PART 1: WELFARE THEORY Concepts and Issues The Welfare State in Historical Perspective - Asa Briggs Remembering and Rethinking the Social Divisions of Welfare: 50 years on - Kirk Mann Common Goals but Different Roles: The state's contribution to the welfare mix - Richard Rose Reasons for Welfare - Robert Goodin, Bruce Headey, Ruud Muffels and Henk-Jan Dirven Perspectives on Welfare - Alan Deacon Theoretical perspectives Ideologies of Welfare - Vic George & Paul Wilding The Origins of the Welfare State - Ian Gough Freedom and Progress - H Macmillan Is This Still Capitalism? - Anthony Crosland Postmodernism, Welfare and Radical Politics - Tony Fitzpatrick Social Problems - Rudolf Klein O'Goffe's Tale, Or What Can We Learn from the Success of the Capitalist Welfare States? Constructing Social Problem - N Manning A Taxonomy of Social Need - Jonathan Bradshaw Deprivation - Peter Townsend Social Exclusion in Europe: Policy context and analytical framework - Jos Berghman Community Care and the Family: A case for equal opportunities - Janet Finch and Dulcie Groves Social Divisions Introduction to Social Divisions - Geoff Payne Women, Economic Dependency and Citizenship - Ruth Lister The Social Creation of Poverty and Dependence in Old Age - Alan Walker Race, Welfare and Community Care: A historical perspective - Fiona Williams The Development of Rights Based Social Policy in the European Union: The example of disability rights - Deborah Mabbett PART 2: THE DEVELOPMENT OF WELFARE Historical Rise/Explanations Welfare, Redistribution and Solidarity - Peter Baldwin Power, Politics and State Autonomy in the Development of Social Citizenship: Social rights during sickness in eighteen OECD countries since 1930 - Walter Korpi What We Know About the Development of Social Policy: Comparative and historical research in comparative and historical perspective - Edwin Amenta The New Politics of the Welfare State - Paul Pierson Radical Welfare State Retrenchment - Peter Starke Regimes The Three Political Economies of the Welfare State - Gosta Esping-Andersen Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism or More? A state-of-the-art report - Will Arts and John Gelissen Welfare-state Decommodification in 18 OECD Countries: A replication and revision - Lyle Scruggs and James Allan Shifting the Wheat from the Chaff: A two-dimensional discriminant analysis of welfare state regime theory - Clare Bambra Do Welfare State Regimes Determine Public Sector Reforms? Choice reforms in American, Swedish and German schools - Michael Klitgaard Social Democratic Social Policy and Distributional Conflict in the Capitalist Democracies: A Preliminary Comparative Framework - Walter Korpi Politics Against Markets - Gosta Esping-Andersen What Characterise the Nordic Welfare State Model - Bent Greve The Path-Dependency of an Idea: Why Scandinavian welfare states remain distinct - Robert Cox Modern Social Democracy and European Welfare State Reform - Jochen Clasen Liberal The Welfare State We're In - James Bartholomew How to Design a "Liberal" Welfare State: A comparison of Canada and the United States - John Myles Is the American Welfare State Unusually Small? - Christopher Howard Privatizing Risk without Privatizing the Welfare State: The hidden politics of social policy retrenchment in the United States - Jacob Hacker Continental Social Capitalism: A study of Christian democracy and the welfare state - Kees van Kersbergen Vice into Virtue? Progressive Politics of Welfare Reform in Continental Europe - Jonah Levy From a Frozen Landscape to Structural Reforms: The sequential transformation of Bismarckian welfare systems - Bruno Palier & Claude Martin Frozen Landscapes' Revisited: Path creation in the European social model - Stephan Lessenich The Christian Democratic Welfare States of Northern Europe - Evelyne Huber & John Stephens Other Welfare Regimes The Southern Model of Welfare in Social Europe - Maurizio Ferrera The Path to European Integration: A historical institutionalist analysis - Paul Pierson East Asian Welfare Regimes: Testing the hypothesis of the developmental welfare state - Yih-Jiunn Lee & Yeun-wen Ku Rethinking the Western Construction of the Welfare State - Alan Walker & Chack Kie Wong Welfare Regimes in Development Contexts: A global and regional analysis - Ian Gough et al PART 3: THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF WELFARE Demographic Pressures Demography and Social Development - Bo Malmberg A Profile of Older Europeans - Alan Walker & Tony Maltby Dimensions of the Pension Problem: Institutions, economics and politics - Giuliano Boloni Gender and Welfare State Change - Jane Lewis Family Policy in Britain, France and Germany - Linda Hantrais Economic Trends The Political Economy of the World's Capitalisms - Will Hutton Round Up the Usual Suspects! Globalization, domestic politics and welfare state change - Herman Schwartz The Logic of Globalisation and the Changing Context of the Welfare State - Ramesh Mishra Economic Crisis and its Social Impacts: Lessons from the 1997 Asian economic crisis - M Ramesh Politics and Policy Debates A Theory of Human Need - Len Doyal and Ian Gough Knights, Knaves and Pawns: Human behaviour in social policy - Julian le Grand Agency, Modernity and Social Policy - Alan Deacon & Kirk Mann Choice and Values: Individualised rational action and social goals - Peter Taylor-Gooby The Body in Social Policy: Mapping a Territory - Julia Twigg Service Users, Social Policy and the Future of Welfare - Peter Beresford International Agencies Globalization, Supranationalism and Social Policy - Patricia Kennett The Making of Post-Communist Social Policy: The role of international agencies - Bob Deacon and Michelle Hulse Globalisation and Social Policy: From national hegemony to political pluralism - Nicola Yeates Human Well-Being and Social Structures: Relating the universal and the local - Ian Gough Postscript Postscript in Social Policy - Richard Titmuss