Introduction / Jon Erik Dølvik and Andrew Martin -- Eurozone economic governance : "a currency without a country" / Andrew Martin -- The transformation of the German social model / Wendy Carlin, Anke Hassel, Andrew Martin and David Soskice -- France in the middle / Jacques le Cacheux and George Ross -- The United Kingdom's social model : from Labour's new deal to the economic crisis and the coalition / Ken Mayhew and Mark Wickham-Jones -- The evolution and crises of the social models in Italy and Spain / Sofia Perez and Martin Rhodes -- The liberal road to high employment and low inequality? The Dutch and Swiss social models in the crisis / Alexandre Afonso and Jelle Visser -- The Nordic social models in turbulent times : consolidation and flexible adaptation / Jon Erik Dølvik, Jørgen Goul Andersen, and Juhana Vartiainen -- Redistribution and the power of the advanced nation state : government responses to rising inequality / Torben Iversen and David Soskice -- When institutions reciprocate : turning European social models around / Erling Barth and Karl Ove Moene -- From crisis to crisis : European social models and labor market outcomes in the era of monetary integration / Jon Erik Dølvik and Andrew Martin -- Conclusion / Andrew Martin and Jon Erik Dølvik
Summary
This book analyzes how the transformation of the European political economies - stretching from the crisis after German re-unification and through the Great Recession - has influenced the social models, employment, and inequality in Western Europe
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-425) and index
