Francis Geoffrey Castles

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PhD Political Science University of Oxford
Bachelors Politics University of Oxford

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Left Right Political Scales - Some Expert Judgments (1984) (834)
The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State (2012) (481)
Families of nations : patterns of public policy in Western democracies (1993) (432)
Comparative Public Policy: Patterns of Post-War Transformation (1998) (417)
The Future of the Welfare State: Crisis Myths and Crisis Realities (2002) (397)
The World Turned Upside Down: Below Replacement Fertility, Changing Preferences and Family-Friendly Public Policy in 21 OECD Countries (2003) (395)
The Rational Design of International Institutions (2006) (274)
Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism or Four (1991) (267)
The working class and welfare : reflections on the political development of the welfare state in Australia and New Zealand, 1890-1980 (1986) (267)
Federalism and the Welfare State: New World and European Experiences (2005) (227)
Identifying Welfare State Regimes: The Links Between Politics, Instruments and Outcomes (1992) (220)
Home Ownership and the Welfare State: Is Southern Europe Different? (1996) (215)
Worlds, Families, Regimes: Country Clusters in European and OECD Area Public Policy (2008) (189)
What Welfare States Do: A Disaggregated Expenditure Approach1 (2009) (178)
Convergence towards where: in what ways, if any, are welfare states becoming more similar? (2008) (160)
The welfare state : a reader (2013) (158)
The wage earners' welfare state revisited: refurbishing the established model of Australian social protection, 1983/ 93 (1994) (158)
DOES POLITICS MATTER: AN ANALYSIS OF THE PUBLIC WELFARE COMMITMENT IN ADVANCED DEMOCRATIC STATES (1979) (150)
The future of the welfare state (2004) (146)
Needs-Based Strategies of Social Protection in Australia and New Zealand (1996) (146)
Does politics matter? (1997) (136)
The Comparative History of Public Policy (1990) (130)
Explaining public education expenditure in OECD nations (1989) (130)
The Impact of parties : politics and policies in democratic capitalist states (1982) (122)
The Impact of Government Spending Levels on Medium-Term Economic Growth in the Oecd, 1960-85 (1990) (112)
On the Political Economy of Recent Public Sector Development (2001) (110)
Welfare state development in Southern Europe (1995) (108)
Decentralization and the post–war political economy (1999) (102)
The great experiment : labour parties and public policy transformation in Australia and New Zealand (1996) (101)
Developing new measures of welfare state change and reform (2002) (99)
Australian Public Policy and Economic Vulnerability: A Comparative and Historical Perspective (1988) (98)
Social expenditure and the politics of redistribution (2007) (95)
The Disappearing State?: Retrenchment Realities in an Age of Globalisation (2008) (94)
The Politics of Justification: Party Competition and Welfare-State Retrenchment in Denmark and the Netherlands from 1982 to 1998 (2004) (79)
On religion and public policy: Does Catholicism make a difference? (2019) (78)
Black swans and elephants on the move: the impact of emergencies on the welfare state (2010) (77)
Visions and realities of party government (1986) (76)
Public Welfare Provision, Scandinavia, and the Sheer Futility of the Sociological Approach to Politics (1979) (74)
Bypasses to a social Europe? Lessons from federal experience (2005) (60)
A Farewell to Australia's Welfare State (2001) (60)
Female Legislative Representation and the Electoral System (1981) (52)
Social expenditure in the 1990s: data and determinants (2005) (51)
Federalism and the Welfare State: Introduction: federalism and the welfare state (2005) (50)
The dynamics of policy change (1990) (50)
A NEW CONVERGENCE? Recent policy developments in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand (1996) (47)
Australian Antecedents of the Third Way (2002) (47)
Left–right political scales (1997) (44)
The Social Democratic Image of Society : A Study of the Achievements and Origins of Scandinavian Social Democracy in Comparative Perspective (1978) (41)
The institutional design of the Australian Welfare State (1997) (41)
A Race to the Bottom (2004) (40)
How does Politics Matter?: Structure or Agency in the Determination of Public Policy Outcomes* (1981) (37)
Is expenditure enough? On the nature of the dependent variable in comparative public policy analysis (1994) (33)
Federalism and the Welfare State: ‘Old’ and ‘new politics’ in federal welfare states (2005) (33)
Testing the retrenchment hypothesis: an aggregate overview (2007) (30)
The Disappearing State (2007) (29)
The Influence of the Political Right on Public Income Maintenance Expenditure and Equality (1981) (27)
Public policy in Australia and New Zealand: The new global context (2006) (27)
On Sickness Days and Social Policy (1992) (26)
Barrington Moore's Thesis and Swedish Political Development (1973) (25)
Left-right political scales (1997) (25)
