Zoe Irving is Senior Lecturer in Comparative, International and Global Social Policy at the University of York. Her current research interests include the welfare impact of the politics of austerity and the relationship between size and shape in welfare states. Menno Fenger is associate professor of Public Administration at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is currently is the project manager of INSPIRES, an EU-FP7 funded research programme and his research focuses on processes of long-term policy change. John Hudson is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy in the Department of Social Policy & Social Work at the University of York. His main interests are in the areas of comparative social policy, political economy of welfare and the policy making process.
