Pieter Vanhuysse
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 230319 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Pieter Vanhuysse |
| PRENOMES | Pieter |
| SOBRENOME | Vanhuysse |
| ASSINATURA | VANHUYSSE P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Southern Denmark |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6496-8959 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 48 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 222 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 45 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2000 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Better to Grow Up Poor in a Richer Place? Social Housing, Neighbourhood Comparisons, and English Teenagers’ Well-Being
How does being comparatively socio-economically disadvantaged within their neighbourhood affect the lived experiences of young teenagers? We explore this question on a sample of 13 to 15-year-old teenagers living in social housing in England. We explore three major domains of young teenagers’ well-being: (a) their sense of generally leading a bad life, (b) conflictual family interactions, and (c) unhappy social interactions with their peers. We f…
Welfare states as lifecycle redistribution machines
Social scientists identify two core functions of modern welfare states as redistribution across (a) socio-economic status groups (Robin Hood) and (b) ‘the lifecycle’ (the piggy bank). But what is the relative importance of these functions? The answer has been elusive, as the piggy bank is metaphorical. The intra-personal time-travel of resources it implies is based on non- quid-pro-quo transfers. In practice, ‘lifecycle redistribution’ must opera…
Global Political Demography
This open access book draws the big picture of how population change interplays with politics across the world from 1990 to 2040
Vaccine alliance building blocks
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11077-021-09435-1
Merit, Luck, and Taxes
When are high earnings considered a legitimate target for redistribution, and when not? We design a real-effort laboratory experiment in which we manipulate the assignment of payrates (societal “reward rules”) that translate performance on a real-effort counting task into pre-tax earnings. We then ask subjects to vote on a flat tax rate in groups of three. We distinguish three treatment conditions: the same payrate for all group members (“equal” …
Pro-elderly welfare states within child-oriented societies
Families and policies both are main vehicles of intergenerational transfers. Working-age people are net contributors; children and older persons net beneficiaries. However, there is an asymmetry in socialization. Working-age people pay taxes and social security contributions to institutionalize care for older persons as a generation, but invest private resources to raise their own children, often with large social returns. This results in asymmet…
Taking social policy personally
The role of the “Big Five” personality traits in driving welfare state attitudes has received scant attention in social policy research. Yet neuroticism in particular—a disposition to stress, worry, and get nervous easily—is theoretically likely to be an important driver of welfare attitudes precisely because welfare states deliver social “security” and “safety” nets. Using cross‐sectional data from the German Socio‐Economic Panel, we study three…
Silent Non-Exit and Broken Voice. Early Postcommunist Social Policies as Protest-Preempting Strategies
This essay contributes to the development of an analytical political sociology examination of postcommunist policy pathways and applies such an analysis in a reinterpretation of the social policy pathways taken by Hungary and Poland. During the critical historical juncture of the early 1990s, governments in these new democracies used social policies to proactively create new labor market outsiders (rather than merely accommodate or deal with exis…
Pro-elderly welfare states within child-oriented societies
Families and policies both are main vehicles of intergenerational transfers. Working-age people are net contributors; children and older persons net beneficiaries. However, there is an asymmetry in socialization. Working-age people pay taxes and social security contributions to institutionalize care for older persons as a generation, but invest private resources to raise their own children, often with large social returns. This results in asymmet…
Are future bureaucrats more prosocial
This article explores the associations between self‐reported Public Service Motivation (PSM) and preferred job traits, study choice, and observable prosocial behaviour. We studied three subject pools covering over 250 university students in Germany. We used laboratory experiments with monetary rewards to measure altruism, fairness, strategic fairness, and cooperativeness, and a post‐experimental survey on subjects' PSM. Higher levels of PSM were …
Turbulent and Mighty Continent. What Future for Europe
In this ambitious book, Anthony Giddens surveys the sources of the socio-economic, institutional and political ill health of Europe (mainly the EU28) today, and offers a set of foundational princip
Betwixt and Between Global and Domestic Forms of Justice
Intergenerational Justice in Aging Societies
Perceived pension injustice
This article analyses a nationally representative sample of 3,000 respondents from the 2006 wave of the I nternational S ocial J ustice P roject to investigate the determinants of citizens' perceptions of the injustice of their country's prevalent pension system. We studied two ‘most‐different’ cases: I srael, a relatively new democracy and demographically young society, and W estern G ermany, an established democracy and demographically older so…
Parties, Unions and Activation Strategies