Managing Mixed Economies (1986) (23)
Australia: Federal Constraints and Institutional innovations (2005) (23)
Australia reshaped : 200 years of institutional transformation (2002) (22)
The Future of Party Government, Volume 1, Visions and Realities of Party Government (1986) (22)
Divorce, the Law and Social Context (1991) (21)
Pressure Groups and Political Culture : A Comparative Study (1967) (20)
The Australian Welfare State: Has Federalism Made a Difference? (2007) (19)
The growth of the post-war public expenditure state: long-term trajectories and recent trends (2006) (17)
The dog that didn't bark: economic development and the postwar welfare state (2000) (17)
Comparing the Australian and Scandinavian welfare states (1994) (16)
Australia's Institutions and Australia's Welfare (2002) (16)
Australia compared : people, policies and politics (1991) (16)
Why Divorce Rates Differ: Law, religious belief and modernity (1993) (16)
The English‐Speaking Countries (2010) (16)
Policy Innovation and Institutional Stability in Sweden (1976) (15)
Neocorporatism and the ‘happiness index’, or what the trade unions get for their cooperation (1987) (15)
Whatever happened to the communist welfare state (1986) (15)
Towards a General Model of Public Policy Outcomes (1989) (14)
Big government in weak states: The paradox of state size in the english‐speaking nations of advanced capitalism (1989) (14)
The European Social Policy Model: Progress since the Early 1980s (2002) (13)
Decentralization and the post-war political economy (1999) (13)
Social security in Southern Europe: a comparative overview (1993) (12)
Leaving the Australian Labor Force: An Extended Encounter with the State (1997) (12)
Social expenditure and the Political Right: a methodological note (1986) (12)
Book Review: Stefan Svallfors (ed.) The Political Sociology of the Welfare State (2008) (12)
Historical and comparative perspectives on the Australian welfare state: a response to Rob Watts (1997) (11)
The Kemeny Thesis Revisited (2005) (11)
SWEDISH SOCIAL DEMOCRACY:. The Conditions of Success (1975) (10)
Introduction (The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare state) (2010) (10)
Policy Performance in the Democratic State: An Emergent Field of Study (2002) (10)
Democratic Politics, War and Catch-Up (1991) (9)
Federalism and the welfare state: AUSTRALIA (2002) (9)
Thirty wasted years: Australian social security development, 1950–80, in comparative perspective∗ (1987) (9)
Comparative Public Policy (1999) (9)
Australia and Sweden: The Politics of Economic Vulnerability (1987) (9)
The Policy Consequences of Proportional Representation: A Sceptical Commentary (1994) (9)
A Reply to Ulf Lindström: Review of The Social Democratic Image of Society ® (1979) (9)
Pressure Groups and the Permissive Society (1975) (9)
The new federalism, fiscal centralisation and public policy outcomes. by Kerry Barwise and Francis G. Castles (1991) (8)
On religion and public policy: The case for covariance (1994) (8)
Welfare and Equality in Capitalist Societies: How and Why Australia was Different (1989) (8)
The Welfare State and Democracy: On the Development of Social Security in Southern Europe, 1960–90 (2006) (7)
The Social Democratic Image of Society (Routledge Revivals) : A Study of the Achievements and Origins of Scandinavian Social Democracy in Comparative Perspective (2009) (7)
Australian welfare state expenditure revisited: Some implications for change (1990) (7)
On the Credulity of Capital: or Why Globalisation Does Not Prevent Variation in Domestic Policy-Making (1996) (7)
The Transformation in Gender Inequality in Tertiary Education (1989) (6)
The Real Issue for Future Comparative Policy Research: Does government matter? (2013) (6)
Public expenditure and population ageing: Why families of nations are different (2001) (6)
The Politics of Economic Vulnerability: A Comparison of Australia and Sweden (1987) (6)
Testing the limits of the metaphor: fordist and post-fordist life cycles in Australia and New Zealand. (1994) (5)
Politics and social insight (1973) (5)
The Ten Commandments of Comparative Industry Policy Analysis (1990) (5)
PATTERNS OF STATE EXPENDITURE IN EUROPE AND AMERICA (2009) (4)
Business and Government: A Typology of Pressure Group Activity (1969) (4)
Comparative Public Policy Analysis : Problems, Progress and Prospects (1987) (4)
The future of families: how society chooses: policy and values, past and future (2004) (4)
Putting the Economy First: Or Does Postmodernization Really Matter? (2000) (4)
Decisions, organizations and society : selected readings (1971) (4)
Political Stability and the Dominant Image of Society (1974) (4)
An ABC of R & D: Is Australia's Record as Black as It Has Been Painted? (1989) (3)
Has three decades of comparative public policy scholarship been focusing on the wrong question (2011) (3)
History and Public Policy vs. History of Public Policy@@@The Comparative History of Public Policy (1991) (3)
Terra Incognito Australis: A Search for New Directions in Comparative Public Policy Analysis (1985) (3)
