Alexandre Afonso

New in paperback: European Social Models from Crisis to Crisishttps://t.co/lR8r0s8b3G pic.twitter.com/ewlL52Yma5 — Alexandre Afonso (@alexandreafonso) February 25, 2017  

Today, Nigel Farage said that Malmö in Sweden was the rape capital of Europe, accusing the large influx of refugees for causing an increasing in crime and violence. Donald Trump made a similar confused reference to Sweden in a rally recently. If you look at reported rapes, Sweden has indeed one of the highest rates…

New paper with M. Flickenschild on the network structure of economic expertise in the US and Germany https://t.co/PSa2X5v9ML pic.twitter.com/eFX6Sp7oJN — Alexandre Afonso (@alexandreafonso) February 14, 2017

    A paraître dans Panorama, 2017. Au cours des 60 dernière années, la Suisse a fait massivement appel aux travailleurs et travailleuses étranger-e-s pour satisfaire ses besoins de main d’œuvre. Dans le contexte de reconstruction de l’après-guerre, les travailleurs étrangers, en particulier saisonniers, semblaient être la solution la plus efficace pour augmenter le volume…

Data comes from Eurostat. Rank Country NUTS Code Name Purchasing power standards (PPS) per inhabitant in percentage of the EU average 1 UK UKI3 Inner London – West 539 2 LU LU00 Luxembourg 266 3 BE BE10 Région de Bruxelles-Capitale / Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest 207 4 DE DE60 Hamburg 206 5 UK UKI4 Inner London…

To be published (in Dutch) in Beleid en Maatschapij, symposium on “Nog steeds een mirakel? De legitimiteit van het poldermodel in de eenentwintigste eeuw“, ed by Maarten Keune, Amsterdam University Press   The totemic status of the Dutch polder model  may have waned somewhat since the publication of Visser and Hemerijck’s “Dutch Miracle” in 1997,…

The Left Divided: The Development and Transformation of Advanced Welfare States By Sara E. Watson, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. ISBN: 9780190245474, 376 p (review to appear in Political Studies Review, autumn 2017). One of the most widespread assumptions in welfare state and comparative political economy research is that the strength of the left is the…

The V-Dem dataset is a huge dataset that compiles many indicators to measure political institutions, dating back to 1900. With the death of Fidel Castro, I tried to see what the indicators said about the evolution of democracy in Cuba. It shows a tremendous decline after 1950. Interestingly this started before Fidel Castro, during the dictatorship of…

Donald Trump is on course to be the US presidential candidate to win the Presidency with the largest negative popular vote margin, with nearly 2 million votes less than Hillary Clinton. At the same time, Hillary Clinton is set to become the presidential candidate with the third largest number of votes in US history.