Research

Articles:

Frizell, J., Grünewald, A.; Schmitt, C., & Obinger, H. (2025). “Armed conflicts and the expansion of old-age pensions in the Global South.” Global Social Policy, 26(1), 30-51. doi: 10.1177/14680181261429928.

Frizell, J. (2025). “The fiscal reckoning of war: Contemporary armed conflict and progressive income taxation.” Journal of Peace Research, 62(6), 1951 –1967. doi: 10.1177/00223433241300805.

Frizell, J., Muliavka, V., Obinger H., & Schmitt, C. (2025). “War, solidarity and welfare attitudes: Survey evidence from the war in Ukraine.” Journal of European Public Policy, 33(5), 1257-1285. doi: 10.1080/13501763.2025.2463640.

Frizell, J. (2024). “Rallying fiscal patriotism: War taxes in the contemporary world.” Comparative Political Studies, vol. 57(8): 1375-1405. doi: 10.1177/00104140231194061.

Book chapters:

Frizell, J. (2022). “War and Modern Taxation” in Genschel, Philipp & Laura Seelkopf (eds.) Global Taxation. How Modern Taxes Conquered the World, Oxford University Press.

Other publications:

Muliavka, V. & Frizell, J. (2025). “Fairness Under Fire: Origins and Implications of Ukrainians’ Demand for Tax Progressivity”, Ukrainian Analytical Digest, no. 13 (June 2025): 6-11.

“Who should pay for the COVID-19 crisis? Learning from war-time experiences”, blog post at EUIdeas, 16.09.2021. 

Work in progress:

• The political economy of welfare investment in post-war Angola
• Civil war outcomes and the dynamics of social policy expansion.
• Indirect governance in war-time Syria: outsourcing warfare and welfare.
• The political function of public debt in post-war Lebanon.
• Public finances and private enrichment in war-time Yemen.