"This book is a very clear presentation of the place of social insurance within the general national framework of social protection systems." Journal of European Social Policy

• Contents: Social insurance - an outmoded concept of social protection? ~ Jochen Clasen; Retrenchment or restructuring? The emergence of a multitiered welfare state in Denmark ~ Jon Kvist; Sweden: on the way from standard to basic security? ~ Ann-Charlotte Ståhlberg; Social insurance in Germany - dismantling or reconstruction? ~ Jochen Clasen; A 'liberal' dynamic in the transformation of the French social welfare system ~ Bruno Palier; Switzerland: institutions, reforms and the politics of consensual retrenchment ~ Giuliano Bonoli; The withering of social insurance in Britain ~ Angus Erskine; Social protection and social insurance in Portugal ~ Jack Hampson; Social insurance and the crisis of statism in Greece ~ Theodoros N. Papadopoulos; Social insurance in Hungary: the individualisation of the social? ~ Tony Maltby; Social security and social insurance in the Czech Republic ~ Mita Castle-Kanerova; Social insurance in Europe - adapting to change? ~ Angus Erskine and Jochen Clasen.

"This book is a very clear presentation of the place of social insurance within the general national framework of social protection systems." Journal of European Social Policy

• Contents: Social insurance - an outmoded concept of social protection? ~ Jochen Clasen; Retrenchment or restructuring? The emergence of a multitiered welfare state in Denmark ~ Jon Kvist; Sweden: on the way from standard to basic security? ~ Ann-Charlotte Ståhlberg; Social insurance in Germany - dismantling or reconstruction? ~ Jochen Clasen; A 'liberal' dynamic in the transformation of the French social welfare system ~ Bruno Palier; Switzerland: institutions, reforms and the politics of consensual retrenchment ~ Giuliano Bonoli; The withering of social insurance in Britain ~ Angus Erskine; Social protection and social insurance in Portugal ~ Jack Hampson; Social insurance and the crisis of statism in Greece ~ Theodoros N. Papadopoulos; Social insurance in Hungary: the individualisation of the social? ~ Tony Maltby; Social security and social insurance in the Czech Republic ~ Mita Castle-Kanerova; Social insurance in Europe - adapting to change? ~ Angus Erskine and Jochen Clasen.

"This book is a very clear presentation of the place of social insurance within the general national framework of social protection systems." Journal of European Social Policy

• Contents: Social insurance - an outmoded concept of social protection? ~ Jochen Clasen; Retrenchment or restructuring? The emergence of a multitiered welfare state in Denmark ~ Jon Kvist; Sweden: on the way from standard to basic security? ~ Ann-Charlotte Ståhlberg; Social insurance in Germany - dismantling or reconstruction? ~ Jochen Clasen; A 'liberal' dynamic in the transformation of the French social welfare system ~ Bruno Palier; Switzerland: institutions, reforms and the politics of consensual retrenchment ~ Giuliano Bonoli; The withering of social insurance in Britain ~ Angus Erskine; Social protection and social insurance in Portugal ~ Jack Hampson; Social insurance and the crisis of statism in Greece ~ Theodoros N. Papadopoulos; Social insurance in Hungary: the individualisation of the social? ~ Tony Maltby; Social security and social insurance in the Czech Republic ~ Mita Castle-Kanerova; Social insurance in Europe - adapting to change? ~ Angus Erskine and Jochen Clasen.