Welfare States: Construction, Deconstruction, Reconstruction

‘This three-volume set collects together 63 journal articles dating from 1974 to 2005 and is an absolute must for any library, think-tank or university department serious about studying the welfare state. . . there is an excellent bibliography which will be helpful to anyone studying social policy. . . these really are splendid volumes and for some time to come they will be essential reading for anyone seriously interested in welfare states and welfare state theory.’
– Citizen’s Income

‘Welfare States: Construction, Deconstruction, Reconstruction is the single most formidable compendium of welfare state writings that exists. The three volumes span all the main disciplines and the entire range of theoretical and empirical issues of relevance. It will, no doubt, become the point of reference for teaching and research alike. Leibfried and Mau must be congratulated for an Opus Magnum that is unrivalled in comprehensiveness and quality.’
– Gøsta Esping-Andersen, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain

‘An awe-inspiringly wide-ranging collection of articles covering different aspects of the welfare state, different policy issues, and different analytical approaches. A must for anyone who is interested in a multidisciplinary approach to thinking about the welfare state.’
– Nicholas Barr, London School of Economics, UK

‘Leibfried and Mau have done a stunningly good job finding just the right pieces on all the important topics. . . Overall this is a truly excellent set.’
– Robert Goodin, Australian National University

63 articles, dating from 1974 to 2005
Contributors include: N. Barr, F. Castles, G. Esping-Andersen, J.S. Hacker, P. Hall, E. Immergut, W. Korpi, J. Myles, C. Offe, P. Pierson, B. Rothstein

Contents:

Volume I: Analytical Approaches

Acknowledgements

Introduction
Welfare States: Construction, Deconstruction, Reconstruction
Stephan Leibfried and Steffen Mau

PART I WELFARE STATE DEVELOPMENT: THE GRAND PERSPECTIVE
1. Ira Katznelson (1986), ‘Rethinking the Silences of Social and Economic Policy’
2. Edwin Amenta (2003), ‘What We Know about the Development of Social Policy. Comparative and Historical Research in Comparative and Historical Perspective’
3. John Myles and Jill Quadagno (2002), ‘Political Theories of the Welfare State’

PART II MODERNIZATION AND THE EXPANSION OF CITIZENSHIP
4. T.H. Marshall (1992 [1949]), ‘Citizenship and Social Class’
5. Richard M. Titmuss (1974), ‘What is Social Policy?’
6. Robert Henry Cox (1998), ‘The Consequences of Welfare Reform: How Conceptions of Social Rights Are Changing’

PART III FUNCTIONALISM AND THE INDUSTRIALIZATION THESIS
7. Peter Flora and Jens Alber (1981), ‘Modernization, Democratization, and the Development of Welfare States in Western Europe’
8. Harold L. Wilensky (1975), ‘The Welfare State as a Research Problem’ and ‘Economic Level, Ideology, and Social Structure’

PART IV NEO-MARXIST THEORIES
9. Claus Offe (1984), ‘Social Policy and the Theory of the State’
10. Bob Jessop (2002), ‘Capitalism and the Capitalist Type of State’

PART V THE POWER RESOURCES APPROACH
11. Walter Korpi (1983), ‘The Democratic Class Struggle’ and ‘Social Policy’
12. Walter Korpi and Joakim Palme (2003), ‘New Politics and Class Politics in the Context of Austerity and Globalization: Welfare State Regress in 18 Countries, 1975–95

PART VI MANAGING AND SHARING RISK
13. Peter Baldwin (1990), ‘Introduction: Welfare, Redistribution and Solidarity’
14. Nicholas Barr (2001), ‘The Market and Information’
15. Giuliano Bonoli (2005), ‘The Politics of the New Social Policies: Providing Coverage Against New Social Risks in Mature Welfare States’

PART VII POLITY-CENTERED APPROACHES AND INSTITUTIONALISMS
16. Ann Shola Orloff and Theda Skocpol (1984), ‘Why Not Equal Protection? Explaining the Politics of Public Social Spending in Britain, 1900–1911, and the United States, 1880s–1920’
17. Evelyne Huber, Charles Ragin and John D. Stephens (1993), ‘Social Democracy, Christian Democracy, Constitutional Structure, and the Welfare State’
18. Ellen M. Immergut (1990), ‘Institutions, Veto Points, and Policy Results: A Comparative Analysis of Health Care’
19. Jacob S. Hacker (2002), ‘The Politics of Public and Private Social Benefits’
20. Bo Rothstein (1998), ’The Political and Moral Logic of the Universal Welfare State’

Name Index


Volume II: Varieties and Transformations

Acknowledgements

An introduction by the editors to all three volumes appears in Volume I

PART I VARIETIES OF WELFARE STATES
1. Gøsta Esping-Andersen (1990), ‘The Three Political Economies of the Welfare State’, ‘De-Commodification in Social Policy’ and ‘The Welfare State as a System of Stratification’
2. Giuliano Bonoli (1997), ‘Classifying Welfare States: A Two-dimension Approach’
3. Francis G. Castles and Deborah Mitchell (1993), ‘Worlds of Welfare and Families of Nations’
4. Sven E.O. Hort and Stein Kuhnle (2000), ‘The Coming of East and South-East Asian Welfare States’
5. Peter A. Hall and David Soskice (2001), ‘An Introduction to Varieties of Capitalism’

PART II RETRENCHMENT
6. Paul Pierson (1996), ‘The New Politics of the Welfare State’
7. Paul Pierson (2001), ‘Coping with Permanent Austerity: Welfare State Restructuring in Affluent Democracies’
8. Richard Clayton and Jonas Pontusson (1998), ‘Welfare-State Retrenchment Revisited: Entitlement Cuts, Public Sector Restructuring, and Inegalitarian Trends in Advanced Capitalist Societies’
9. Vivien A. Schmidt (2002), ‘Does Discourse Matter in the Politics of Welfare State Adjustment?’

