Philip Rathgeb

Philip's research interests are in comparative political economy and comparative politics, with a particular focus on welfare states, industrial relations, party politics, trade unions, and the radical right. Drawing on a grant from the German Research Foundation (DFG), his recent research has examined the impact of populist radical right parties on social and economic policies in the advanced capitalist democracies. Previously, he focused on the policy responses of political actors to inequality and precarity in post-industrial labour markets and welfare states, both at the EU level and nation state level. More recently, he has taken an interest in the political economy of eco-social policies and their implications for the institutional landscape and distributive priorities of welfare states. At CEU Vienna, he will be developing a new research project on the relationship between welfare, democracy, and autocracy in the 21st century.