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Department of Social Policy: T H Marshall Fellowships celebration and Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State launch Welfare State Reform Over the (Very) Long-run Professor Paul Pierson Professor Julian le Grand Professor of public policy, holder of the Avice Titmuss Professor of Social Policy , LSE Sarint Chair of Public Policy, Berkeley Professor Anton Hemerijck Professor Howard Glennerster Secretary of the Scientific Council for Government Chair, LSE Policy in the Netherlands, Professor of Comparative Analysis of the European Welfare State at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam

The Welfare State over the (very) Long Run Paul Pierson UC Berkeley November 2010

Welfare State Expansion, 1950-1980 (Ger., Sweden, US, UK, NL, IT)

Union Density, OECD, 1960-2008

DOG BITES MAN

Unemployment Benefit, 1971-2002

Sickness Benefit 1971-2002

Standard Pension Benefit, 1971-2002

Benefit Generosity in Three Continental Cases

Benefit Generosity in Three Liberal Cases

Benefit Generosity in Three Social Democratic Cases

Benefit Generosity, 1971-2002

Public Share of Health Spending, 1970- 2000

The Top 1%* in Affluent Democracies * excluding capital gains 18% 1973-75 16% 14% circa 2000 12% 10% 8% 6% 4% 2% % d a y n s d n d K S a e i n n n d c a d n e U U l a a n a n a d a a p r m l l n a a a l e e t a r s r l e a J w r r r e F u I z e e C Z S A t Source: Andrew Leigh, "How Closely Do Top G h i w t w e Income Shares Track Other Measures of S N e N Inequality?", Economic Journal, forthcoming

Department of Social Policy: T H Marshall Fellowships celebration and Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State launch Welfare State Reform Over the (Very) Long-run Professor Paul Pierson Professor Julian le Grand Professor of public policy, holder of the Avice Titmuss Professor of Social Policy , LSE Sarint Chair of Public Policy, Berkeley Professor Anton Hemerijck Professor Howard Glennerster Secretary of the Scientific Council for Government Chair, LSE Policy in the Netherlands, Professor of Comparative Analysis of the European Welfare State at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam