Survival of the European welfare state

 Content: Pt. I. European welfare states in perspective. 1. Introduction: growth, adjustments and survival of European welfare states / Stein Kuhnle and Matti Alestalo. 2. The declining resistance of welfare states to change? / Kees Van Kersbergen --
 Pt. II. National welfare state reforms in the 1990s: comparative and case studies. 3. Nordic welfare states in the 1990s: institutional stability, signs of divergence / Pal Eitrheim and Stein Kuhnle. 4. The Finnish welfare state in the 1990s: a long-term perspective / Matti Alestalo. 5. Welfare crisis and beyond: Danish welfare policies in the 1980s and 1990s / Jorgen Goul Andersen. 6. Exploring the sustainable limits of public expenditure in the British welfare state / Richard Parry. 7. Welfare without work? Divergent experiences of reform in Germany and the Netherlands / Anton Hemerijck, Philip Manow and Kees Van Kersbergen. 8. Implementing major welfare state reforms: a comparison of France and Switzerland - a new-institutionalist approach / Francois-Xavier Merrien and Giuliano Bonoli. 9. The Spanish development of Southern European welfare / Luis Moreno. 10. Reconstructing the welfare state in Southern Europe / Maurizio Ferrera --
 Pt. III. Towards consolidated European welfare states? 11. The treaty on European Union and its revision: sea change or empty shell for European social policies? / Gerda Falkner. 12.