Real Worlds without quite enough reality

[erudito]

The Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism is a serious scholarly attempt to compare the three basic types of Western welfare policy regimes-liberal, social democratic and corporatist. The study centres on data from three compatible longitudinal studies from each of the three types of policy regimes. The US for the liberal regime, the Netherlands for

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A wonderful case study of the academic echo chamber

[anonymous]

These guys seem to have produced a wonderful case study demonstrating what happens when the academic environment becomes a politically correct echo chamber. They just ignore the most interesting variable because it doesn't fit into the consensus, and because there is a consensus they will be allowed to get away with it!

The damage this causes is much harder to see when (as so often) the academic research is on a trivial subject from the outset, or the researchers are incompetent. Much clearer here though, where the issues are important and the most of the research appears to be reasonably solid. Thanks for pointing this out.