GERTRUDE SCHAFFNER GOLDBERG is Professor of Social Policy, Adelphi University School of Social Work, and was for a number of years the director of its Center for Social Policy. Professor Goldberg has published widely on issues of public assistance, the feminization of poverty, comparative social-welfare systems, and social administration. Among her earlier books is The Feminization of Poverty: Only in America? (Praeger, 1990) and Washington's New Poor Law: Welfare Reform and the Roads Not Taken: 1935 to the Present.MARGUERITE G. ROSENTHAL is Professor of Social Policy, School of Social Work, Salem State College. Her previously published works are on the Swedish welfare state, juvenile delinquency policy, and privatization.

• Introduction: Three Stages of Welfare Capitalism by Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg More than Reluctant: The United States of America by Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg Downloading the Welfare State, Canadian Style by Patricia M. Evans Sweden: Temporary Detour or New Directions? by Helen Lachs Ginsburg and Marguerite G. Rosenthal Diminishing Welfare: The Case of the United Kingdom by Jane Millar The Triple Exceptionalism of the French Welfare State by Mark Kesselman The Dismantling of Welfare in Germany by Gerhard Backer and Ute Klammer Diminishing Welfare: The Italian Case by nrica Morlicchio, Enrico Pugliese, and Elena Spinelli Hungary: Retrenchment Amid Radical Restructuring by Phineas Baxandall Is the Japanese-Style Welfare Society Sustainable? by Masami Nomura and Kimiko Kimoto Diminishing Welfare: Convergence toward a Liberal Model? by Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg

GERTRUDE SCHAFFNER GOLDBERG is Professor of Social Policy, Adelphi University School of Social Work, and was for a number of years the director of its Center for Social Policy. Professor Goldberg has published widely on issues of public assistance, the feminization of poverty, comparative social-welfare systems, and social administration. Among her earlier books is The Feminization of Poverty: Only in America? (Praeger, 1990) and Washington's New Poor Law: Welfare Reform and the Roads Not Taken: 1935 to the Present.MARGUERITE G. ROSENTHAL is Professor of Social Policy, School of Social Work, Salem State College. Her previously published works are on the Swedish welfare state, juvenile delinquency policy, and privatization.

• Introduction: Three Stages of Welfare Capitalism by Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg More than Reluctant: The United States of America by Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg Downloading the Welfare State, Canadian Style by Patricia M. Evans Sweden: Temporary Detour or New Directions? by Helen Lachs Ginsburg and Marguerite G. Rosenthal Diminishing Welfare: The Case of the United Kingdom by Jane Millar The Triple Exceptionalism of the French Welfare State by Mark Kesselman The Dismantling of Welfare in Germany by Gerhard Backer and Ute Klammer Diminishing Welfare: The Italian Case by nrica Morlicchio, Enrico Pugliese, and Elena Spinelli Hungary: Retrenchment Amid Radical Restructuring by Phineas Baxandall Is the Japanese-Style Welfare Society Sustainable? by Masami Nomura and Kimiko Kimoto Diminishing Welfare: Convergence toward a Liberal Model? by Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg

GERTRUDE SCHAFFNER GOLDBERG is Professor of Social Policy, Adelphi University School of Social Work, and was for a number of years the director of its Center for Social Policy. Professor Goldberg has published widely on issues of public assistance, the feminization of poverty, comparative social-welfare systems, and social administration. Among her earlier books is The Feminization of Poverty: Only in America? (Praeger, 1990) and Washington's New Poor Law: Welfare Reform and the Roads Not Taken: 1935 to the Present.MARGUERITE G. ROSENTHAL is Professor of Social Policy, School of Social Work, Salem State College. Her previously published works are on the Swedish welfare state, juvenile delinquency policy, and privatization.

• Introduction: Three Stages of Welfare Capitalism by Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg More than Reluctant: The United States of America by Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg Downloading the Welfare State, Canadian Style by Patricia M. Evans Sweden: Temporary Detour or New Directions? by Helen Lachs Ginsburg and Marguerite G. Rosenthal Diminishing Welfare: The Case of the United Kingdom by Jane Millar The Triple Exceptionalism of the French Welfare State by Mark Kesselman The Dismantling of Welfare in Germany by Gerhard Backer and Ute Klammer Diminishing Welfare: The Italian Case by nrica Morlicchio, Enrico Pugliese, and Elena Spinelli Hungary: Retrenchment Amid Radical Restructuring by Phineas Baxandall Is the Japanese-Style Welfare Society Sustainable? by Masami Nomura and Kimiko Kimoto Diminishing Welfare: Convergence toward a Liberal Model? by Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg