Table of Contents

Contemplating the implications of the economic crisis for social policy: confusion, contradictions, opportunities and risks ~ Kevin Farnsworth and Zoë Irving; Part one: Coming to terms with the crisis: Towards a new political economy of welfare: The political economy of welfare crisis~ Ian Gough; Economic crises and paradigm change ~ Michael Hill; Polanyi's revenge: re-embedding the market and the challenge for social policy after the crisis ~ Theo Papadopoulos; Social policy and the 'City division of welfare' ~ Adrian Sinfield; Part two: Managing the Crisis: Social Policy-Making in Changing Times: Global social policy responses to the economic crisis ~ Bob Deacon; Poverty, the crisis, and social policy responses~ Armando Barrientos; Crisis, uncertainty and 're-invention' in the making of social policy ~ Rob Hulme; Part three: Understanding and Managing National Crises: South Korea after the 1997 economic crisis: a 'paradigm shift'? ~ Eunna Lee; China's response to crisis: what role for social policy? ~ Sarah Cook and Wing Lam; Familism in turmoil: social policy and the politico-economic crisis in Greece ~ Theo Papadopoulos and Antonios Roumpakis; Tiptoeing through crisis? Re-evaluating the German social model in light of the global recession ~ John Hudson and Stefan Kühner; Boom to bust: globalisation, Ireland and the economic crisis ~ Mairéad Considine and Fiona Dukelow; Waving not drowning: Iceland, crisis and alternative social policy futures ~ Zoë Irving; Experiences from two financial crises in the Nordic welfare states: early 1990s and the current crisis ~ Pekka Kosonen; Economic crisis and social policy in the United States and Canada ~ Daniel Béland and Alex Waddan; The UK ~ Kevin Farnsworth; Responding to the challenges: some concluding remarks on welfare futures in changed circumstances ~ Kevin Farnsworth and Zoë Irving.