Lyle Scruggs University
of Connecticut
Papers and Data
Comparative
Welfare Entitlements Dataset
Codebook+
Summary Dataset (Excel) (Stata* w/ code for decommodification index) Generosity Index* (Excel)
Replacement Rate Datasets
Maternity [NA]
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 (updated 4/1/09)
Democracy and Environmental Protection: An Empirical Analysis
Presented at the Midwest Political Science Assoc. Meeting in Chicago, April 2009
The Impact of Inequality on Turnout
Presented at the Midwest Political Science Assoc. Meeting in Chicago, April 2009 (w/ Daniel Stockemer)
New Dimensions of Welfare State Regimes in Advanced Democracies
Presented at the American Political Science Assoc. meeting in Boston, MA, August 2008 (with J. Pontusson)
Forthcoming in World Politics 60(4), 2008 (with J. Allan)
Human Rights and Public Opinion: From Attitudes to Action
Forthcoming in Political Science Quarterly (with S. Hertel
and P. Heidkamp) (previous version) UConn
Economic Rights Group Working Paper 3 2008
Social Rights, Welfare Generosity
and Inequality
Published in C. Anderson and P. Baramendi, eds. Democracy, Inequality, and Representation. Russell Sage Foundation, 2008.
Unemployment Insurance
Generosity: A Trans-Atlantic Comparison
(with Chirstian Zimmerman and Stéphan Pallage).
Measuring
Unemployment Insurance Generosity
(with Chirstian Zimmerman and Stéphan Pallage).
Presented at the Midwest
Political Science Assoc. meeting in Chicago, IL April 2008 (with C. Rivera)
Presented at the American Political Science Assoc. Meeting in Chicago, IL, August 2007 (with James Bourbeau)
What’s Multiple Regression Got to Do with It ?
Published in Comparative Social Research 24 (1),
2007, pp. 309-24.
The Generosity of Social Insurance, 1971–2002
Published in Oxford Review of Economic Policy 22 (3), 2006: 349-64.
Redistributive Consequences of Welfare State Entitlements
Presented at
Syracuse University, May 2005.
Welfare State Generosity
Across Space and Time
Published in J.
Clasen and N. Siegel, eds. Investigating Welfare State Change,
Edward Elgar, 2007, 133-66
Welfare State Decommodification
in Eighteen OECD Countries: A Replication and Revision
Published in European Journal of Social Policy. 16(1), 2006, pp 55-72 (with J. Allan)
Material Consequences of Welfare
States (with J. Allan)
Published in Comparative Political
Studies 39(7), 2006, pp. 880-904.
Research on Globalization and the
Welfare State: Do We Know What We Think We Know?
Presented at a conference on Globalization and Equity at Duke
University, May 2004.
Political Partisanship and Welfare State Reform in
Advanced Industrial Societies
Published in American Journal of Political Science 48(3),
2004, 493-512. (with J. Allan)
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