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Switzerland
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D-Index
44
Citations
12372
World Ranking
371
National Ranking
7

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Political Science in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Political Science in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Law and Political Science in Switzerland Leader Award

Overview

Giuliano Bonoli is affiliated with the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. Their research primarily spans the broad domain of Social Sciences, with a focus on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, as well as Economics and Econometrics. Additional interests include Clinical Psychology and Education.

The main topics covered in their work encompass Social Policy and Reform Studies, Migration, Refugees, and Integration, Migration and Labor Dynamics, Labor Market Dynamics and Wage Inequality, Migration, Health and Trauma, Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research, and Employment and Welfare Studies.

Bonoli has contributed publications to several venues including:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • SERVAL (Université de Lausanne)
  • Journal of European Public Policy
  • Journal of European Social Policy
  • Social Policy and Administration

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Bonoli include:

  • The limits of decentralized cooperation: promoting inclusiveness in collective skill formation systems?, 2020, Journal of European Public Policy
  • Integration through vocational training. Promoting refugees' access to apprenticeships in a collective skill formation system, 2021, Journal of Vocational Education and Training
  • What Signals Do Employers Use When Hiring? Evidence from a Survey Experiment in the Apprenticeship Market, 2020, European Sociological Review
  • A Recast Framework for Welfare Deservingness Perceptions, 2021, Social Indicators Research
  • Conditional Solidarity - Attitudes Towards Support for Others During the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic, 2022, Journal of Social Policy

Their frequent coauthors include Flavia Fossati, Mia Gandenberger, Carlo Knotz, Philipp Trein, and Frédéric Varone. The number of collaborations ranges with the closest coauthor having 18 joint works and others typically between 6 and 16.

Best Publications

  • Classifying Welfare States: a Two-dimension Approach

    Giuliano Bonoli

  • The politics of the new social policies: providing coverage against new social risks in mature welfare states

    Giuliano Bonoli

  • The Political Economy of Active Labor-Market Policy:

    Giuliano Bonoli

  • The Politics of Pension Reform: Institutions and Policy Change in Western Europe

    Giuliano Bonoli

  • Time Matters: Postindustrialization, New Social Risks, and Welfare State Adaptation in Advanced Industrial Democracies

    Giuliano Bonoli

  • The politics of the new welfare state

    Giuliano Bonoli;David Natali

  • European Welfare Futures

    Giuliano Bonoli;Vic George;Peter Taylor-Gooby

  • The Politics of Post-Industrial Welfare States : Adapting Post-War Social Policies to New Social Risks

    Klaus Armingeon;Giuliano Bonoli

  • Political Institutions, Veto Points, and the Process of Welfare State Adaptation

    Giuliano Bonoli

  • The Origins of Active Social Policy: Labour Market and Childcare Policies in a Comparative Perspective

    Giuliano Bonoli

  • Two Worlds of Pension Reform in Western Europe

    Giuliano Bonoli

  • Phénomènes de Path Dependence et réformes des systèmes de protection sociale

    Bruno Palier;Giuliano Bonoli

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

    Giuliano Bonoli;Bruno Palier

  • The politics of pension reform

    Giuliano Bonoli

  • Active labour market policy and social investment : a changing relationship

    G. Bonoli

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

    Giuliano Bonoli;Bruno Palier

  • Ageing and Pension Reform Around the World: Evidence from Eleven Countries

    Giuliano Bonoli;Toshimitsu Shinkawa

  • The political economy of childcare in OECD countries: Explaining cross-national variation in spending and coverage rates

    Giuliano Bonoli;Frank Reber

  • European Welfare Futures: Towards a Theory of Retrenchment

    Giuliano Bonoli;Victor George;Peter Taylor-Gooby

  • Social Policy through Labor Markets Understanding National Differences in the Provision of Economic Security to Wage Earners

    Giuliano Bonoli

  • The Origins of Active Social Policy

    Giuliano Bonoli

  • The origins of active social policy : labour market and childcare polices in a comparative perspective

    Giuliano Bonoli

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruno Palier
Bruno Palier Sciences Po
Silja Häusermann
Silja Häusermann University of Zurich
Rafael Lalive
Rafael Lalive University of Lausanne
Patrick Emmenegger
Patrick Emmenegger University of St. Gallen
Peter Taylor-Gooby
Peter Taylor-Gooby University of Kent
Martin Powell
Martin Powell University of Birmingham
Klaus Armingeon
Klaus Armingeon University of Zurich
Herbert Obinger
Herbert Obinger University of Bremen
Stephan Leibfried
Stephan Leibfried University of Bremen

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