The Future of European Welfare

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction: Europe’s Social Contract under Stress

   1. Europe’s Social Contract Under Stress

      • Martin Rhodes, Yves Mény

      Pages 1-19

3. Interpretations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21

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   2. Unemployment and Social Exclusion: An Economic View

      • Paul Ormerod

      Pages 23-40

   3. Poverty and Social Exclusion: A Sociological View

      • Serge Paugam

      Pages 41-62

   4. Against Exclusion: The Poor and the Social Sciences

      • Giovanna Procacci

      Pages 63-78

4. Welfare Systems Under Stress

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79

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   2. The Four ‘Social Europes’: Between Universalism and Selectivity

      • Maurizio Ferrera

      Pages 81-96

   3. The Evolution of Financial Poverty in Western Europe

      • Karel Van Den Bosch

      Pages 97-124

   4. In Defence Of Welfare: Social Protection and Social Reform in Eastern Europe

      • Ulrike Götting

      Pages 125-153

5. Welfare and the Global Arena

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 155-155

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   2. Negative and Positive Integration in the Political Economy of European Welfare States

      • Fritz Scharpf

      Pages 157-177

   3. Globalization, Labour Markets and Welfare States: A Future of ‘Competitive Corporatism’?

      • Martin Rhodes

      Pages 178-203

   4. Global and Regional Agencies and the Making of Post-Communist Social Policy in Eastern Europe

      • Bob Deacon

      Pages 204-225

6. The Search for a New Social Contract

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 227-227

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   2. The Social Contract and the Problem of the Firm

      • Colin Crouch

      Pages 229-243

   3. European Social Citizenship: Why a New Social Contract (Probably) Will Not Happen

      • Bill Jordan

      Pages 244-265

   4. Some Sceptical Reflections on EU Citizenship as the Basis of a New Social Contract

      • Carlos Closa

      Pages 266-283

7. Back Matter

   Pages 284-287

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European welfare states are currently under stress and the 'social contracts' that underpin them are being challenged. First, welfare spending has arguably 'grown to limits' in a number of countries while expanding everywhere in the 1990s in line with higher unemployment. Second, demographic change and the emergence of new patterns of family and working life are transforming the nature of 'needs'. Third, the economic context and the policy autonomy of nation states has been transformed by 'globalization'. This book considers the implications of these challenges for European welfare states at the end of the twentieth century with interdisciplinary contributions from first-rate political scientists, economists and sociologists including Paul Ormerod.

• communism
• desegregation
• economy
• employment
• European Union (EU)
• globalization
• labor market
• Policy
• social policy
• social science

• Robert Schuman Centre, European University Institute, Florence, Italy

  Martin Rhodes, Yves Mény

• Institut d’ Etudes Politiques, Paris, France

  Yves Mény

CARLOS CLOSA Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and Administration, Complutense University, Madrid COLIN CROUCH Professor of Political and Social Science, European University Institute, Florence, Italy BOB DEACON Professor of Social Policy and Director of the International Social Policy Research Unit, Leeds Metropolitan University MAURIZIO FERRERA Professor of Public Policy and Administration, University of Pavia ULRIKE GOTTING Research Fellow, Centre for Social Policy Research, University of Bremen BILL JORDAN Professor of Social Policy, Department of Social Work and Probation Studies, University of Exeter PAUL ORMEROD Chairman of Post-Orthodox Economics, London and Visiting Professor of Economics, University of Manchester SERGE PAUGAM Sociologist, CNRS GIOVANNA PROCACCI Research Director, Department of Sociology, University of Milan FRITZ SCHARPF Professor of Political Science, Max Planck Institute fur Gesellschaftsforschung, Cologne, Germany KAREL VAN DEN BOSCH Centre for Social Policy, University of Antwerp

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