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<p>This symposium presents the proceedings of an Author Meets Critics round table devoted to Isabel M. Perera's The Welfare Workforce: Why Mental Health Care Varies Across Affluent Democracies (Cambridge University Press, 2025), chaired at the 2025 APSA Annual Conference in Vancouver. Drawing on a structured paired comparison of the United States, France, Sweden, and Norway, Perera argues that alliances between organized public-sector workers and independently organized managers generate the political coalitions necessary to sustain and expand mental health services — especially where beneficiaries lack the capacity to advocate for themselves. Four distinguished scholars — Daniel Béland, Ellen M. Immergut, Alan M. Jacobs, and Kimberly J. Morgan — engage critically with the book's theoretical framework, methodological contributions, and avenues for future research, before Isabel M. Perera offers her response.</p>

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Introduction to the roundtable: symposium on The Welfare Workforce

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    2026年5月25日

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  • Elisa Chelle

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This symposium presents the proceedings of an Author Meets Critics round table devoted to Isabel M. Perera's The Welfare Workforce: Why Mental Health Care Varies Across Affluent Democracies (Cambridge University Press, 2025), chaired at the 2025 APSA Annual Conference in Vancouver. Drawing on a structured paired comparison of the United States, France, Sweden, and Norway, Perera argues that alliances between organized public-sector workers and independently organized managers generate the political coalitions necessary to sustain and expand mental health services — especially where beneficiaries lack the capacity to advocate for themselves. Four distinguished scholars — Daniel Béland, Ellen M. Immergut, Alan M. Jacobs, and Kimberly J. Morgan — engage critically with the book's theoretical framework, methodological contributions, and avenues for future research, before Isabel M. Perera offers her response.