This article explores the diverging roles of left-wing parties and trade unions in determining active labour market programme (ALMP) spending. We argue that unions today increasingly take into account the distinct re-employability worries of their members. Rather than as a labour market outsider programme, unions now consider ALMPs, especially those sub-programmes most directly useful to their members, as their second-best or first-best feasible …
Cops for hire? The political economy of police employment in the German states
In times of an alleged waning of political business cycles and partisan policy-making, vote-seeking policy-makers can be expected toshiftthe use of political manipulation mechanisms towards other policy domains in which the macro-institutional environment allows them greater leverage. Public employment generally, and police employment specifically, are a promising domain for such tactics. Timing the hiring of police officers during election perio…
Forum
I argue here that Israel's 'basic structure' (i.e., the main economic, social, and political institutions), to use John Rawls's phrase, subjects the Palestinian citizens to a process of ghettoization that relegates them to a separate and unequal status.This basic structure is particularly unjust, as it does not provide these citizens with the minimal conditions of a decent life.The state not only fails to rectify this injustice but is actively im…
The Individual's Level of Globalism and Citizen Commitment to the State
The article inquires about the role of globalization on individual commitment to the state by studying the tendency of high school students to evade obligatory military service in Israel. We define five dimensions of the individual's level of globalism (ILG) and examine their impact on degrees of military service commitment. We suggest a new nondichotomous approach by considering, in addition to full evasion and full commitment to combat service,…
Elderly bias, new social risks and social spending
Over the past decades, all affluent welfare states have been coping with two major new trends: population ageing and new social risks resulting from de-industrialization. How have these demand-side trends, and their timing, affected welfare spending? We investigate up to 21 OECD democracies with respect to eight separate programmes and two composite indicators of aggregate welfare spending bias towards the elderly and new social risks. We find th…
The Pro-Elderly Bias of Social Policies in Israel
Accelerated population ageing and high voting turnout rates among elderly voters in recent decades have led many social scientists to predict increasing pro-elderly biases in the social policies of mature welfare states. This article investigates and empirically estimates the evolving age orientation of social policies in Israel, which is a comparatively young society that has nevertheless aged significantly since independence in 1948. We present…
Intergenerational Justice Perceptions and the Role of Welfare Regimes
This study analyzes intergenerational justice perceptions among 2,075 undergraduate students in 1996-1998 across eight democracies spanning four welfare regime types. It examined how different regimes structure perceptions of (a) justness in principle of young-to-old public resource transfers and (b) actual contributions to and rewards from society of various age groups. Support in principle of young-to-old transfers is higher in social democrati…
Who Cuts Back and When? The Politics of Delays in Social Expenditure Cutbacks, 1980–2005
This article investigates the politics of delays in social spending cutbacks in OECD democracies. In the context of fiscal austerity, policymakers are assumed to have a strong incentive to manipulate the timing of cutbacks strategically. Applying event history analysis to small and large cutbacks in 21 mature welfare states, we test whether partisanship, electioneering, and institutional constraints contribute to explain the timing of cutbacks. M…
Introduction
The year 2009 marks the fifth anniversary of the accession of eight formerly communist states in Central and Eastern Europe to the European Union,1 and the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. This latter event ushered in a new post-Cold War era and a new wave of democratization and free markets in the heart of the European continent. Twenty years on from that eventful autumn day on 9 November 1989, the institutions and procedure…
Power, Order and the Politics of Social Policy in Central and Eastern Europe
If there is one topic on which political science ought to be able to stake out a distinct claim to fame against other social sciences, it is power. From Machiavelli in the Renaissance Florence of the Medici to Bismarck and Pope Leo XIII in late nineteenth-century Prussia and Rome, rulers and their counsellors have been studied by political scientists in how they have used their state power to establish and consolidate political order. In the post…
Post-Communist Welfare Pathways
This book adopts novel theoretical approaches to study the diverse welfare pathways that have evolved across Central and Eastern Europe since the end of communism. It highlights the role of explanator
Are Aging OECD Welfare States on the Path to Gerontocracy
Since 1990 the age of the average OECD median voter has increased three times faster than in the preceding 30 years. We use panel data from 1980–2002 to investigate the effects of population aging on both the program size and the benefit generosity of public pensions in 18 OECD countries. Population aging is accompanied by cutting smaller slices out of larger cakes: it increases aggregate spending on pensions but freezes or decreases the generosi…
Elderly bias, new social risks and social spending
