Paul Bridgen

School of Social Sciences
University of Southampton
Southampton
SO17 1BJ

Position: Senior Lecturer in Social Policy
Telephone: (023) 8059 6709
Email: Paul.Bridgen@soton.ac.uk

Biography

Paul Bridgen (Senior Lecturer in Social Policy) joined the Division in September 1998. He took a BA (Hons) in History at the University of Birmingham and then gained an MSc in Politics at the London School of Economics. In 2001, he was awarded a PhD by the University of London for a thesis on the early British Labour Party's development of a foreign policy.

Research interests

Much of my most recent work has been on pension policy and politics. Between 2003 and 2006, I was the joint academic coordinator (with Traute Meyer) of a European Union-funded six-country research project on pensions and social inclusion. This project assessed the distributive implications of recent reforms in European pension systems on the basis of micro-simulations of pension outcomes from both the public and private sector for a range of vulnerable citizens. This work has resulted in the publication of a book (edited with Traute Meyer), Private Pensions versus Social Inclusion? (Edward Elgar) and a number of published and submitted papers. Building on this research, I am currently researching occupational pension developments in Britain and Germany as part of the Anglo-German Foundation’s Creating Sustainable Growth in Europe research initiative. This aims to establish new insights on the under-researched area of private social-policy making. I also have longstanding interests in the more general politics of policy-making

Work in progress

Accepted for publication in West European Politics, 2009: Paul Bridgen and Traute Meyer: The politics of occupational pension reform in Britain and the Netherlands: the power of market discipline in liberal and corporatist regimes

Roles

Examinations Officer (SSP)

Selected publications

Books
	Paul Bridgen & Jane Lewis 1999 Elderly People and the Boundary Between Health and Social Care 1946-91. The Nuffield Trust. On-line abstract, (ISBN: 1-902089-39-1)
	Paul Bridgen & Rodney Lowe 1998 Welfare Policy Under the Conservatives 1951-1964. Public Record Office. On-line abstract, (ISBN: 1 873162 46 4)

Edited books and volumes
	Bernard Harris and Paul Bridgen (eds) 2007 Charity and mutual aid in Europe and North America since 1800. New York: Routledge. On-line abstract, (ISBN: 978-0-415-36559-8), (ISSN: 978-0-415-36559-8)
	T. Meyer; P. Bridgen; B. Riedmüller (eds) 2007 Private Pensions versus Social Inclusion? Non-state Arrangements for Citizens at Risk in Europe Private Pensions versus Social Inclusion? Non-state Provision for Citizens at Risk in Europe. www.e-elgar.co.uk: Edward Elgar. On-line abstract

Chapters in books
	P. Bridgen; T. Meyer 2008 Politically dominant but socially flawed: projected pension levels for citizens at risk in six European multi-pillar pension systems. In M. Seeleib-Kaiser (ed.), Welfare State Transformations: Comparative Perspectives (pp. 111-131). Palgrave Macmillan.

Articles in journals
	P. Bridgen; T. Meyer 2009 The politics of occupational pension reform in Britain and the Netherlands: the power of market discipline in liberal and corporatist regimes. West European Politics , Volume 32, Issue 3, 586 – 610. On-line abstract On-line article
	P. Bridgen; T. Meyer 2009 Social rights, social justice and pension outcomes in four multi-pillar systems. Journal of Comparative Social Welfare, Volume 25, issue 2, 129-137. On-line abstract On-line article
	T. Meyer; P. Bridgen 2008 Class, Gender and Chance: the social division of welfare and the occupational pensions in the UK . Ageing & Society, 28 (3), 353-381 . On-line abstract On-line article
	Bridgen, P 2006 Social capital, community empowerment and public health: policy developments in the UK since 1997. Policy and Politics, 34 (1): , 27-50., (ISSN: 1470-8442)
	Bridgen, P 2006 A Straitjacket with Wriggle Room: The Beveridge Report, the Treasury and the Exchequer's Pension Liability, 1942-59. Twentieth Century British History, , 17 (1): , 1-25., (ISSN: 0955-2359)
	P. Bridgen; T. Meyer 2005 When do benevolent employers change their mind? Explaining the Retrenchment of Defined-benefit Pensions in Britain. Social Policy and Administration, 39 (7), 764-785. On-line abstract, (ISSN: 0144-5596)
	Paul Bridgen 2004 Evaluating the empowering potential of community-based health schemes: The case of community health policies in the UK since 1997. Community Development Journal, 39 (3), 289-302., (ISSN: 0010-3802)
	Bridgen, P 2003 Joint Planning across the Health/Social Services Boundary since 1946. Local Government Studies, 29(3), 17-31., (ISSN: 0300-3930)
	Bridgen, P 2001 Hospitals, Geriatric Medicine, and the Long-term Care of Elderly People, 1946-1976. Social History of Medicine, 14(3), 507-523., (ISSN: 0951-631X)
	Paul Bridgen 2000 The One Nation Idea and State Welfare: The Conservatives and Pensions in the 1950s. Contemporary British History, volume 14 number 3 On-line abstract, (ISSN: 1361-9462)
	Paul Bridgen 2000 The State, Redundancy Pay, and Economic Policy-Making in the Early 1960s. Twentieth Century British History, volume 11 number 3 On-line abstract, (ISSN: 0955-2359)

Web based
	P. Bridgen; T. Meyer 2005 Towards a ‘balanced’ approach to pensions reform? Individuals, the state and employers in the restructuring of post-retirement income in the UK. Discussion paper of the Pensions Institute, Cass Business School, City of London. 9.PI-0509 On-line article