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Martin Seeleib-Kaiser

Martin Seeleib-Kaiser

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Overview

Martin Seeleib-Kaiser is a researcher affiliated with the University of Tübingen in Germany. Their academic work predominantly falls within the social sciences, with a focus on political science and international relations, sociology and political science, general health professions, finance, and public administration.

Their research covers various main topics, including social policy and reform studies, employment and welfare studies, European Union policy and governance, housing, finance, and neoliberalism, labor movements and unions, political and economic history of the UK and US, and European law and migration.

Recent publications by Martin Seeleib-Kaiser include:

  • The COVID-19 crisis and policy responses by continental European welfare states, 2021, Social Policy and Administration
  • Enforcing outsiders' rights: seasonal agricultural workers and institutionalised exploitation in the EU, 2023, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
  • The end of welfare states as we know them? A multidimensional perspective, 2023, Social Policy and Administration
  • Social citizenship in federations: free movement and social assistance rights in the EU and beyond, 2020, West European Politics
  • Agency, institutions, and welfare chauvinism: Tracing the exclusion of European Union migrant citizens from social assistance in Germany, 2024, Journal of European Social Policy

Frequent co-authors in Seeleib-Kaiser's work include Cecilia Bruzelius, Jakub Sowula, Béa Cantillon, Romke van der Veen, and Franziska Gehrig. Collaborative research with these scholars has contributed to various studies central to European social policy and welfare issues.

The researcher often publishes in journals such as the Journal of European Social Policy, Social Policy and Administration, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, West European Politics, and the European Journal of Social Security. These venues underscore their engagement with interdisciplinary and policy-relevant social science research.

Best Publications

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

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

  • Economic Globalization and the Welfare State in Affluent Democracies, 1975-1998

    David Brady;Jason Beckfield;Martin Seeleib-Kaiser

  • Welfare regime debate: past, present, futures?

    Emanuele Ferragina;Martin Seeleib-Kaiser

  • The dual transformation of the German welfare state

    Peter Bleses;Martin Seeleib-Kaiser

  • Welfare state Transformations in Comparative Perspective: Shifting Boundaries of Public and Private Social Policy?

    Martin Seeleib-Kaiser

  • Discourse, Learning and Welfare State Change: The Case of German Labour Market Reforms

    Martin Seeleib-Kaiser;Timo Fleckenstein

  • How we Grow Unequal

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

  • Determinants of a Silent (R)evolution: Understanding the Expansion of Family Policy in Rich OECD Countries

    Emanuele Ferragina;Martin Seeleib-Kaiser

  • Globalisierung und Sozialpolitik : ein Vergleich der Diskurse und Wohlfahrtssysteme in Deutschland, Japan und den USA

    Martin Seeleib-Kaiser

  • The End of the Conservative German Welfare State Model

    Martin Seeleib-Kaiser

  • Stratified social rights limiting EU citizenship

    Cecilia Bruzelius;Constantin Reinprecht;Martin Seeleib-Kaiser

  • The Four Worlds of ‘Welfare Reality’ – Social Risks and Outcomes in Europe

    Emanuele Ferragina;Martin Seeleib-Kaiser;Thees Spreckelsen

  • Business, skills and the welfare state: the political economy of employment-oriented family policy in Britain and Germany

    Timo Fleckenstein;Martin Seeleib-Kaiser

  • The Dual Transformation of Social Protection and Human Capital: Comparing Britain and Germany

    Timo Fleckenstein;Adam M. Saunders;Martin Seeleib-Kaiser

  • Unemployment Protection and Family Policy at the Turn of the 21st Century: A Dynamic Approach to Welfare Regime Theory

    Emanuele Ferragina;Martin Seeleib-Kaiser;Mark Tomlinson

  • Shifting the Public-Private Mix

    Martin Seeleib-Kaiser;Adam Saunders;Marek Naczyk

  • Welfare State Transformations

    Martin Seeleib-Kaiser

  • The Political Economy of Occupational Family Policies: Comparing Workplaces in Britain and Germany

    Martin Seeleib-Kaiser;Timo Fleckenstein

  • The Age of Dualization

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

  • Between reforms and birth rates: Germany, Japan, and family policy discourse.

    Martin Seeleib-Kaiser;Tuukka Toivonen

  • Welfare state transformations : comparative perspectives

    Martin Seeleib-Kaiser

  • The COVID-19 crisis and policy responses by continental European welfare states

    Béa Cantillon;Martin Seeleib-Kaiser;Romke Jan van der Veen

  • The Dual Transformation of Social Protection and Human Capital: Comparing Britain and Germany

    Timo Fleckenstein;Martin Seeleib-Kaiser;Adam Saunders

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruno Palier
Bruno Palier Sciences Po
Silja Häusermann
Silja Häusermann University of Zurich
Patrick Emmenegger
Patrick Emmenegger University of St. Gallen
Mark Tomlinson
Mark Tomlinson Queen's University Belfast
David J. Brady
David J. Brady University of Arizona

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