Over the past decades, all affluent welfare states have been coping with two major new trends: population ageing and new social risks resulting from de-industrialization. How have these demand-side trends, and their timing, affected welfare spending? We investigate up to 21 OECD democracies with respect to eight separate programmes and two composite indicators of aggregate welfare spending bias towards the elderly and new social risks. We find th…
Parties, Unions and Activation Strategies
This article explores the diverging roles of left-wing parties and trade unions in determining active labour market programme (ALMP) spending. We argue that unions today increasingly take into account the distinct re-employability worries of their members. Rather than as a labour market outsider programme, unions now consider ALMPs, especially those sub-programmes most directly useful to their members, as their second-best or first-best feasible …
Exploring Attitudes Towards the Welfare State
We explore the dimensionality of attitudes towards the welfare state among university students in eight countries representing four worlds of welfare: liberal, radical, conservative and social democratic. We use new data from cross-nationally comparable 25-item questionnaires to derive a two-level bi-factorial hierarchical model that specifies six different attitude facets. These facets are clustered into two distinct sets of attitudes: the 'mark…
Spheres of Justice within Schools
Are future bureaucrats more prosocial
This article explores the associations between self‐reported Public Service Motivation (PSM) and preferred job traits, study choice, and observable prosocial behaviour. We studied three subject pools covering over 250 university students in Germany. We used laboratory experiments with monetary rewards to measure altruism, fairness, strategic fairness, and cooperativeness, and a post‐experimental survey on subjects' PSM. Higher levels of PSM were …
Cops for hire? The political economy of police employment in the German states
In times of an alleged waning of political business cycles and partisan policy-making, vote-seeking policy-makers can be expected toshiftthe use of political manipulation mechanisms towards other policy domains in which the macro-institutional environment allows them greater leverage. Public employment generally, and police employment specifically, are a promising domain for such tactics. Timing the hiring of police officers during election perio…
The Individual's Level of Globalism and Citizen Commitment to the State
The article inquires about the role of globalization on individual commitment to the state by studying the tendency of high school students to evade obligatory military service in Israel. We define five dimensions of the individual's level of globalism (ILG) and examine their impact on degrees of military service commitment. We suggest a new nondichotomous approach by considering, in addition to full evasion and full commitment to combat service,…
Pro-elderly welfare states within child-oriented societies
Families and policies both are main vehicles of intergenerational transfers. Working-age people are net contributors; children and older persons net beneficiaries. However, there is an asymmetry in socialization. Working-age people pay taxes and social security contributions to institutionalize care for older persons as a generation, but invest private resources to raise their own children, often with large social returns. This results in asymmet…
Who Cuts Back and When? The Politics of Delays in Social Expenditure Cutbacks, 1980–2005
This article investigates the politics of delays in social spending cutbacks in OECD democracies. In the context of fiscal austerity, policymakers are assumed to have a strong incentive to manipulate the timing of cutbacks strategically. Applying event history analysis to small and large cutbacks in 21 mature welfare states, we test whether partisanship, electioneering, and institutional constraints contribute to explain the timing of cutbacks. M…
Educational business cycles
Workers without Power
This article revisits the case for paying more attention to agency and strategy in theories of post-communist politics and society. The author analyses two trends of major social and political signifi cance in Central and Eastern Europe between 1989 and 2007: the apparent political inconsequentiality of rising unemployment and the causes and consequences of the dramatic decline of organised labour, across a wide variety of political and instituti…
Intergenerational Justice Perceptions and the Role of Welfare Regimes
This study analyzes intergenerational justice perceptions among 2,075 undergraduate students in 1996-1998 across eight democracies spanning four welfare regime types. It examined how different regimes structure perceptions of (a) justness in principle of young-to-old public resource transfers and (b) actual contributions to and rewards from society of various age groups. Support in principle of young-to-old transfers is higher in social democrati…
Teacher's PAT? Multiple‐role principal–agent theory, education politics, and bureaucrat power
This article aims to contribute to current debates about political power and agency relationships in education and other public sectors. In a recent clarion call for a major redirection of political principal–agent theories (PAT), Terry Moe has argued that standard information asymmetries ought no longer to be regarded as the sole foundation of bureaucrat power. According to Moe, current theories largely overlook the direct electoral power of age…
Betwixt and between the market and the state
Analysing comparable samples of students from the Cross‐Cultural Variations in Distributive Justice Perception (CVDJP) project, we explore the multidimensionality of attitudes towards the welfare state in Israel compared with countries from liberal and social‐democratic welfare regimes (the USA, Canada‐Ontario, Sweden, Norway and The Netherlands). We derive six different attitudinal dimensions that constitute two distinct sets of opposing welfare…
