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UK
2023

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Political Science

D-Index
49
Citations
14813
World Ranking
252
National Ranking
6

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Francis G. Castles is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their research work primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Health Professions, with specific focus areas within these domains.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Social Sciences
  • Health Professions

Within these broader fields, their subfields of study consist of:

  • Political Science and International Relations
  • General Health Professions

Their research addresses several main topics, including:

  • Social Policy and Reform Studies
  • Political and Economic history of UK and US
  • Employment and Welfare Studies

Francis G. Castles has collaborated with Christopher R. Pierson as a frequent co-author.

Best Publications

  • Left Right Political Scales - Some Expert Judgments

    Francis Geoffrey Castles;Peter Mair

  • The Future of the Welfare State: Crisis Myths and Crisis Realities

    Francis Geoffrey Castles

  • Comparative Public Policy: Patterns of Post-War Transformation

    Francis Geoffrey Castles

  • Families of nations : patterns of public policy in Western democracies

    Francis Geoffrey Castles

  • The Impact of parties : politics and policies in democratic capitalist states

    Francis Geoffrey Castles

  • The World Turned Upside Down: Below Replacement Fertility, Changing Preferences and Family-Friendly Public Policy in 21 OECD Countries:

    Francis G. Castles

  • Federalism and the Welfare State: New World and European Experiences

    Herbert Obinger;Stephan Leibfried;Francis Geoffrey Castles

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State

    Francis Geoffrey Castles;Stephan Leibfried;Jane Lewis;Herbert Obinger

  • Identifying Welfare State Regimes: The Links Between Politics, Instruments and Outcomes

    Francis G. Castles;Deborah Mitchell

  • Home Ownership and the Welfare State: Is Southern Europe Different?

    Francis G. Castles;Maurizio Ferrera

  • The Welfare State Reader

    Christopher Pierson;Francis Geoffrey Castles;Ingela K. Naumann

  • Australian Public Policy and Economic Vulnerability: A Comparative and Historical Perspective

    Francis Geoffrey Castles

  • On religion and public policy: Does Catholicism make a difference?

    Francis G. Castles

  • The working class and welfare : reflections on the political development of the welfare state in Australia and New Zealand, 1890-1980

    Rob Watts;Francis G. Castles

  • Worlds, Families, Regimes: Country Clusters in European and OECD Area Public Policy

    Francis G. Castles;Herbert Obinger

  • Convergence towards where: in what ways, if any, are welfare states becoming more similar?

    Peter Starke;Herbert Obinger;Francis G. Castles

  • What Welfare States Do: A Disaggregated Expenditure Approach

    Francis G. Castles

  • The great experiment : labour parties and public policy transformation in Australia and New Zealand

    Francis Geoffrey Castles;Rolf Gerritsen;Jack Vowles

  • The wage earners' welfare state revisited: refurbishing the established model of Australian social protection, 1983/ 93

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  • Explaining public education expenditure in OECD nations

    Francis G. Castles

  • Needs-Based Strategies of Social Protection in Australia and New Zealand

    Francis G. Castles

  • Social expenditure and the politics of redistribution

    Francis G. Castles;Herbert Obinger

  • Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism or Four

    Deborah Mitchell;Francis Castles

  • Visions and realities of party government

    Rudolf Wildenmann;Francis Geoffrey Castles

Frequent Co-Authors

Herbert Obinger
Herbert Obinger University of Bremen
Stephan Leibfried
Stephan Leibfried University of Bremen
Peter Mair
Peter Mair European University Institute
Jane Lewis
Jane Lewis London School of Economics and Political Science
Maurizio Ferrera
Maurizio Ferrera University of Milan

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