2026 Bruno Palier: Political Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Political Science	47	297	263	2	2	345	11375

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Political Science in France Leader Award

Overview

Bruno Palier is affiliated with Sciences Po in France, focusing primarily on the social sciences with a range of publications spanning sociology, political science, finance, economics, and management. Their research explores key contemporary issues related to innovation policy, digital economics, finance, and political economy.

Their recent academic papers include:

Financialization of, not by the State. Exploring Changes in the Management of Public Debt and Assets across Europe (2020, Review of International Political Economy)
Digital power resources (DPR): the political economy of structural and infrastructural business power in digital(ized) capitalism (2022, Socio-Economic Review)
Regulating the digital economy: explaining heterogenous business preferences in data governance (2023, Journal of European Public Policy)
Including migrant skills in a knowledge economy: The politics of recognition of foreign qualifications, work experience and industry courses (2022, Social Policy and Administration)
Economic statecraft by design and by default: The political economy of the 5G-Huawei bans in the United States, United Kingdom and Germany (2024, Competition & Change)

Bruno Palier has published a book titled Growth and Welfare in Advanced Capitalist Economies (2020) under Oxford University Press.

Their research covers several main topics, including:

Innovation Policy and R&D
Digital Platforms and Economics
Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
Political and Economic history of UK and US
Global Financial Regulation and Crises
Digital Economy and Work Transformation
Innovation, Technology, and Society

Bruno Palier frequently collaborates with other researchers. Key coauthors include Werner Eichhörst, Thomas Gerlinger, Gerhard Igl, Sigrid Leitner, and Frank Nullmeier, each coauthoring three publications.

Their research is regularly published in specific academic venues, with multiple contributions in:

Zeitschrift für Sozialreform
Review of International Political Economy
Socio-Economic Review
Journal of European Public Policy
Social Policy and Administration

The scientist's work spans several subfields, indicating a multidisciplinary approach:

Sociology and Political Science
Finance
Political Science and International Relations
Economics and Econometrics
Strategy and Management

Bruno Palier's research contributions illuminate various aspects of the political and economic structures shaping innovation policy, digital economy governance, and financial statecraft within contemporary capitalist societies.

Best Publications

Towards a social investment welfare state? : ideas, policies and challenges

Nathalie Morel;Bruno Palier;Joakim Palme

1482
Citations
The age of dualization : the changing face of inequality in deindustrializing societies

Patrick Emmenegger;Silja Häusermann;Bruno Palier;Martin Seeleib-Kaiser

1100
Citations
Institutionalizing Dualism: Complementarities and Change in France and Germany

Bruno Palier;Kathleen Ann Thelen;Kathleen Ann Thelen

1093
Citations
A Long Goodbye to Bismarck? : The Politics of Welfare Reform in Continental Europe

Bruno Palier

743
Citations
Gouverner la sécurité sociale : les réformes du système français de protection sociale depuis 1945

Bruno Palier

641
Citations
Les 'trois I' et l’analyse de l’État en action

Bruno Palier;Yves Surel

557
Citations
Beyond the welfare state as we knew it

Nathalie Morel;Bruno Palier;Joakim Palme

373
Citations
Between X and Y: how process tracing contributes to opening the black box of causality

Bruno Palier;Christine Trampusch

337
Citations
Trois leçons sur l'État-providence

Gøsta Esping-andersen;Bruno Palier;Marianne Groulez

297
Citations
The EU needs a social investment pact

Frank Vandenbroucke;Anton Hemerijck;Bruno Palier

271
Citations
Los tres grandes retos del Estado del bienestar

Gösta Knud Jorgen Esping Andersen;Bruno Palier

243
Citations
Phénomènes de Path Dependence et réformes des systèmes de protection sociale

Bruno Palier;Giuliano Bonoli

227
Citations
‘Defrosting’ the French welfare state

Bruno Palier

225
Citations
When Past Reforms Open New Opportunities: Comparing Old-age Insurance Reforms in Bismarckian Welfare Systems

Giuliano Bonoli;Bruno Palier

219
Citations
Editorial Introduction From ‘a Frozen Landscape’ to Structural Reforms: The Sequential Transformation of Bismarckian Welfare Systems

Bruno Palier;Claude Martin

190
Citations
How do welfare states change? Institutions and their impact on the politics of welfare state reform in Western Europe

Giuliano Bonoli;Bruno Palier

186
Citations
Globalization and European welfare states : challenges and change

Robert Sykes;Bruno Palier;Pauline Prior;Jo Campling

178
Citations
Towards Neo‐Bismarckian Health Care States? Comparing Health Insurance Reforms in Bismarckian Welfare Systems

Patrick Hassenteufel;Bruno Palier

178
Citations
How we Grow Unequal

Patrick Emmenegger;Silja Häusermann;Bruno Palier;Martin Seeleib-Kaiser

175
Citations
Introduction: Does Europe Matter? Accession to EU and Social Policy Developments in Recent and New Member States:

Ana M. Guillén;Bruno Palier

168
Citations
Gouverner la Sécurité sociale

Bruno Palier

164
Citations
The “losers of automation”: A reservoir of votes for the radical right?

Zhen Jie Im;Nonna Mayer;Bruno Palier;Jan Rovny

148
Citations
Activation or workfare? : governance and the neo-liberal convergence

Daniel O. Clegg;Bruno Palier

146
Citations
Changing the Politics of Social Programmes: Innovative Change in British and French Welfare Reforms

Giuliano Bonoli;Bruno Palier

140
Citations
The EU and the Domestic Politics of Welfare State Reforms: Europa, Europae

Paolo R. Graziano;Sophie Jacquot;Bruno Palier

119
Citations
Social investment: A paradigm in search of a new economic model and political mobilization

Nathalie Morel;Bruno Palier;Joakim Palme

106
Citations
Ambiguous Agreement, Cumulative Change: French Social Policy in the 1990s

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38
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Silja Häusermann University of Zurich

Joakim Palme Uppsala University

Paolo Roberto Graziano University of Padua

Martin Seeleib-Kaiser University of Tübingen

Patrick Emmenegger University of St. Gallen

Giuliano Bonoli University of Lausanne

Philip Manow University of Siegen

Pepper D. Culpepper University of Oxford

Philippe Bezes Sciences Po

Kathleen Thelen MIT

External Links

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