Merging dollars with values
The Costs and Financing of Education: trends and policy implications, MARK BRAY, 2002 Manila/Hong Kong: Asian Development Bank/Comparative Education Research Centre, 77 pp., ISBN 9 71561 405 1 (paperback) Education and Social Change, AMANDA COFFEY, 2001, Buckingham and Philadelphia: Open University Press, 142 pp., ISBN 0 33520 069 9 (paperback), £18.99 Education in the Twenty‐First Century, EDWARD LAZEAR (Ed.), 2002, Stanford: Hoover Institution …
Democracy, accountability and representation
Adam Przeworski, Susan C. Stokes and Bernard Manin (eds). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. ix + 350 pp., £14.95 pbk, ISBN 0 521 64616 2
Taking social policy personally
The role of the “Big Five” personality traits in driving welfare state attitudes has received scant attention in social policy research. Yet neuroticism in particular—a disposition to stress, worry, and get nervous easily—is theoretically likely to be an important driver of welfare attitudes precisely because welfare states deliver social “security” and “safety” nets. Using cross‐sectional data from the German Socio‐Economic Panel, we study three…
Perceived pension injustice
This article analyses a nationally representative sample of 3,000 respondents from the 2006 wave of the I nternational S ocial J ustice P roject to investigate the determinants of citizens' perceptions of the injustice of their country's prevalent pension system. We studied two ‘most‐different’ cases: I srael, a relatively new democracy and demographically young society, and W estern G ermany, an established democracy and demographically older so…
East European protest politics in the early 1990s
Efficiency in Politics
The article reviews four recent economic books on efficiency in democracy. Special emphasis is given to two ambitious competing approaches: Mancur Olson's theory of encompassing interests and Donald Wittman's Myth of Democratic Failure. It is argued that the thesis that democracy should generally be presumed to be efficient is problematic in several respects. Sweeping conclusions are reached by virtue of a superficial application of economic anal…
Merit, Luck, and Taxes
When are high earnings considered a legitimate target for redistribution, and when not? We design a real-effort laboratory experiment in which we manipulate the assignment of payrates (societal “reward rules”) that translate performance on a real-effort counting task into pre-tax earnings. We then ask subjects to vote on a flat tax rate in groups of three. We distinguish three treatment conditions: the same payrate for all group members (“equal” …
Betwixt and Between Global and Domestic Forms of Justice
The Pro-Elderly Bias of Social Policies in Israel
Accelerated population ageing and high voting turnout rates among elderly voters in recent decades have led many social scientists to predict increasing pro-elderly biases in the social policies of mature welfare states. This article investigates and empirically estimates the evolving age orientation of social policies in Israel, which is a comparatively young society that has nevertheless aged significantly since independence in 1948. We present…
Czech Exceptionalism? A Comparative Political Economy Interpretation of Post-Communist Policy Pathways, 1989-2004
This article makes a plea for a more explicitly intentional and politicalstrategic analysis of post-communist public policy pathways. The author analyses a set of social and labour-market policies implemented in the Czech Republic (pro-active job loss prevention) compared to Hungary and Poland (large-scale non-elderly retirement), and indicates why, far from being fully constrained by structural or external variables or by international pressures…
On Sen's Liberal Paradox and its Reception within Political Theory and Welfare Economics
In this article, Amartya Sen's seminal proof of the impossibility of a Paretian liberal is briefly reviewed. I then discuss the reception of this alleged ‘liberal paradox’ within the fields of political theory and welfare economics. In particular, I examine the criticisms made by Brian Barry, and their wider implications for the field of social choice theory. It is argued that the various criticisms made on Sen's characterisation of liberty are f…
Democracy, accountability and representation
Adam Przeworski, Susan C. Stokes and Bernard Manin (eds). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. ix + 350 pp., £14.95 pbk, ISBN 0 521 64616 2
Efficiency in Politics
The article reviews four recent economic books on efficiency in democracy. Special emphasis is given to two ambitious competing approaches: Mancur Olson's theory of encompassing interests and Donald Wittman's Myth of Democratic Failure. It is argued that the thesis that democracy should generally be presumed to be efficient is problematic in several respects. Sweeping conclusions are reached by virtue of a superficial application of economic anal…
Public Support for Market Reforms in New Democracies
East European protest politics in the early 1990s
Merging dollars with values
The Costs and Financing of Education: trends and policy implications, MARK BRAY, 2002 Manila/Hong Kong: Asian Development Bank/Comparative Education Research Centre, 77 pp., ISBN 9 71561 405 1 (paperback) Education and Social Change, AMANDA COFFEY, 2001, Buckingham and Philadelphia: Open University Press, 142 pp., ISBN 0 33520 069 9 (paperback), £18.99 Education in the Twenty‐First Century, EDWARD LAZEAR (Ed.), 2002, Stanford: Hoover Institution …
The pensioner booms in post‐communist Hungary and Poland
