Hi! My name is Manuel Alvariño Vázquez. Currently visiting the University of Zürich, I am about to finish my PhD at the European University Institute. I investigate the politics of welfare state and political economy transformation from a comparative perspective, with a focus on work-life balance policies. In this website you will find access to all my publications.

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

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

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.

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.


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

Accepted upcoming research

Alvariño, M. & León M. (accepted). 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. 

León, M., Ibañez, Z, Alvariño, M. and Offredi, A. (accepted). 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.