Project Area A
The A-projects either examine social policy impacts for a global sample or analyze all countries that have introduced a particular welfare program. The task of the projects in area A is to provide an overall assessment of social policy effects in the two outcome dimensions.
The projects primarily use effectiveness and in some cases efficiency as evaluation criteria, taking a global perspective and focusing on the macro-level outcomes. The six projects comprising area A focus on the impacts of individual social policies, and the timing of their introduction, or entire welfare states on the socioeconomic and political outcome dimensions from a global perspective.
