Governance of Welfare State Reform

Edited by Irene Dingeldey, Senior Researcher, Institute Labour and Economy, University of Bremen and Heinz Rothgang, Professor of Health Economics, Centre for Social Policy Research, University of Bremen, Germany

• Contents:1. Introduction: Governance and Comparative Welfare State ResearchIrene Dingeldey and Heinz RothgangPART I: CHANGES OF POLICY AND REGULATORY STRUCTURES2. Converging Governance in Healthcare Systems?Heinz Rothgang3. Vanishing Variety? The Regulation of Funded Pension Schemes in Comparative PerspectiveThorsten Hippe4. Changing Forms of Governance as Welfare State Restructuring: Activating Labour Market Policies in Denmark, the UK and GermanyIrene Dingeldey5. International Organisations as Governance Actors: The OECD in Education PolicyKerstin Martens and Anja P. Jakobi6. Are Welfare States Converging? Recent Social Policy Developments in Advanced OECD CountriesPeter Starke and Herbert ObingerPART II: THE POLITICS OF WELFARE STATE REFORM7. Competitive Transformation and the State Regulation of Health Insurance Systems: Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands ComparedThomas Gerlinger8. Pension Politics in the 21st Century: From Class Conflict to Modernising Compromise?Giuliano Bonoli9. Ideas and the Politics of Labour Market ReformRobert Henry Cox10. Agenda Setting and Political Institutions in Education Policy: A Cross Country ComparisonMichael Baggesen Klitgaard11. Conclusion: The Governance of Welfare State ReformHeinz Rothgang and Irene DingeldeyIndex

'A timely and empirically grounded contribution to the literature on welfare governance. Examining internationalisation, regionalisation, privatisation and re-regulation, the case study chapters open up important questions about converging and diverging governance practices.'