Volume II: Diverse Responses to Common Challenges in Twelve Countries

In this ground-breaking, two-volume study of the adjustment of advanced welfare states to international economic pressures, leading scholars detail the wide variety of responses in twelve countries. Rejecting any notion of convergence to some kind of neo-liberal orthodoxy, they find that most countries have remained true to the basic features of their postwar model as they have liberalized. Moreover, within different welfare-state constellations, while some countries are still struggling to adjust, others have reached a new sustainable equilibrium. Volume I presents comparative analyses of the differences in countries' vulnerabilities and capabilities, the effectiveness of their policy responses, and the role of values and discourse in the politics of adjustment. Volume II presents in-depth analyses of the experiences of Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom as well as special studies on the participation of women in the labour market, early retirement, the liberalization of public services, and international tax competition. Contributors to this volume - Mats Benner is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Lund University, Sweden. Giuliano Bonoli is a Lecturer in the Department of Social Work and Social Policy, University of Fribourg, Switzerland. Mary Daly is Professor of Sociology at Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Bernhard Ebbinghaus is Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne (Germany) and 1999/2000 J.F. Kennedy Fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University, Maurizio Ferrera is Professor of Public Policy and Administration at the University of Pavia and directs the Center for Comparative Political Research at the Bocconi University of Milan. Steffen Ganghof is a doctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne. Elisabetta Gualmini is assistant professor at the University of Bologna, where she teaches Comparative Public Administration. Anton Hemerijck is senior lecturer in the Department of Public Administration, Leiden University, the Netherlands and visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute of the Study of Societies in Cologne. Adrienne Heritier, is professor of political science and co-director of the Max-Planck Project Group on 'Common Goods: Law, Politics and Economics'. Jonah Levy is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. Andre Mach is teaching-assistant at the Institut d'etudes politiques et internationales, University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Philip Manow, political scientist, is researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne. Martin Rhodes is Professor of European Public Policy at the European University Institute in Florence. Susanne K. Schmidt is research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies. Herman Schwartz is associate professor of Government and Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia. Eric Seils has studied political science at the Universities of Konstanz and Huddersfield. Brigitte Unger is University Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Economics and Business Administration, in Vienna, Austria. Torben Bundgaard Vad is political scientist and works at Danish Commerce & Services in Copenhagen, Denmark as a political consultant with knowledge services as his main area of expertise. Jelle Visser is professor of empirical sociology and sociology of labor and organization at the University of Amsterdam, where he directs the Centre for research of European Societies and Industrial Relations (CESAR).