Starts out by documenting the massive scale of early, and disability, retirement in Hungary and Poland, during the first seven years of the post‐communist transition. Sums up that the Hungarian and Polish governments had urgent reasons to design social policies to try to halt the danger of large‐scale protests in the 1990s
Democracy, Culture and the Voice of Poetry
Promoting happiness, respecting difference? New perspectives on the politics and sociology of education in liberal democracy
Divide and Pacify
Despite dramatic increases in poverty, unemployment, and social inequalities, the Central and Eastern European transitions from communism to market democracy in the 1990s have been remarkably peaceful. This book proposes a new explanation for this unexpected political quiescence. It shows how reforming governments in Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic have been able to prevent massive waves of strikes and protests by the strategic use of welf…
Spheres of Justice within Schools
Betwixt and between the market and the state
Analysing comparable samples of students from the Cross‐Cultural Variations in Distributive Justice Perception (CVDJP) project, we explore the multidimensionality of attitudes towards the welfare state in Israel compared with countries from liberal and social‐democratic welfare regimes (the USA, Canada‐Ontario, Sweden, Norway and The Netherlands). We derive six different attitudinal dimensions that constitute two distinct sets of opposing welfare…
Czech Exceptionalism? A Comparative Political Economy Interpretation of Post-Communist Policy Pathways, 1989-2004
This article makes a plea for a more explicitly intentional and politicalstrategic analysis of post-communist public policy pathways. The author analyses a set of social and labour-market policies implemented in the Czech Republic (pro-active job loss prevention) compared to Hungary and Poland (large-scale non-elderly retirement), and indicates why, far from being fully constrained by structural or external variables or by international pressures…
Divide and Pacify
Exploring Attitudes Towards the Welfare State
We explore the dimensionality of attitudes towards the welfare state among university students in eight countries representing four worlds of welfare: liberal, radical, conservative and social democratic. We use new data from cross-nationally comparable 25-item questionnaires to derive a two-level bi-factorial hierarchical model that specifies six different attitude facets. These facets are clustered into two distinct sets of attitudes: the 'mark…
Workers without Power
This article revisits the case for paying more attention to agency and strategy in theories of post-communist politics and society. The author analyses two trends of major social and political signifi cance in Central and Eastern Europe between 1989 and 2007: the apparent political inconsequentiality of rising unemployment and the causes and consequences of the dramatic decline of organised labour, across a wide variety of political and instituti…
Kneeling at the Altar of (Il)-Liberalism
As East Central Europe is fast approaching the end of its second decade after the fall of the Berlin Wall, new studies of postcommunist politics and society can increasingly benefit from a longer historical perspective. We can now replace the “history of the present” lens that was typical of much research in the highly volatile 1990s with accounts that more extensively compare the most fundamental trends emerging from the decades before and after…
Introduction
The New Political Economy of Skill Formation
Introduction
The year 2009 marks the fifth anniversary of the accession of eight formerly communist states in Central and Eastern Europe to the European Union,1 and the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. This latter event ushered in a new post-Cold War era and a new wave of democratization and free markets in the heart of the European continent. Twenty years on from that eventful autumn day on 9 November 1989, the institutions and procedure…
Power, Order and the Politics of Social Policy in Central and Eastern Europe
If there is one topic on which political science ought to be able to stake out a distinct claim to fame against other social sciences, it is power. From Machiavelli in the Renaissance Florence of the Medici to Bismarck and Pope Leo XIII in late nineteenth-century Prussia and Rome, rulers and their counsellors have been studied by political scientists in how they have used their state power to establish and consolidate political order. In the post…
Post-Communist Welfare Pathways
This book adopts novel theoretical approaches to study the diverse welfare pathways that have evolved across Central and Eastern Europe since the end of communism. It highlights the role of explanator
Teacher's PAT? Multiple‐role principal–agent theory, education politics, and bureaucrat power
This article aims to contribute to current debates about political power and agency relationships in education and other public sectors. In a recent clarion call for a major redirection of political principal–agent theories (PAT), Terry Moe has argued that standard information asymmetries ought no longer to be regarded as the sole foundation of bureaucrat power. According to Moe, current theories largely overlook the direct electoral power of age…
Educational business cycles
Are Aging OECD Welfare States on the Path to Gerontocracy
Since 1990 the age of the average OECD median voter has increased three times faster than in the preceding 30 years. We use panel data from 1980–2002 to investigate the effects of population aging on both the program size and the benefit generosity of public pensions in 18 OECD countries. Population aging is accompanied by cutting smaller slices out of larger cakes: it increases aggregate spending on pensions but freezes or decreases the generosi…
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