European Welfare Futures: Towards a Theory of Retrenchment

List of Tables.

Acknowledgements.

Introduction.

1. Explanations of the Growth of State Welfare.

2. New Directions in European Welfare Policy.

3. Globalization and the Welfare State.

4. Welfare Politics: The Narrowing of the National Conscience.

5. The Neo-liberal Argument for Welfare Retrenchment.

6. Squaring the Welfare Circle.

7. The Impact of Institutional Frameworks.

8. European Welfare Futures.

References.

Index.