Lyle Scruggs received his Ph.D. from Duke University in 1998. He teaches comparative politics, West European politics, and comparative political economy. His current research focuses on globalization and welfare policy reform in North America and Western Europe. He has just completed a three-year data collection project on the structure of social insurance programs since the 1960s in eighteen countries. His other main research interest is comparative environmental policy.

Curriculum Vitae

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Recent Publications

• “What Mutliple Regression Got to Do with It? A Comment on Limits and Alternatives to Michael Shalev” Comparative Social Research 24, 2007: 315-330
• “The Generosity of Social Insurance, 1971-2002” Oxford Review of Economic Policy. 22(3), 2006: 349-64. 
• “The Material Consequences of Welfare States:  Benefit Generosity and Absolute Poverty in 16 OECD countries.” (with James Allan).  Comparative Political Studies 39(7), 2006: 880-904.
• “Welfare State Decommodification in Eighteen OECD Countries: A Replication and Revision (with James Allan) Journal of European Social Policy 16(1), 2006, 55-72 (with James Allan)
• "Political Partisanship and Welfare State Reform in Advanced Industrial Societies" American Journal of Political Science , Vol. 48, No. 3, 2004, pp. 496-512 (with James Allan).
• Sustaining Abundance: Environmental Performance in Industrial Democracies . Cambridge UP 2003.
• "The Ghent System and Union Membership in Europe, 1970-1995." Political Research Q , June 2002.
• (with Peter Lange) "Where Have All the Members Gone?: Globalization and National Labor Market Institutions." JoP , February 2002.

Papers

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Courses

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CEPP Survey

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