OLLI KANGAS is Research Professor at the Danish National Institute for Social Research in Copenhagen. His main research interest concerns causes and consequences of social institutions and comparative methods. He is author of The Politics of Social Rights. He has published numerous articles in refereed journals and edited books on the making of the welfare state, Institutional set-ups of social policy programmes and their consequences in terms of legitimacy and income distribution. JOAKIM PALME is Director of the Institute for Futures Studies and Professor at the Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University, Sweden. His work focuses on comparative welfare state research, particularly on pensions. He has published together with Walter Korpi on the welfare state and redistribution and the new politics of the welfare state, and with Olli Kangas on the public private mix in pension policy. From 1999-2001, he was Chairman of the Welfare Commission, which assessed the state of welfare in Sweden. He has previously written on the Nordic model in the context of the European Union.

• List of Tables List of Figures Notes on Contributors Preface Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations and Acronyms Social Policy and Economic Development in the Nordic Countries: An Introduction; O.Kangas & J.Palme Coming Late - Catching Up: The Formation of a Nordic Model; O.Kangas & J.Palme Voluntary State-Subsidized Social Insurance in the Advanced Industrialized World Since the 1890s: The Nordic Experience in Comparative Perspective; E.Carroll Empowering Social Policy: The Role of Social Care Services in Modern Welfare States; A.Anttonen Family Policy and Cross-National Patterns of Poverty; T.Ferrarini & K.Forssén Education and Equal Life-Chances: Investing in Children; G.Esping-Andersen Fighting Health and Income: One Important Road to Welfare and Development; J.Fritzell & O.Lundberg Does the Welfare State Harm Economic Growth? Sweden as a Strategic Test Case; W.Korpi Growth and Employment in the Nordic Welfare State in the 1990s: Crisis and Revival; J.Kiander How to Maintain a Big Tax Welfare State?; O.Sjöberg The Nordic Model of the Information Society: The Finnish Case; P.Himanen Does the Most Brilliant Future of the Nordic Model have to be in the Past?; O.Kangas & J.Palme Index

OLLI KANGAS is Research Professor at the Danish National Institute for Social Research in Copenhagen. His main research interest concerns causes and consequences of social institutions and comparative methods. He is author of The Politics of Social Rights. He has published numerous articles in refereed journals and edited books on the making of the welfare state, Institutional set-ups of social policy programmes and their consequences in terms of legitimacy and income distribution. JOAKIM PALME is Director of the Institute for Futures Studies and Professor at the Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University, Sweden. His work focuses on comparative welfare state research, particularly on pensions. He has published together with Walter Korpi on the welfare state and redistribution and the new politics of the welfare state, and with Olli Kangas on the public private mix in pension policy. From 1999-2001, he was Chairman of the Welfare Commission, which assessed the state of welfare in Sweden. He has previously written on the Nordic model in the context of the European Union.

• List of Tables List of Figures Notes on Contributors Preface Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations and Acronyms Social Policy and Economic Development in the Nordic Countries: An Introduction; O.Kangas & J.Palme Coming Late - Catching Up: The Formation of a Nordic Model; O.Kangas & J.Palme Voluntary State-Subsidized Social Insurance in the Advanced Industrialized World Since the 1890s: The Nordic Experience in Comparative Perspective; E.Carroll Empowering Social Policy: The Role of Social Care Services in Modern Welfare States; A.Anttonen Family Policy and Cross-National Patterns of Poverty; T.Ferrarini & K.Forssén Education and Equal Life-Chances: Investing in Children; G.Esping-Andersen Fighting Health and Income: One Important Road to Welfare and Development; J.Fritzell & O.Lundberg Does the Welfare State Harm Economic Growth? Sweden as a Strategic Test Case; W.Korpi Growth and Employment in the Nordic Welfare State in the 1990s: Crisis and Revival; J.Kiander How to Maintain a Big Tax Welfare State?; O.Sjöberg The Nordic Model of the Information Society: The Finnish Case; P.Himanen Does the Most Brilliant Future of the Nordic Model have to be in the Past?; O.Kangas & J.Palme Index