The Political Functions of Organized Groups: The Swedish Case (1973) (3)
The political economy of the people's welfare: an initial presentation (1989) (3)
Population Ageing and the Public Purse: Australia in Comparative Perspective (2000) (3)
Realism and Reality: Australia's Trade Union Movement Seeks a New Policy Strategy (1988) (3)
Policy options for full employment: Which way forward for Australia (1992) (2)
Social Protection in the Post-War Era: The OECD Experience (1999) (2)
Population Ageing and the Public Purse (2004) (2)
Present Dilemas for Non-Government Welfare Providers (1992) (2)
Under what circumstances does change really matter (1986) (2)
Towards more comprehensive measures of social support: adding in the impact of taxes and private Spending or netting out the impact of politics on redistribution? (2006) (2)
Birth-rate Blues: A Real Crisis in the Making? (2004) (1)
How not to make friends and influence people. by Frank Castles and Rowley Spiers (1991) (1)
Towards a Theoretical Analysis of Pressure Politics (1966) (1)
A European Welfare State Convergence (2004) (1)
Modem Welfare States: A Comparative View of Trends and Prospects , Robert R. Friedmann, Neil Gilbert and Moshe Sherer, eds. Brighton: Wheatsheaf Books, 1987. (1987) (1)
Three worlds of welfare capitalism or four? / Francis G. Castles and Deborah Mitchell (1990) (1)
Scandinavian social democracy: Achievements and problems (1978) (1)
On Income Inequality and Democracy: Theories and Findings in Search of a Viable Data Base (1999) (1)
Politics and Social Insight (Routledge Revivals) (2009) (1)
Federalism and the Welfare State: Contents (2005) (1)
Prospects for a European welfare state : lessons from welfare state development in six OECD-Federations (2005) (0)
Democratic politics and policy outcomes (1979) (0)
Politics and social insight (1973) (0)
Globalising the Antipodes? Policy and Politics in Australia and New Zealand. Special Issue Australian Journal of Political Science (2006) (0)
Book Reviews (1966) (0)
Comprar The Welfare State Reader | Christopher Pierson | 9780745635552 | Wiley (2008) (0)
The sociological perspective (1973) (0)
Basic Income and the Labor Contract Basic Income and the Labor Contract Basic Income and the Labor Contract Basic Income and the Labor Contract 2. Basic Income Arguments from Justice and Objections from Their Critics (0)
Explaining Expenditure Outcomes (2004) (0)
On Income Inequality and Democracy--Seeking a Viable Data Base (特集 Political Economy of Growth and Equity) (1997) (0)
Reviews : Elim Papadakis & Peter Taylor-Gooby, The Private Provision of Public Welfare (Wheatsheaf, 1987) (1990) (0)
On Income Inequality and Democracy―Seeking a Viable Data Base― (1997) (0)
Editorial Statement (1970) (0)
Book Reviews (1967) (0)
On Crises, Myths, and Measurement (2004) (0)
Questions in Soviet government and politics (1976) (0)
Towards industrially sustainable development? Industry policy under the Hawke Government. (2011) (0)
Book Reviews: Nordic Welfare States in the European Context, Nordic Welfare States in the European Context (2001) (0)
On almond's theory of group types (1970) (0)
Towards a Steady-state Welfare State? (2010) (0)
The Politics of Social Policy in the United States.Margaret Weir , Ann Shola Orloff , Theda Skocpol (1989) (0)
5The analysis of conflict as a metatheoretical orientation (2009) (0)
Pressure Groups and Political Culture (Routledge Revivals) : A Comparative Study (2009) (0)
Do Critics Always Matter? Or, A Comedy of Errors (1980) (0)
The Possibility of Politics: A Study in the Political Economy of the Welfare State.Stein Ringen (1989) (0)
Article (1991) (0)
The Structure of Social Provision (2004) (0)
Book Reviews : Risto Alapuro: State and Revolution in Fin land. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988 (1991) (0)
A Brief Reply to Mancur Olson's Response (1991) (0)
6The Anglo-American system—the autonomous interest group (2009) (0)
Thomas R. Dye and Virginia Gray (eds.), The Determinants of Public Policy , Lexington Books, 1980, 227+vii pp., £14.00. Warren J. Samuels and Larry L. Wade (eds.), Taxing and Spending Policy , Lexington Books, 1981, 189 +xvi pp., £13.50. (1982) (0)
Politics and social insight (1973) (0)
Towards an organisational model of marital instability (1988) (0)
Book Review: Globalization and the Future of the Welfare State (2006) (0)
Federalism and the Welfare State: Preface (2005) (0)
The Transformation of Old Age Security: Class and Politics in the American Welfare State.Jill Quadagno (1988) (0)
Models for Europe? The lessons of other institutional designs (2000) (0)
2The emergent nations (2009) (0)
Rationality, Personal Space, and the Political Order (1981) (0)
1Pressure group theory and its problems (2009) (0)
The Impact of Australian Institutions (2000) (0)
3On theory, evidence and insight (2009) (0)
Federalism and the Welfare State: Note on illustrations (2005) (0)
Reviews : Stuart Macintyre, Winners and Losers (Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1985) (1987) (0)

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