Neil Gilbert is Chernin Professor of Social Services and Social Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley, and director of the Center for Comparative Study of Family Welfare and Poverty Research. His numerous publications include twenty-five books and 100 articles that have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, The Public Interest, Society, Commentary, and leading academic journals. Rebecca A. Van Voorhis is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Services at the California State University, Hayward. Her publications include Activating the Unemployed and articles in Sociology and Social Welfare, European Journal of Social Work, and Children and Youth Services Review.

• Introduction: New Configurations 1. Recent Developments in the German Welfare State: Basic Continuity or a Paradigm Shift? 2. Remaking the Welfare State in New Zealand 3. The French System of Social Protection: Path Dependencies and Societal Coherence 4. New Directions for the British Welfare State 5. Social Welfare under Advanced Capitalism: The U.S. Response 6. Back on Track—To the Future? The Making and Remaking of the Swedish Welfare State in the 1990s 7. Social Security and Welfare in the Netherlands Before and After the Year 2000 8. Half Way Through the Ford: The Italian Welfare State at the Start of the New Century

Neil Gilbert is Chernin Professor of Social Services and Social Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley, and director of the Center for Comparative Study of Family Welfare and Poverty Research. His numerous publications include twenty-five books and 100 articles that have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, The Public Interest, Society, Commentary, and leading academic journals. Rebecca A. Van Voorhis is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Services at the California State University, Hayward. Her publications include Activating the Unemployed and articles in Sociology and Social Welfare, European Journal of Social Work, and Children and Youth Services Review.

• Introduction: New Configurations 1. Recent Developments in the German Welfare State: Basic Continuity or a Paradigm Shift? 2. Remaking the Welfare State in New Zealand 3. The French System of Social Protection: Path Dependencies and Societal Coherence 4. New Directions for the British Welfare State 5. Social Welfare under Advanced Capitalism: The U.S. Response 6. Back on Track—To the Future? The Making and Remaking of the Swedish Welfare State in the 1990s 7. Social Security and Welfare in the Netherlands Before and After the Year 2000 8. Half Way Through the Ford: The Italian Welfare State at the Start of the New Century

Neil Gilbert is Chernin Professor of Social Services and Social Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley, and director of the Center for Comparative Study of Family Welfare and Poverty Research. His numerous publications include twenty-five books and 100 articles that have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, The Public Interest, Society, Commentary, and leading academic journals. Rebecca A. Van Voorhis is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Services at the California State University, Hayward. Her publications include Activating the Unemployed and articles in Sociology and Social Welfare, European Journal of Social Work, and Children and Youth Services Review.

• Introduction: New Configurations 1. Recent Developments in the German Welfare State: Basic Continuity or a Paradigm Shift? 2. Remaking the Welfare State in New Zealand 3. The French System of Social Protection: Path Dependencies and Societal Coherence 4. New Directions for the British Welfare State 5. Social Welfare under Advanced Capitalism: The U.S. Response 6. Back on Track—To the Future? The Making and Remaking of the Swedish Welfare State in the 1990s 7. Social Security and Welfare in the Netherlands Before and After the Year 2000 8. Half Way Through the Ford: The Italian Welfare State at the Start of the New Century