New Perspectives on the Welfare State in Europe

Catherine Jones is Reader in Comparative Social Policy at the University of Birmingham. Among her publications is Patterns of Social Policy: an Introduction to Comparative Analysis, published by Routledge.

• Editorial introduction Part I On the state of the art 1 O’Goffe’s tale 2 Social policy in the postmodern world Part II Issues from Britain 3 Developments in social security policy 4 Encouraging home ownership 5 Privatism and partnership in urban policy 6 Returner and retainer policies for women Part III Prospects for Europe 7 Towards a European welfare state? 8 The end of the middle way? 9 Developments in East European social policy 10 The Pacific challenge Part IV On the state of the argument 11 Bringing freedom back in