattern in fiscal policy can in part be explained by analysing social democrats’ need to signal fiscal competence. Drawing on issue ownership theory, my starting point is that voters perceive the Right as better able to balance the budgets than the …
Political parties and public investments
When do political parties push for public investments in education, research, and infrastructure? Existing literature has mainly answered this question by pointing to parties’ state‒market ideology. In contrast, this article presents a novel argument highlighting the role of parties’ aspirations to office and their ambitions to maximize votes. It builds on the idea that investments not only constitute redistributive tools for politicians, but als…
Economics (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (2 works) · Fiscal Policies and Political Economy (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (2 works) · Appeal (1 works) · Argument (complex analysis (1 works)