Governance of welfare state reform : a cross national and cross sectoral comparison of policy and politics

Contents: PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. Introduction: Governance and Comparative Welfare State Research Irene Dingeldey and Heinz Rothgang PART II: CHANGES OF POLICY AND REGULATORY STRUCTURES 2. Converging Governance in Healthcare Systems? Heinz Rothgang 3. Vanishing Variety? The Regulation of Funded Pension Schemes in Comparative Perspective Thorsten Hippe 4. Changing Forms of Governance as Welfare State Restructuring: Activating Labour Market Policies in Denmark, the UK and Germany Irene Dingeldey 5. International Organisations as Governance Actors: The OECD in Education Policy Kerstin Martens and Anja P. Jakobi 6. Are Welfare States Converging? Recent Social Policy Developments in Advanced OECD Countries Peter Starke and Herbert Obinger PART III: THE POLITICS OF WELFARE STATE REFORM 7. Competitive Transformation and the State Regulation of Health Insurance Systems: Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands Compared Thomas Gerlinger 8. Pension Politics in the 21st Century: From Class Conflict to Modernising Compromise? Guiliano Bonoli 9. Ideas and the Politics of Labour Market Reform Robert Henry Cox 10. Agenda Setting and Political Institutions in Education Policy: A Cross Country Comparison Michael Baggesen Klitgaard PART IV: CONCLUSION 11. Conclusion: The Governance of Welfare State Reform Heinz Rothgang and Irene Dingeldey Index