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

Unemployment Minimum Pension
Maternity [NA]

Sickness Standard Pension
Child Benefit [NA]
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 21^st 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 15^th 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

Unemployment	Minimum Pension	Maternity [NA]
Sickness	Standard Pension	Child Benefit [NA]