Comparative History of Public Policy

Francis G. Castles is Professor Emeritus at the University of Edinburgh and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the Research School of Social Sciences at Australian National University and at the Center for Social Policy Research (CeS) in Bremen.

• Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Puzzles of Political Economy (Francis G Castles)2. Social Protection by Other Means: Australia's Strategy of Coping With External Vulnerability (Francis G Castles)3. Learning from Catastrophes: West Germany's Public Policy (Manfred G Schmidt)4. The Comparative History of Public Policy in Israel (Michael Shalev)5. `Pillarisation' and `Popular Movements' Two Variants of Welfare State Capitalism: The Netherlands and Sweden (Gordan Therborn)6. Japan's Creative Conservatism: Continuity Under Challenge (T J Pempel)7. The United Kingdom: Paradoxes of an Ungrounded Statism (Patrick Dunleavy)8. Taking Exception: Explaining the Distinctiveness of American Public Policies in The Past Century (Edwin Amenta and Theda Skopol)Notes on Contributors.