Dr Georg Picot

Georg Picot is a Departmental Lecturer in Comparative Social Policy in the Department of Social Policy and Inervention. He obtained his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Milan and worked at the Collegio Carlo Alberto in Turin as well as at the University of Heidelberg. His current research examines, generally, the relation between political parties and the welfare state. More specifically, he is interested in how welfare states shape the social composition of national electorates and, hence, party politics. 

Substantively, he is interested in the following social policy areas:

• ·         politics of social policy 

• ·         labour market transformations 

• ·         labour market policy 

• ·         family policy 

Georg is interested in supervising MPhil and DPhil students who intend to work on any of the following broad themes: 

• ·         explaining welfare state reforms

• ·         political parties and the welfare state

• ·         atypical employment 

• ·         post-industrialization and social policy

• ·         labour market reforms

Selected publications 

Häusermann, S., Picot, G. & Geering, D. (forthcoming): 'Rethinking Party Politics and the Welfare State: Recent Advances in the Literature', British Journal of Political Science.

Picot, G. (2012): Politics of Segmentation: Party Competition and Social Protection in Europe, London and New York: routledge.

Marx, P. & Picot, G. (2011): ‘Die sozialpolitischen Präferenzen der Mittelschicht: Antriebskraft oder Bremse?’, Sozialer Fortschritt 60(12), pp. 289-295

Marx, P. & Picot, G. (2011): ‘The Political Preferences of Non-Standard Workers in Germany’, paper presented at Annual Meeting of SASE 2011, 23-25 June 2011, Madrid. 

Picot, G. (2009): ‘Party Competition and Reforms of Unemployment Benefits in Germany: How a Small Change in Electoral Demand Can Make a Big Difference’, in German Politics 18(2), pp. 155-179. 

Picot, G. (2009): ‘The Impact of Party Competition: Why Unemployment Benefits in Italy and Germany Diverged after World War II’, URGE Working Paper 3/2009. 

Schmid, J. & Picot, G. (2001): ‘”Welfare to Work“ bei Blair und Schröder – eine Idee, zwei Realitäten?’, in G. Hirscher and R. Sturm (eds): Die Strategie des ‘Dritten Weges’. Legitimation und Praxis sozialdemokratischer Regierungspolitik, Munich: Olzog, pp. 229-264.