Table of Contents

1. Introduction2. Restructuring the British welfare state: Between domestic constraints and global imperatives, Martin Rhodes3. Internationalization and two liberal welfare states: Australia and New Zealand, Herman Schwartz4. Switzerland: Adjustment politics within institutional constraints, Giuliano Bonoli and André Mach5. How small countries negotiate change - twenty-five years of policy adjustment in Austria, the Netherlands and Belgium, Anton Hemerijck, Brigitte Unger, and Jelle Visser6. Adjusting badly: The German welfare state, structural change, and the open economy, Philip Manow and Eric Seils7. France: Directing adjustment?, Jonah D. Levy8. Italy: Rescue from without?, Maurizio Ferrera and Elisabetta Gualmini9. Sweden and Denmark: Defending the Welfare State, Mats Benner and Torben Bundgaard Vad10. A fine balance: Women's labor market participation in international comparison, Mary Daly11. Any way out of exit from work? Reversing the entrenched pathways of early retirement?, Bernhard Ebbinghaus12. After liberalization: Public-interest services and employment in the utilities, Adrienne Héritier and Susanne K. Schmidt13. Adjusting national tax policy to economic internationalization - strategies and outcomes, Steffen Ganghof