ABSTRACT
The previous chapter demonstrated how German and Italian work-family policies developed differently after 1990. While Germany focused on the expansion of the public provision of childcare and implemented a generous parental leave scheme especially in the mid-2000s, Italian work-family policies underwent only minor reforms. This chapter provides the first step of the empirical analyses that will explain these diverging paths. It presents multivariate regressions to examine how the development of normative beliefs and voting behavior shape party competition on work-family policies.
