LIEPP and the Center of European Studies and Comparative Politics are glad to invite you to attend the seminar:  

The Past and the Future of Welfare State Politics 

Wednesday May 15th 2019

14h45 - 16h45

Room LIEPP

254 boulevard Saint Germain, 75007 Paris 

Please Register here 

Presentation: 

 Philipp Rehm

 Associate Professor at the Ohio State University 

 EURIAS fellow Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg

One of the most important purposes of the welfare state is to provide insurance and it is well known that information critically shapes the provision thereof. Yet, rather than playing the central role it warrants, information barely makes an appearance in the contemporary literature of welfare states in advanced industrialized countries. This is all the more surprising as we are living in an age of transformative changes in private insurance markets, spurred by the information revolution. These developments will reshape the politics of the welfare state, too. The talk offers a fresh perspective on the welfare state, putting the informational challenges characteristic for insurance markets front and center.

Discussion: 

 Bruno Palier

 CNRS, CEE et LIEPP