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Joakim Palme

Joakim Palme

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
37
Citations
11422
World Ranking
6073
National Ranking
81

Overview

Joakim Palme is affiliated with Uppsala University in Sweden and focuses primarily on social sciences and health professions. Their research spans multiple subfields, including political science and international relations, general health professions, finance, sociology and political science, as well as gender studies.

The main topics addressed in their work include social policy and reform studies, employment and welfare studies, housing, finance, and neoliberalism, migration, refugees, and integration, European Union policy and governance, global health care issues, and gender, labor, and family dynamics.

Joakim Palme's recent scholarly articles include the following:

  • The Social Policy Indicators (SPIN) database, 2020, published in International Journal of Social Welfare
  • Universalism in Welfare Policy: The Swedish Case beyond 1990, 2020, published in Social Inclusion
  • Shielding free movement? Reciprocity in welfare institutions and opposition to EU labour immigration, 2021, published in Journal of European Public Policy
  • Free Movement versus European Welfare States? Variations of the Fiscal Effects of EU Migrants across Welfare State Regimes, 2023, published in Politics & Society
  • Combating climate change through the welfare state: can social insurance boost support for carbon taxes in Europe?, 2024, published in Journal of European Public Policy

Their frequent publication venues reflect interdisciplinary interests and include:

  • Journal of European Public Policy
  • International Journal of Social Welfare
  • Social Inclusion
  • Politics & Society
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Collaborations feature recurrent coauthors such as Moa Mårtensson, Martin Ruhs, Walter Korpi, Ola Sjöberg, and Marcus Österman, indicating consistent partnerships in research projects across related social and political topics.

In addition to journal articles, Joakim Palme has contributed to academic books, including a publication titled When Protest Makes Policy, released by University of Michigan Press in 2022.

Best Publications

  • The Paradox of Redistribution and Strategies of Equality: Welfare State Institutions, Inequality and Poverty in the Western Countries

    Walter Korpi;Joakim Palme

  • New Politics and Class Politics in the Context of Austerity and Globalization: Welfare State Regress in 18 Countries, 1975-95

    Walter Korpi;Joakim Palme

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

    Nathalie Morel;Bruno Palier;Joakim Palme

  • Pension rights in welfare capitalism : the development of old-age pensions in 18 OECD countries 1930 to 1985

    Joakim Palme

  • Beyond the welfare state as we knew it

    Nathalie Morel;Bruno Palier;Joakim Palme

  • The role of welfare state principles and generosity in social policy programmes for public health : An international comparative study

    Olle Lundberg;Monica Åberg Yngwe;Maria Kölegård Stjärne;Jon Ivar Elstad

  • Does Social Policy Matter? Poverty Cycles in Oecd Countries

    Olli Kangas;Joakim Palme

  • Vulnerable children's rights to participation, protection, and provision : The process of defining the problem in Swedish child and family welfare

    Maria Heimer;Elisabet Näsman;Joakim Palme

  • Social Policy and Economic Development in the Nordic Countries: An Introduction

    Olli Kangas;Joakim Palme

  • Social Policy In A Changing Europe

    Joakim Palme;Zsusza Ferge;Jon Eivind Kolberg

  • Welfare and the unemployment crisis: Sweden in the 1990s

    Åke Bergmark;Joakim Palme

  • Social policy and economic development in the Nordic countries

    Olli Kangas;Joakim Palme

  • Unemployment Benefits in EU Member States

    Ingrid Esser;Tommy Ferrarini;Kenneth Nelson;Joakim Palme

  • A welfare balance sheet for the 1990s. Final report of the Swedish Welfare Commission.

    Joakim Palme;Ake Bergmark;Olof Bäckman;Felipe Estrada

  • Welfare trends in Sweden: balancing the books for the 1990s:

    Joakim Palme;Ake Bergmark;Olof Backman;Felipe Estrada

  • The Paradox of Redistribution and Strategies of Equality: Welfare State Institutions, Inequality and Poverty in the Western Countries

    Joakim Palme;Walter Korpi

  • Welfare states and inequality: Institutional designs and distributive outcome

    Joakim Palme

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

    Nathalie Morel;Bruno Palier;Joakim Palme

  • Social citizenship rights and social insurance replacement rate validity: pitfalls and possibilities

    Tommy Ferrarini;Kenneth Nelson;Walter Korpi;Joakim Palme

  • Welfare in Sweden: the balance sheet for the 1990s : Ds 2002:32

    J. Palme;Å. Bergmark;O. Bäckman;F. Estrada

  • What Future for Social Investment

    Joakim Palme;Nathalie Morel;Bruno Palier

Frequent Co-Authors

Johan Fritzell
Johan Fritzell Karolinska Institute
Olle Lundberg
Olle Lundberg Stockholm University
Thor Norström
Thor Norström Stockholm University
Denny Vågerö
Denny Vågerö Stockholm University

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