It is hard to exaggerate the theoretical contributions that The New Politics of the Welfare State makes. Numerous insights for future research agendas can be discerned in the volume ... an inspiring comparative book.

• I. SOURCES OF PRESSURE ON THE CONTEMPORARY WELFARE STATE ; Round Up the Usual Suspects! Globalization, Domestic Politics, and Welfare State Change ; The Dynamics of Welfare State Expansion: Trade Openness, De-industrailization and Partisan Politics ; Post-Industrial Pressure on Mature Welfare States ; II: ADJUSTMENT DYNAMICS: ECONOMIC ACTORS AND SYSTEMS OF INTEREST INTERMEDIATION ; Welfare States and production Regimes in an Era of Retrenchment ; Comparative Institutional Advantages of Welfare State regimes and New Coalitions in Welfare State Reforms ; The Political Economy of Social Pacts: 'Competitive Corporatism' and European Welfare Reforms ; INSTITUTIONS ; Political Institutions and Welfare State Restructuring ; Political Institutions, Veto Points, and the Process of Welfare State Adaptation ; IV: COMPARING POLICY DOMAINS ; The Comparative Political Economy of Pension Reform ; Who Pays for Health care Reform? ; Labour Market Regimes Under Threat? Sources of Continuity in Germany, Britain, and Sweden ; V. CONCLUSION ; Coping with Permanent Austerity: Welfare State Restructuring in Affluent Democracies

It is hard to exaggerate the theoretical contributions that The New Politics of the Welfare State makes. Numerous insights for future research agendas can be discerned in the volume ... an inspiring comparative book.

• I. SOURCES OF PRESSURE ON THE CONTEMPORARY WELFARE STATE ; Round Up the Usual Suspects! Globalization, Domestic Politics, and Welfare State Change ; The Dynamics of Welfare State Expansion: Trade Openness, De-industrailization and Partisan Politics ; Post-Industrial Pressure on Mature Welfare States ; II: ADJUSTMENT DYNAMICS: ECONOMIC ACTORS AND SYSTEMS OF INTEREST INTERMEDIATION ; Welfare States and production Regimes in an Era of Retrenchment ; Comparative Institutional Advantages of Welfare State regimes and New Coalitions in Welfare State Reforms ; The Political Economy of Social Pacts: 'Competitive Corporatism' and European Welfare Reforms ; INSTITUTIONS ; Political Institutions and Welfare State Restructuring ; Political Institutions, Veto Points, and the Process of Welfare State Adaptation ; IV: COMPARING POLICY DOMAINS ; The Comparative Political Economy of Pension Reform ; Who Pays for Health care Reform? ; Labour Market Regimes Under Threat? Sources of Continuity in Germany, Britain, and Sweden ; V. CONCLUSION ; Coping with Permanent Austerity: Welfare State Restructuring in Affluent Democracies

It is hard to exaggerate the theoretical contributions that The New Politics of the Welfare State makes. Numerous insights for future research agendas can be discerned in the volume ... an inspiring comparative book.

• I. SOURCES OF PRESSURE ON THE CONTEMPORARY WELFARE STATE ; Round Up the Usual Suspects! Globalization, Domestic Politics, and Welfare State Change ; The Dynamics of Welfare State Expansion: Trade Openness, De-industrailization and Partisan Politics ; Post-Industrial Pressure on Mature Welfare States ; II: ADJUSTMENT DYNAMICS: ECONOMIC ACTORS AND SYSTEMS OF INTEREST INTERMEDIATION ; Welfare States and production Regimes in an Era of Retrenchment ; Comparative Institutional Advantages of Welfare State regimes and New Coalitions in Welfare State Reforms ; The Political Economy of Social Pacts: 'Competitive Corporatism' and European Welfare Reforms ; INSTITUTIONS ; Political Institutions and Welfare State Restructuring ; Political Institutions, Veto Points, and the Process of Welfare State Adaptation ; IV: COMPARING POLICY DOMAINS ; The Comparative Political Economy of Pension Reform ; Who Pays for Health care Reform? ; Labour Market Regimes Under Threat? Sources of Continuity in Germany, Britain, and Sweden ; V. CONCLUSION ; Coping with Permanent Austerity: Welfare State Restructuring in Affluent Democracies