Collaborative Research: Comparative Welfare States - A Public-Use Archival Data Set

合作研究：比较福利国家-公共使用档案数据集SES-1059959大卫布雷迪，杜克大学SES -1061007伊芙琳胡贝尔和约翰D。斯蒂芬斯，北卡罗来纳州教堂山大学摘要该项目将更新，修订和扩大比较福利国家（CWS）数据集。 CWS数据集于20世纪90年代中期首次构建，可供公众使用。它包含了富裕民主国家政治经济的档案和定量信息。CWS的数据已被广泛用于研究先进工业民主国家的政治和政策。 我们的项目有两个目标。 首先，我们将扩展数据集的横截面（包括希腊，葡萄牙和西班牙的南欧国家）和时间（添加和更新20世纪90年代末至2009年的数据）。 其次，我们将对更新的数据集进行分析，这将有助于对一系列社会政策进行比较研究。 为此，我们的项目研究了有关医疗保健，教育和儿童保育政策的跨国变化（以及随时间的变化）。 我们研究了促进这些具体社会政策的通过和有效实施的政治条件，以及“国家紧缩”的后果（即，公共开支的削减和社会服务的私有化）对提供保健、教育和儿童保育方面的各种结果产生了影响。 最后，我们研究了这些社会政策的“二元化”程度，“二元化”指的是维持单独的资格标准的政策，例如，有稳定工作的人和工作经历不好的人。 我们的分析使用先进的统计估算技术来回答这些问题。更广泛的影响我们的项目将更新和扩展一个关键的公共使用数据集，该数据集可通过卢森堡收入研究网站获得。 更新后的CWS数据集已经在世界各地的社会学和政治学中产生了重大影响，因此将促进广泛的学者和政策制定者的未来研究。 正是因为其明确的比较历史和国际范围，数据和我们的研究结果将有助于并告知有关社会政策的公共辩论。该项目还将提供基础设施，以培训和与研究生合作，并应导致几个共同撰写的演示文稿和文章。

Collaborative Research: Comparative Welfare States - A Public-Use Archival DatasetSES - 1059959David Brady, Duke University SES - 1061007Evelyne Huber and John D. Stephens, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillAbstractThis project will update, revise and expand the Comparative Welfare States (CWS) dataset. The CWS dataset was first constructed in the mid-1990s and is available for public use. It contains archival, quantitative information on the political economies of affluent democracies. The CWS data have been widely used in research on the politics and policies of advanced industrial democracies. Our project has two goals. First we will expand the dataset cross-sectionally (to include the southern European countries of Greece, Portugal and Spain) and temporally (adding and updating data from the late 1990s to 2009). Second, we will conduct analyses of the updated dataset that will contribute to comparative research on a range of social policies. To that end, our project examines cross-country variation (and changes over time) regarding health care, education, and child care policies. We examine the political conditions that facilitate the adoption and effective implementation of these specific social policies, as well as the consequences of "state retrenchment"(i.e., cutbacks in public expenditures and privatization of social services) on a variety of outcomes related to the provision of health care, education, and child care. Finally, we examine the degree to which these social policies are marked by "dualization," which refers to policies that maintain separate eligibility criteria for e.g., people with stable jobs and people with weak job histories. Our analyses use advanced statistical estimation techniques to answer these questions.Broader ImpactsOur project will update and expand a key public use dataset, made available through the website of the Luxembourg Income Study. The updated CWS dataset, which has already had a substantial impact in sociology and political science around the world, will thus facilitate future research by a broad set of scholars and policy makers. Precisely because of its explicitly comparative-historical and -international scope, the data and our findings will contribute to and inform public debates about social policies. The project will also provide the infrastructure to train and collaborate with graduate students and should result in several coauthored presentations and articles.