How much change? Pierson and the welfare state revisited
重新审视皮尔逊关于福利国家的观点，发现全球化被低估的证据不足，但左右政治的作用需要重新评估；社会保障已发生变化，建议研究者关注变化方向而非量化，并将时间维度纳入分析。
This article reconsiders Paul Pierson’s influential ideas about the welfare state. It suggests that his downplaying of globalisation is supported by the evidence, but that his assertion of new politics requires qualification in the light of evidence about the role of Left–Right politics. Social security has changed, albeit in ways not easily captured by temporal comparisons of benefit levels and the like. The paper concludes with a plea for researchers to focus on the direction of change, rather than quantifying change, and to integrate time into welfare state analyses.