Christopher Pierson is professor of politics at the University of Nottingham, UK, and lead editor of the British Journal of Politics and International Relations. He is author of Beyond the Welfare State? 3rd edition (Polity, 2006).Francis G. Castles is professor emeritus of social and public policy at the University of Edinburgh, UK.Ingela K. Naumann is lecturer in social policy at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

• Editors’ Introduction to the Third Edition PART I - APPROACHES TO WELFAREThe First Welfare State? Thomas PaineSection 1: ‘Classical’The Welfare State in Historical Perspective, Asa BriggsCitizenship and Social Class, T.H. MarshallUniversalism versus Selection, Richard TitmussSection 2: Perspectives on the LeftWhat is Social Justice? Commission on Social JusticeSome Contradictions of the Modern Welfare State, Claus OffeSection 3: Responses from the RightThe Meaning of the Welfare State, Friedrich HayekThe Two Wars against Poverty, Charles MurrayThe New Politics of the New Poverty, Lawrence M. MeadSection 4: FeminismThe Patriarchal Welfare State, Carole PatemanThe Welfare State and Women Power, Helga Maria Hernes PART II - WELFARE REGIMES UNDER THREATSection 1: TrajectoriesThree Worlds of Welfare Capitalism, Gøsta Esping-AndersenReligion and the Western Welfare State, Philip Manow and Kees van KersbergenThe New Politics of the Welfare State, Paul PiersonSection 2: ConstraintsGlobalization, the Welfare State and Inequality, Duane SwankThe Europeanization of Social Protection: Domestic Impacts and National Responses, Jon Kvist and Juho SaariExplaining Convergence of OECD Welfare States: a Conditional Approach, Carina Schmitt and Peter StarkeBreaking with the Past? Why the Global Financial Crisis led to Austerity Policies but not to Modernization of the Welfare State, Klaus ArmingeonSection 3: ChallengesAgeing and the Welfare State: Securing Sustainability, Volker Meier and Martin WerdingVery Low Fertility: Consequences, Causes and Policy Approaches, Peter McDonaldMigration, Minorities and Welfare States, Carl-Ulrik Schierup and Stephen CastlesThe Politics of the New Social Policies: Providing Coverage against New Social Risks in Mature Welfare States, Giuliano Bonoli PART III - EMERGING IDEAS, EMERGENT FORMSSection 1: Emerging IdeasThe Big Society: A New Policy Environment for the Third Sector? Peter AlcockDiffusing Ideas for After Neoliberalism: The Social Investment Perspective in Europe and Latin America, Jane JensonThe Governance of Economic Uncertainty: Beyond the ‘New Social Risk’ Analysis, Colin Crouch and Maarten KeuneHow Climate Change will Shape the Social Policy Framework, Zahir SadequeBasic Income and the Two Dilemmas of the Welfare, State Phillippe van ParijsSection 2: Emergent FormsWhat Adult Worker Model? A Critical Look at Recent Social Policy Reform in Europe from a Gender and Family Perspective, Mary DalyBeyond Modernization? Social Care and the Transformation of Welfare Governance, Janet Newman, Caroline Glendinning and Michael HughesAssessing the Welfare State: The Politics of Happiness, Alexander Pacek and Benjamin RadcliffEurope’s Post-Democratic Era, Jürgen Habermas

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