School of Social and Political Science

Daniel Clegg

Job Title

Professor of Comparative Social Policy, Head of Social Policy

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Room number

3.23

Building (Address)

Chrystal Macmillan Building

Street (Address)

15a George Square

City (Address)

Edinburgh

Country (Address)

UK

Post code (Address)

EH8 9LD

Research interests

Research interests

I conduct research in the broad area of comparative social policy. My main interests are in the social regulation of labour markets in rich democracies and the politics of welfare state reform, with a particular focus on working-age social security and labour market policies/institutions. I have specific expertise on French social and labour market policy.

I am co-editor of the Work and Welfare in Europe book series (Palgrave Macmillan) and a member of the scientific council of the French public employment service. I was on the board of the European Social Policy Analysis network (ESPAnet) from 2012 to 2018.

Topics interested in supervising

I welcome projects investigating the causes and/or effects of the social regulation of labour markets or the politics of welfare state reform, especially in comparative perspective.

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Background

 

Publications

Recent (since 2020) articles and chapters

Policy, power and pandemic: varieties of job and income protection responses to Covid-19 in Western Europe, Journal of European Public Policy, doi: 10.1080/13501763.2023.2242907, 2023 (with N. Durazzi, E. Heins and E. Robertson)

Introduction: Labour market policy as a field of government action and an object of research, in Clegg, D. and Durazzi, N. (eds.) Handbook of Labour Market Policy in Advanced Democracies, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar (2023) (with N. Durazzi)

The parabola of unemployment insurance in advanced democracies, in Clegg, D. and Durazzi, N. (eds.) Handbook of Labour Market Policy in Advanced Democracies, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar (2023) (with L. Nenning)

European labour markets and social policy: Recent research and future directions, in Nelson, K. et al (eds.) Changing European Societies: The Role for Social Policy, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2022 (with J. Clasen)

Unemployment benefit governance, trade unions and outsider protection in Conservative welfare states, Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, 28(2), 195-210, 2022 (with E. Heins and P. Rathgeb)

A more liberal France, a more social Europe? Macron, two-level reformism and the Covid-19 crisis, Comparative European Politics, 20, 184-200, 2022

Social Policy in Europe, in Alcock, P. et al (eds.) The Students Companion to Social Policy (6th edition), Chichester, Wiley Blackwell, 2022

Leaving 'the old broken model' behind?, IPPR Progressive Review, 28(3), 260-269, 2021 (with H. Bennett, J. Eichhorn and E. Heins)

Less dualisation, more segmentation: France's labour market model in the early 21st century, Sociologia del Lavoro, 59(1), 50-70, 2021

Access to social protection by immigrants, emigrants and resident nationals in the UK, in Lafleur, J-M. and Vintila, D. (eds.), Migration and Social Protection in Europe and Beyond (vol. 3), IMISCOE research series, Berlin: Springer, 419-432, 2020 (with A. Bertolini)

Edited Books and Special Issues

Handbook of Labour Market Policy in Advanced Democracies, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar (2023) (ed., with N. Durazzi)

Reforming Minimum Income Protection in Europe, themed section in Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy, 30(2), 2014

Regulating the Risk of Unemployment: National Adaptation to Post-Industrial Labour Markets in Europe, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2011 (ed. with J. Clasen)

 

PhD supervision

I have co-supervised 12 PhD students to successful completion, 6 as principal supervisor.

I currently co-supervise the following three projects

  • Bianca Luna Fabris: The left and labour market policy in Conservative welfare states (ABS funded)
  • Larissa Nenning: The moral economy of part-time work and welfare states (ABS funded)
  • Lina Arenas Romero: Knowledge and anti-poverty policy in Latin America

Works within

Staff Hours and Guidance

Thursdays 2-4 (during semester)

Daniel Clegg's Research Explorer profile