The Reassertion of the Regulatory Welfare State: A Preface - Avishai Benish and David Levi-Faur The Expansion of Regulation in Welfare Governance - Avishai Benish and David Levi-Faur Meta Governance of Path Dependencies: Regulation, Welfare, Markets - John Braithwaite The political economy of regulating for welfare: regulation preventing loss of access to basic services in the UK, Sweden the EU and Israel - Hanan Haber Measuring and comparing the regulatory welfare state: Social objectives in public procurement - Miriam Hartlapp The work-life balance directive: Towards a gender equalizing EU regulatory welfare state? Denmark and Poland compared - Caroline de la Porte, Trine Larsen and Dorota Szelewa Bossing or Protecting? The Integration of Social Regulation into the Welfare State - Philipp Trein Politics, Markets and Modes of Contract Governance: Regulating Social Services in Shanghai and Chongqing, China - Wei Li and Bao Yang Views from Below: Inspectors Coping with Hybrid Accountabilities - Tanja Klenk Changing expectations? The change in the role of the Welfare Ministry in the regulation of personal social services - Lihi Lahat The Quest for Service Quality as a Driver of the Regulatory Welfare State? Quality Policy for Health Services in Germany and France - Renate Reiter The rise of the regulatory constitutional welfare state, publicization and constitutional social rights: The case of Israel and Britain - Lilach Litor, Gila Menahem, and Hadara Bar-Mor Quiet Politics of Employment Protection Legislation? Partisan politics, electoral competition and the regulatory welfare state - Linda Voigt and Reimut Zohlnhoefer Varieties of Regulatory Welfare Regimes in Middle-Income Countries: A Comparative Analysis of Brazil, Mexico and Turkey - Isik D. OEzel and Salvador Parrado Indirect and invisible regulations set in stone: A driving force behind the rise of private health insurance in Sweden - John Lapidus Missing in Action: Bridging capital and cross-boundary discourse - Sora Lee and Valerie Braithwaite Organizing Competition: Regulatory Welfare States in Higher Education - Tobias Schulze-Cleven The Logics of Hybrid Accountability: When State, Market and Professionalism Interact - Avishai Benish