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

david Brady，杜克大学evelyne Huber和John D. Stephens，北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校摘要该项目将更新、修订和扩展比较福利国家（CWS）数据集。CWS数据集最早建立于20世纪90年代中期，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，我们将横向扩展数据集（包括希腊、葡萄牙和西班牙等南欧国家）和临时扩展数据集（添加和更新从20世纪90年代末到2009年的数据）。其次，我们将对更新后的数据集进行分析，这将有助于对一系列社会政策的比较研究。为此，我们的项目考察了医疗保健、教育和儿童保育政策的跨国差异（以及随时间的变化）。我们研究了促进采用和有效实施这些具体社会政策的政治条件，以及“国家紧缩”（即削减公共支出和社会服务私有化）对与提供医疗保健、教育和儿童保育有关的各种结果的后果。最后，我们考察了这些社会政策以“二元化”为标志的程度，二元化指的是对工作稳定的人和工作经历不佳的人保持单独资格标准的政策。我们的分析使用先进的统计估计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数据集已经对世界各地的社会学和政治学产生了重大影响，因此将促进广泛的学者和决策者未来的研究。正是由于其明确的比较历史和国际范围，数据和我们的发现将有助于并告知有关社会政策的公共辩论。该项目还将提供培训和与研究生合作的基础设施，并将产生几篇合著的报告和文章。

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.