Llorenç Soler 2025Llorenç Soler-Buades is a PhD Fellow at Institute of Government and Public Policy the (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona). His research interests fall into the broad area of comparative social policy, with a particular emphasis on labour market, minimum income reform, as well as party politics. He has been actively involved in the Horizon 2020-funded Euroship project, Closing Gaps in Social Citizenship (2020–2023). His work has been published in Social Policy & Administration, Journal of Social Policy, and Southern European Society and Politics.

CONTACT

Email: llorenc.soler@uab.cat
Twitter: @llorenc_soler
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ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7028-5254
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AREAS OF INTEREST

Comparative social policy & social protection systems, party politics, minimum income, work-related conditionality, platform work.

PROJECTS

  • EUROSHIP Project: Closing gaps in social citizenship
  • SOLID Project: Policy Crisis and Crisis Politics (as a research assistant)
  • Inequalities and Social Pacts. Funded by Observatorio Social La Caixa.

PUBLICATIONS

  • Soler-Buades, L. (2024). No welfare without workfare? Revisiting varieties of minimum income schemes in Europe (2008–2022). Social Policy and Administration. Early View.
    https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.13077
  • Soler-Buades, L. (2025). The Politics of Minimum Income Reform in Spain: Explaining Unexpected and Consensual Path Departure. Journal of Social Policy (forthcoming).
  • León, M., Alvariño, M., & 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.
    https://doi.org/10.1080/13608746.2022.2132614
  • León, M., Alvariño, M., & Soler-Buades, L. (2022). Una cultura política poco acostumbrada al diálogo. In L. Ayala (Ed.), Desigualdad y pacto social (pp. 165-180). Observatorio Social de La Caixa.
  • Ibáñez, Z., Soler-Buades, L., León, M., & Maestripieri, L. (2023). Intersectional inequalities and minimum income schemes: Do last resort safety nets help some people more than others? EUROSHIP Working Paper No. 32.
  • Ibáñez, Z., León, M., Soler-Buades, L., & Alvariño, M. (2021). Fostering work-life balance for precarious workers: Culture and social protection systems in comparative perspective. EUROSHIP Working Paper No. 5.