Manuel Alvariño Vázquez

Hi! My name is Manuel Alvariño Vázquez. I am a postdoctoral researcher at the CBS (Copenhagen) since May 2025. I completed my PhD at the European University Institute (Florence) in 2025.

I investigate the politics of welfare state reform from a comparative perspective. Most of my research is about political parties and work-family policy in Western Europe, but I also work on broader political economy and welfare transformations, labour market regulation, gender and morality policy, and Mediterranean party politics.

In this website you will find access to all my publications and preprints.

Accepted forthcoming research

Alvariño, M. (forthcoming). Redefining Influence: How a Feminist Advocacy Group Reformed Paternity Leave in Spain through Insider Women’s Alliances. Journal of Public Policy.

Alvariño, M. and León M. (forthcoming). The Politics of Family and Childcare Policy Reform: Do parties still matter? in Rostgaard, T. and Ranci, C. (Eds.) ‘Research Handbook on Social Care Policy’, Edward Elgar Publishing.

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Alvariño, M. and León, M. (forthcoming). Riding Social Investment Waves: partisan agreements in Spain's unstable economic currents, in Hemerick, A. and Bokhorst, D. (Eds.) ‘Governing the Welfare Commons’, Oxford University Press.

León, M., Ibañez, Z, Alvariño, M. and Offredi, A. (forthcoming). Work-life conflicts in demanding labour markets, in Halvorsen, R., León, M., Pfau-Effinger, B., Schoyen, M. A., Grages, C. and Zyab, I. (Eds.) ‘The Capacitating Welfare State: Closing gaps in European social citizenship’, Edward Elgar Publishing.

Published research

Alvariño, M. (2025). Conservative Parties, Progressive Policies: The politics of the ongoing gender revolution. Florence: European University Institute, SPS, PhD Thesis.

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Alvariño, M. (2025). Care at the Crossroads: How policy feedback shaped competing feminist advocacy for parental leave reform in Spain, Politics & Policy.

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Alvariño, M. and Thies, M. (2024). Conviction or Consent? Tracing the Influence of Coalition Partners on Family Policy under Centre-Right Ministers, Government and Opposition.

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Alvariño, M. (2024). Partisan politics and feedback effects: comparing defamilialization by center-right parties across six familistic countries, Politics & Society.

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León, M., Alvariño, M., and Soler-Buades, L. (2022). Explaining Morality Policy Coalitions in Spanish Parliamentary Votes: The Interaction of the Church-State Conflict and Territorial Politics, South European Society and Politics 27 (2), 197-222.

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León, M., Alvariño, M., and Soler, L. (2022). A Political Culture Unaccustomed to Dialogue. In L. Ayala (Ed.), Inequality and Social Contract (pp. 165–180). Observatorio Social Fundación La Caixa.

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Access to the full book

Ibañez, Z., León, M., Soler, L., and Alvariño, M. (2021). Fostering work-life balance for precarious workers: culture and social protection systems in comparative perspective. EUROSHIP Working Paper, Issue 5.

Link to the published working paper