Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Figures ix
4. List of Tables x
5. Notes on the Contributors xi
6. Social Security in the New Millennium 1
7. Debates
8. Rising Tides and Rusty Boats: Economic position of the poor in 1985-1995 15
9. Popular Support for Social Security. A sociological perspective’ 33
10. Non-Discriminating Social Policy? Policy scenarios for meeting needs without categorisation 53
11. Equality, Employment, and State Social Policies: a gendered perspective 69
12. Europeanisation and Decentralisation of Welfare ‘Safety Nets’ 88
13. Reforms
14. Reforms in Theoretical Perspective
15. Beyond Retrenchment: four problems in current welfare state research and one suggestion how to overcome them 105
16. Change without Challenge? Welfare states, social construction of challenge and dynamics of path dependency 121
17. Reforming Pension Systems
18. Public Expenditure and Population Ageing: why families of nations are different 141
19. Ageing and Public Pension Reforms in Western Europe and North America: patterns and politics 157
20. The Redistributional Impact of a World Bank ‘Pension Regime’ 179
21. Activation Reforms
22. Activating Welfare States. How social policies can promote employment 197
23. Welfare to Work and the Organisation of Opportunity: European and American approaches from a British perspective 211
24. Activating the Unemployed: the street-level implementation of UK policy 235
25. Bibliography 251