Prologue : what does it mean to break with Bismarck? / Gøsta Esping-Andersen -- Ordering change : understanding the 'Bismarckian' welfare reform trajectory / Bruno Palier -- A social insurance state withers away. Welfare state reforms in germany -- or, Attempts to turn around in a cul-de-sac / Karl Hinrichs -- The dualizations of the French welfare system / Bruno Palier -- Janus-faced developments in a prototypical Bismarckian welfare state : welfare reforms in Austria since the 1970s / Herbert Obinger and Emmerich Tálos -- Continental welfare at a crossroads : the choice between activation and minimum income protection in Belgium and the Netherlands / Anton Hemerijck and Ive Marx -- Italy : an uncompleted departure from Bismarck / Matteo Jessoula and Tiziana Alti -- Defrosting the Spanish welfare state : the weight of conservative components / Ana Guillén -- Reform opportunities in a Bismarckian latecomer : restructuring the Swiss welfare state / Silja Häusermann -- The politics of social security reforms in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia / Alfio Cerami -- Reforming Bismarckian corporatism : the changing role of social partnership in continental Europe / Bernhard Ebbinghaus -- Trajectories of fiscal adjustment in Bismarckian welfare systems / Philip Manow -- Whatever happened to the Bismarckian welfare state? From labor shedding to employment-friendly reforms / Anton Hemerijck and Werner Eichhorst -- The long conservative corporatist road to welfare reforms / Bruno Palier
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