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Peter Taylor-Gooby

Peter Taylor-Gooby

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Political Science
UK
2023

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Political Science

D-Index
50
Citations
11157
World Ranking
241
National Ranking
35

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Peter Taylor-Gooby is affiliated with the University of Kent in the United Kingdom. Their work is situated primarily within the Social Sciences, with a focus on Political Science and International Relations. The research encompasses several interconnected fields including Social Policy and Reform Studies, Populism and Right-Wing Movements, Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism, Employment and Welfare Studies, as well as Homelessness and Social Issues.

The scholar has frequently published in several academic venues. These include:

  • Journal of Social Policy
  • Journal of the British Academy
  • Journal of European Social Policy
  • Social Policy and Society

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Peter Taylor-Gooby include:

  • "Inflation, wages and equality: cross-disciplinary conversations," 2023, Journal of the British Academy
  • "Covid19, Charitable Giving and Collectivism: a data-harvesting approach," 2021, Journal of Social Policy
  • "Categorizing discourses of welfare chauvinism: Temporal, selective, functional and cultural dimensions," 2024, Journal of European Social Policy
  • "Kenneth Nelson, Rense Nieuwenhuis and Mara Yerkes (eds) (2022), Social Policy in Changing European Societies: Research Agendas for the 21st Century," 2023, Journal of Social Policy
  • "Sonja Blum, Kuhlmann Johanna and Klaus Schubert (eds) (2020), Routledge Handbook of European Welfare Systems, Second Edition," 2020, Journal of Social Policy

The scientist has collaborated with several frequent co-authors, including:

  • Benjamin Leruth
  • Paul Edwards
  • Charles Baden-Fuller
  • Christopher A. Pissarides
  • Jill Rubery

Peter Taylor-Gooby's research addresses themes related to social policy debates, welfare state transformations, and the socio-political dimensions of economic issues such as inflation and labor market dynamics. This work reflects engagement with both empirical data and theoretical frameworks, including analyses of collective behavior in response to crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

They have been recognized as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom, which signifies a formal acknowledgment of contributions to the field.

Best Publications

  • New Risks, New Welfare: The Transformation of the European Welfare State

    Peter Taylor-Gooby

  • New Risks, New Welfare

    Peter Taylor-Gooby

  • New Risks and Social Change

    Peter Taylor-Gooby

  • European Welfare Futures

    Giuliano Bonoli;Vic George;Peter Taylor-Gooby

  • Public opinion, ideology, and state welfare

    Peter Taylor-Gooby

  • Current directions in risk research : New developments in psychology and sociology

    Peter Taylor-Gooby;Jens O. Zinn

  • The Coalition Programme: A New Vision for Britain or Politics as Usual?

    Peter Taylor-Gooby;Gerry Stoker

  • Welfare States under Pressure

    Peter Taylor-Gooby

  • Welfare State Regimes and Welfare Citizenship

    Peter Taylor-Gooby

  • The Silver Age of the Welfare State: Perspectives on Resilience

    Peter Taylor-Gooby

  • Reframing social citizenship

    Peter Taylor-Gooby

  • Root and Branch Restructuring to Achieve Major Cuts: The Social Policy Programme of the 2010 UK Coalition Government

    Peter Taylor-Gooby

  • Markets and Motives Trust and Egoism in Welfare Markets

    Peter Taylor-Gooby

  • Social theory and social welfare

    Peter Taylor-Gooby;Jennifer Dale

  • Postmodernism and Social Policy: A Great Leap Backwards?

    Peter Taylor-Gooby

  • THE NEW WELFARE STATE SETTLEMENT IN EUROPE

    Peter Taylor-Gooby

  • Social change, social welfare, and social science

    Peter Taylor-Gooby

  • The Double Crisis of the Welfare State

    Peter Taylor-Gooby

  • Dependency culture: The explosion of a myth

    Hartley Dean;Peter Taylor-Gooby

  • Risk in social science

    Peter Taylor-Gooby;Jens O. Zinn

  • European Welfare Futures: Towards a Theory of Retrenchment

    Giuliano Bonoli;Victor George;Peter Taylor-Gooby

  • Risk and the welfare state.

    Peter Taylor-Gooby;Hartley Dean;Moira Munro;Gillian Parker

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael .W. Calnan
Michael .W. Calnan University of Kent
Colin Hay
Colin Hay Sciences Po
Hartley Dean
Hartley Dean London School of Economics and Political Science
Dominic Abrams
Dominic Abrams University of Kent
Giuliano Bonoli
Giuliano Bonoli University of Lausanne
Francis Green
Francis Green University College London
Gerry Stoker
Gerry Stoker University of Southampton
Ian Taylor
Ian Taylor University of St Andrews

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