Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures
About the Contributors
Stephan Leibfried: Preface
Stephan Leibfried: A Note on the Jacket Illustration
1: Francis G. Castles, Stephan Leibfried, Jane Lewis, Herbert Obinger, and Christopher Pierson: Introduction
Part I Philosophical Justifications and Critiques of the Welfare State
2: Stuart White: Ethics
3: Christopher Pierson and Matthieu Leimgruber: Intellectual Roots
4: Desmond King & Fiona Ross: Critics and Beyond
Part II History
5: Stein Kuhnle & Anne Sander: The Emergence of the Western Welfare State
6: Frank Nullmeier & Frank-Xaver Kaufmann: Post-War Welfare State Development
Part III Approaches
7: Edwin Amenta & Alexander Hicks: Research Methods
8: Willem Adema & Peter Whiteford: Public and Private Social Welfare
9: Mary Daly: Families versus State and Market
10: Einar Øverbye: Disciplinary Perspectives
Part IV Inputs and Actors
11: Jan Zutavern & Martin Kohli: Needs and Risks
12: Torben Iversen: Democracy and Capitalism
13: Bernhard Ebbinghaus: Unions and Employers
14: Manfred G. Schmidt: Parties
15: Ellen M. Immergut: Political Institutions
16: Stefan Svallfors: Public Attitudes
17: Ann Shola Orloff: Gender
18: Kees van Kersbergen & Philip Manow: Religion
19: Stephen Castles & Carl-Ulrik Schierup: Migration and Ethnic Minorities
20: Gerda Falkner: European Union
21: Klaus Armingeon: Intergovernmental Organizations
22: Duane Swank: Globalization
Part V Policies
23: Herbert Obinger & Uwe Wagschal: Social Expenditure and Revenues
24: Karl Hinrichs & Julia Lynch: Old-Age Pensions
25: Richard Freeman & Heinz Rothgang: Health
26: August Oesterle & Heinz Rothgang: Long-term Care
27: Olli Kangas: Work Accident and Sickness Benefits
28: Mark Priestley: Disability
29: Joakim Palme, Eero Carroll & Ola Sjöberg: Unemployment Insurance
30: Lane Kenworthy: Labour Market Activation
31: Thomas Bahle, Michaela Pfeifer & Claus Wendt: Social Assistance
32: Jonathan Bradshaw & Naomi Finch: Family Benefits and Services
33: Tony Fahey & Michelle Norris: Housing
34: Marius R. Busemeyer & Rita Nikolai: Education
Part VI Policy Outcomes
35: John Stephens: Social Rights of Citizenship
36: Peter Saunders: Inequality and Poverty
37: Isabela Mares: Macroeconomic Outcomes
38: Jonah Levy: Welfare Retrenchment
Part VII Worlds of Welfare
39: Wilhelm A. Arts & John Gelissen: Models of the Welfare State
Established Welfare States
40: Mikko Kautto: The Nordic Countries
41: Bruno Palier: Continental Western Europe
42: Maurizio Ferrera: The South European Countries
43: Francis G. Castles: The English-speaking Countries
Emerging Welfare States
44: Evelyne Huber & Juan Bogliaccini: Latin America
45: Ito Peng & Joseph Wong: East Asia
46: Linda. J. Cook: Eastern Europe and Russia
Part VIII Prospects
47: Howard Glennerster: The Sustainability of Western Welfare States
48: Ian Gough & Goran Therborn: The Global Future of Welfare States

About the Author

Francis G. Castles is Professor Emeritus at the University of Edinburgh and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the Research School of Social Sciences at Australian National University and at the Center for Social Policy Research (CeS) in Bremen. Stephan Leibfried is Professor of Public Policy at the University of Bremen, Director of the Collaborative Research Center "Transformations of the State" (TranState) and member of the Unit History and Institutions of
the Center for Social Policy Research (CeS) there. Jane Lewis is Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science, a Fellow of the British Academy, and a Founding
Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. Herbert Obinger is Professor of Comparative Public and Social Policy at the University of Bremen, directs the Unit History and Institutions of the Center for Social Policy Research (CeS) and directs two projects in the Collaborative Research Center "Transformations of the State" (TranState). Christopher Pierson is Professor of Politics at the University of Nottingham and Director of Teaching and Lead Editor of the British Journal of Politics and
International Relations.

Reviews

`Review from previous edition This landmark book achieves its aspiration to provide the "most authoritative survey and critique of the welfare state yet published"... it should be part of the foundation collection in any college library. Summing Up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduates and above.'
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`This is a landmark book for international scholarship in social policy. It has been compiled by some of the leading international scholars in the field and published, in some style, by Oxford University Press all academics in the field should ensure that university libraries acquire copies of the book. It will prove to be an essential reference for all those studying social policy, as well as many in politics, public administration, sociology and other
cognate subjects. More generally, it is attention to detail, co-existing with breadth of vision and reach, which make this such an attractive book. The editors and their contributors are addressing most of
the big questions that underpin the history of the welfare state and its future prospects, and they are doing this on an international scale. If you are not passionate about social policy before encountering this Handbook, then surely you will be once you have begun to delve into it.'
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