PART III GLOBALIZATION
10. Geoffrey Garrett (1998), ‘Global Markets and National Politics: Collision Course or Virtuous Circle?’
11. Elmar Rieger and Stephan Leibfried (1998), ‘Welfare State Limits to Globalization’
12. Sven Steinmo (2002), ‘Globalization and Taxation: Challenges to the Swedish Welfare State’

PART IV POST-INDUSTRIALISM
13. Gøsta Esping-Andersen (1999), ‘The Structural Bases of Postindustrial Employment’
14. Torben Iversen and Anne Wren (1998), ‘Equality, Employment, and Budgetary Restraint: The Trilemma of the Service Economy’

PART V EUROPEANIZATION
15. Wolfgang Streeck (2000), ‘Competitive Solidarity: Rethinking the European Social Model’
16. Claus Offe (2003), ‘The European Model of “Social” Capitalism: Can it Survive European Integration?’
17. Herbert Obinger, Stephan Leibfried and Francis G. Castles (2005), ‘Bypasses to a Social Europe? Lessons from Federal Experience’

PART VI GLOBAL SOCIAL POLICY
18. Bob Deacon with Michelle Hulse and Paul Stubbs (1997), ‘The Prospects for Global Social Policy’
19. Geof Wood and Ian Gough (2004), ‘Conclusion: Rethinking Social Policy in Development Contexts’

Name Index


Volume III: Legitimation, Achievement and Integration

Acknowledgements

An introduction by the editors to all three volumes appears in Volume I

PART I REASONS FOR WELFARE
1. John Rawls (1986), ‘Distributive Justice’
2. Robert E. Goodin (1988), ‘Introduction’
3. Nancy Fraser (1990), ‘Talking about Needs: Interpretive Contests as Political Conflicts in Welfare-State Societies’

PART II OUTCOMES
4. Walter Korpi and Joakim Palme (1998), ‘The Paradox of Redistribution and Strategies of Equality: Welfare State Institutions, Inequality, and Poverty in the Western Countries’
5. Lane Kenworthy (1999), ‘Do Social-Welfare Policies Reduce Poverty? A Cross-National Assessment’
6. Timothy M. Smeeding (2005), ‘Public Policy, Economic Inequality, and Poverty: The United States in Comparative Perspective’

PART III TRADE OFFS AND DYSFUNCTIONS
7. Lane Kenworthy (2003), ‘Do Affluent Countries Face an Incomes-Jobs Trade Off?’
8. Assar Lindbeck and Dennis J. Snower (2001), ‘Insiders versus Outsiders’
9. Assar Lindbeck (1997), ‘The Swedish Experiment’
10. Lawrence M. Mead (1997), ‘Citizenship and Social Policy: T.H. Marshall and Poverty’

PART IV HUMAN MOTIVATION AND THE WELFARE STATE
11. Julian Le Grand (1997), ‘Knights, Knaves or Pawns? Human Behaviour and Social Policy’
12. Alan Deacon and Kirk Mann (1999), ‘Agency, Modernity and Social Policy’

PART V PUBLIC SUPPORT AND WELFARE ATTITUDES
13. Stefan Svallfors (1997), ‘Worlds of Welfare and Attitudes to Redistribution: A Comparison of Eight Western Nations’
14. Wim van Oorschot (2000), ‘Who Should Get What, and Why? On Deservingness Criteria and the Conditionality of Solidarity Among the Public’
15. Martin Gilens (1996), ‘“Race Coding” and White Opposition to Welfare’

PART VI ETHNIC AND SOCIAL DIVERSITY
16. Robert C. Lieberman (2002), ‘Political Institutions and the Politics of Race in the Development of the Modern Welfare State’
17. Keith G. Banting (2000), ‘Looking in Three Directions: Migration and the European Welfare State in Comparative Perspective’
18. Keith G. Banting and Will Kymlicka (2004), ‘Do Multiculturalism Policies Erode the Welfare State?’

PART VII GENDER
19. Ann Orloff (1996), ‘Gender in the Welfare State’
20. Jane Lewis (2002), ‘Gender and Welfare State Change’
21. Haya Stier, Noah Lewin-Epstein and Michael Braun (2001), ‘Welfare Regimes, Family-Supportive Policies, and Women’s Employment Along the Life-Course’

PART VIII PENSIONS AND THE GENERATIONAL CONTRACT
22. Karl Hinrichs (2001), ‘Elephants on the Move. Patterns of Public Pension Reform in OECD Countries’
23. John Myles (2002), ‘A New Social Contract for the Elderly?’
24. Martin Kohli (1999), ‘Private and Public Transfers Between Generations: Linking the Family and the State’

Name Index