Jakub Sowula

Jakub Sowula studied political science, economics and mathematics (first state examination) at the University of Tübingen. His thesis, which was awarded as outstanding thesis by Polis e.V., focused on welfare state change in Germany, Italy, Sweden and the USA (1980-2018) as crucial cases of welfare regimes.

After his graduation, he worked at the University of Tübingen as a research assistant for the research unit Comparative Public Policy and completed his second state examination at the Seminar for Training and Further Education of Teachers in Rottweil, Germany.

Since December 2020, he is as a Ph.D. student in Political Science at the University of Tübingen on the topic of young people's political competencies in the context of welfare support. In addition, since September 2020 he is a researcher at the Berne University of Teacher Education (Berne, Switzerland).

His research interests include public policy research, focusing mainly on social policies from a comparative perspective. Key topics of expertise in this context are welfare state change and welfare regimes, as well as (young) people's welfare deservingness opinions and welfare attitudes. Besides comparative social policy, his interests lie in political education and how to use AI in research.

Sowula, J. (2024). Deservingness and Welfare Attitudes Through Young

Eyes: The Future of the Swiss Welfare State. Swiss Political Science Review, 30(3), 280–308. https://doi.org/10.1111/spsr.12606

Sowula, J. (2024). Mind the gap: Young people and welfare-state related knowledge in deservingness and welfare attitude research. 

Journal of European Social Policy, 34(1), 101–114. https://doi.org/10.1177/09589287231222884

Sowula, J., Gehrig, F., Scruggs, L. A., Seeleib-Kaiser, M., & Ramalho Tafoya, G. (2024). The end of welfare states as we know them? A multidimensional perspective. Social Policy & Administration, 58(5), 785–799. https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12990

Sowula, J., & Seeleib-Kaiser, M. (2023). The perceived dilemma between debt reduction and a fair society: Saving for a rainy day without increasing poverty? In B. Greve (Ed.), Welfare States in a Turbulent Era (pp. 48–70). Edward Elgar.

Seeleib-Kaiser, M., & Sowula, J. (2020). The genesis of welfare regime theory. In C. Aspalter (Ed.), Ideal Types in Comparative Social Policy (pp. 41–60). Routledge.

Reinprecht, C., Seeleib-Kaiser, M., & Sowula, J. (2018). Mythen der vergleichenden Sozialpolitikforschung? Sozialer Fortschritt, 67(8–9), 783–805.

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