Papers and Data
for Lyle Scruggs,
Univ. of Connecticut
Comparative Welfare Entitlements Dataset
Codebook + Summary Dataset
(Excel) (Stata*
w/ code for decommodification index) Generosity
Index * (Excel)
Replacement Rate Datasets
Insured Population
Dataset + All
of the above (This always contains most up-to-date versions of each
component.)
Please send any papers using the
dataset (or questions and comments) to me at lyle.scruggs@uconn.edu
+ Updated 5/21/05 to Version 1.1
( replacement rate tables not modified)
* Updated 4/2/06 to Version 1.2 (these updates are administrative, they should
not change any values.)
Recent Papers Social
Stratification and Welfare Regimes for the 21st Century: Revisiting
the “Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
(with James Allan) (March 2006) Presented at the 15th
International Conference of the Council for European Studies, Chicago, IL March
30-April1
Redistributive Consequences of
Welfare State Entitlements (May 2005) Presented
at the Maxwell European Union Center, Syracuse Univ. for a conference
"Democracy, Inequality and Representation: Europe in Comparative
Perspective" Welfare State Generosity
Across Space and Time (May 2005) Presented
at the Centre for Comparative Welfare State Research, Univ. of Stirling for a
conference "Exploring the Dynamics of Welfare Reform"Welfare State Decommodification
in Eighteen OECD Countries: A Replication and Revision (with James Allan) (May 2005) Forthcoming
in European Journal of Social Policy . Earlier version presented at
Univ. of Edinburgh, Univ. of Kent, and Univ. of York. Welfare State Decommodification
and Poverty in Advanced Industrial Democracies (with James
Allan) Forthcoming in Comparative Political
Studies (October 2006) Earlier version presented Council for European
Studies Conference of Europeanists, Chicago 2004 and APSA 2004 (original )Research on Globalization and
the Welfare State: Do We Know What We Think We Know? (May 2004)
Presented at a conference on Globalization and Equity at Duke University.
Trends in Welfare State
Decommodification in Eighteen Advanced Industrial Democracies, 1972-2000
(with James Allan) (August 2003) Presented at the Annual
Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia Political Partisanship and
Welfare State Reform in Advanced Industrial Societies (with James Allan)
(July 2004) Published in American Journal of Political
Science 48(3), July 2004, 493-512. (This is an shortened and updated version
of the 2002 CES paper.) Objective Threats and
Post-material Values as Causes of Environmental Concern in the European
Union (July 2002) Presented at the International
Sociological Association 15th World Congress of Sociology, Brisbane,
Australia, July 7-13, 2002. Politics as Usual? Political
Parties and Welfare Regime Change in Advanced Industrial Societies (April
2002) Presented at 2002 Council of European Studies Meeting in
Chicago. A
Cross-national study of the Cultural Sources of Environmental Attitudes
(with Erin Carriere) (August 2001) Presented at the 2001 APSA
Meetings, San Francisco.
Replication data
[DATA ] Political Partisanship and Welfare State Reform in
Advanced Industrial Societies” (.zipped .dta & .do files) [DATA ]
“The Ghent System and Union Membership in Europe, 1970-1996” (Political
Research Quarterly , 55, 2002, 275-97) [DATA ]
“Is There Really a Link between Neo-corporatism and Environmental Performance?”
(British Journal of Political Science , 31, 2001, 686-91) [DATA ]
”Institutions and Environmental Performance in Industrial Democracies”
(British Journal of Political Science , 29, 1999, 1-31)
Links to political economy datasets elsewhere ( e-mail
links.)
Golden-Wallerstein-Lange’s Unions,Employers, Collective
Bargaining and Industrial Relations Data Heston and Summers’ Penn World Table 6.0 Huber, Ragin and
Stephens’ Comparative
Welfare State’s Data Set Luxembourg
Income Study Swank’s Political Partisanship
Data