CONTENTS // List of Figures ix // List of Tables x // Abbreviations xii // List of Contributors xiv // Introduction. Investigating the Welfare State at Century’s End 1 // Paul Pierson // Part I. Sources of Pressure on the Contemporary // Welfare State // 1. Round Up the Usual Suspects! Globalization, Domestic // Politics, and Welfare State Change * 17 // Herman Schwartz // 2. The Dynamics of Welfare State Expansion: Trade Openness, // De-industrialization, and Partisan Politics 45 // Torben Iversen // 3. Post-industrial Pressures on the Mature Welfare States 80 // Paul Pierson // Part II. Adjustment Dynamics: Economic Actors and Systems of Interest Intermediation // 4. Welfare State and Production Regimes in the Era of // Retrenchment 107 // Evelyne Huber and John D. Stephens // 5. Comparative Institutional Advantages of Welfare State // Regimes and New Coalitions in Welfare State Reforms 146 // Philip Manow // 6. The Political Economy of Social Pacts: ‘Competitive // Corporatism’ and European Welfare Reform 165 // Martin Rhodes // Contents // viii // Part ?. Adjustment Dynamics Parties, // Elections, and Political Institutions // 7. Political Institutions and Welfare State Restructuring: // The Impact of Institutions on Social Policy Change in // Developed Democracies 197 // Duane Swank // 8. Political Institutions, Veto Points, and the Process of // Welfare State Adaptation 238 // Giuliano Bonoli // 9. Partisan Competition and Welfare State Retrenchment: // When Do Politicians
Choose Unpopular Policies? 265 // Herbert Kitschelt // Part IV. Comparing Policy Domains // 10. The Comparative Political Economy of Pension Reform 305 // John Myles and Paul Pierson // 11. Who Pays for Health Care Reform? 334 // Susan Giaimo // 12. Labour Market Regimes under Threat? Sources of // Continuity in Germany, Britain, and Sweden 368 // Stewart Wood // Conclusion // 13. Coping with Permanent Austerity: Welfare State Restructuring // in Affluent Democracies 410 // Paul Pierson // References 457 // Index 501