The ’Challenges and Social Problems” research area at DaWS studies the role of public policies in addressing poverty and inequality. Some of this work focuses on the political interests that drive poverty-reducing policies, other studies consider the normative foundations for redistribution through public policy. This research area also includes work on the challenges that welfare states face - for instance, how globalization may drive the need for welfare reform, how immigration may (be perceived to) challenge the sustainability of welfare states, and how war shapes welfare state development. This research area includes work on OECD countries as well as research on the Global South where social challenges are particularly prevalent.
Research topics and projects:
Politics of Insecurity (POINS)
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Redistributive policies and poverty/inequality in Africa
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Social policy expansion in the Global South
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Normative foundations of social protection and redistributive justice
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Social protection and the Sustainable Development Goals
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Social policy and vulnerable groups and/or immigration
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Welfare state reform /globalization
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Welfare state and war
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Welfare state transformation and inequality
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Labour market policy and (un)employment
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Active labour market policy, social inclusion and life satisfaction
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Health policy and healthcare inequality:
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Danish family policy
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Investigation of treatment of institutionalized disabled (mentally and physical) people in Denmark 1933-1980 (for Ministry of Social Affairs in cooperation with Danish Welfare Museum in Svendborg)
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