Ka Lin is Docent at the University of Tampere, Senior Researcher and Docent at the University of Turku, Professor and Director of the Social Policy Research Center at Nanjing University, Professor and Executive Director of the MSW Center of Zhejiang University, and Deputy Director of the Center for European Studies at Zhejiang University. He is also Vice President of the International Association on Social Quality and Editor of the International Journal of Social Quality.

• IntroductionKa Lin and Peter HerrmannChapter 1. Reconceptualization of Social QualityAnne Fairweather, Borut Roncevic, Maj Rydbjerg, Marie Valentova and Mojca ZajcChapter 2. Indicators of Social Quality: Outcomes of the European Scientific NetworkLaurent J.G. van der Maesen and Alan WalkerChapter 3. Social Quality and Welfare System SustainabilityAlan WalkerChapter 4. The Prototype of Social Quality Theory and Its Applicability to Asian SocietiesKa LinChapter 5. Economic Performance, Social Progress and Social QualityPeter HermannChapter 6. The Human and the Social: A Comparison of the Discourses of Human Development, Human Security and Social QualityDes GasperChapter 7. Social Quality in Britain: A Welfare State?Sue HackingChapter 8. Social Quality in SwedenGöran Therborn and Sonia TherbornChapter 9. Visions of the Sustainable Welfare Society: Extending Social Quality into an Asian/Developmental ContextYoshinori HiroiChapter 10. Risks of Society Stability and Precarity of Employment: A Look at RussiaVyacheslav Bobkov, Olesya Veredyuk and Ulvi AliyevChapter 11. The Rational Actor Reform Paradigm: Delivering the Goods but Destroying Public Trust?Peter Taylor-GoobySocial Quality: An Invitation to DanceWolfgang BeckIndex