Comparative studies

Center for Comparative Welfare State Research

About the Center for Comparative Welfare State Research

Under the direction of Academic Board, the Center’s research program focuses upon three topical areas of interest related to current developments in modern welfare states:

Agency and social inequality in later life

The concept of ‘Active ageing’ has become a central reference point in political and academic reflections as to how to organize the ‘good life’ in older ages. However, the ‘Active ageing’ concept is polysemic and subject to different theoretical approaches, analytical perspectives, and empirical...