The Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism.

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Dry statistics / real lives -- 1.2 Welfare states / welfare regimes -- 1.3 Our aims and methods: ethics, institutions and panels -- 1.4 Our focus: three countries, ten years -- 1.5 The best worlds of welfare capitalism -- 1.6 Is it a fair test? -- Part I Setting the scene -- 2 Reasons for welfare -- 2.1 Promoting economic efficiency -- 2.2 Reducing poverty -- 2.3 Promoting social equality -- 2.4 Promoting social integration, avoiding social exclusion -- 2.5 Promoting social stability -- 2.6 Promoting autonomy -- 2.7 A matter of priorities -- 3 Alternative institutional designs -- 3.1 The liberal welfare regime -- 3.2 The social democratic welfare regime -- 3.3 The corporatist welfare regime -- 4 National embodiments -- 4.1 Ideal types and actual countries -- 4.2 The United States -- 4.2.1 Policy history: a thumbnail sketch -- 4.2.2 Policies and programmes -- 4.2.3 Policy changes, during and after our period -- 4.3 The Netherlands -- 4.3.1 Policy history: a thumbnail sketch -- 4.3.2 Policies and programmes -- 4.3.3 Policy changes, during and after our period -- 4.4 Germany -- 4.4.1 Policy history: a thumbnail sketch -- 4.4.2 Policies and programmes -- 4.4.3 Policy changes during and after our period -- 4.5 Fitting cases to kinds -- 4.5.1 Public expenditures -- 4.5.2 Decommodification -- 4.5.3 Welfare regime clusters -- 5 Background expectations -- 5.1 Policy priorities -- 5.1.1 Economic performance and efficiency -- 5.1.2 Poverty, income inequality and unemployment -- 5.1.3 Social stability and social integration -- 5.1.4 Autonomy -- 5.2 Comparisons in the round -- 6 Testing the theories with panels -- 6.1 Panels and their alternatives -- 6.1.1 The power of panel data -- 6.1.2 Alternatives to panels -- 6.2 The structure of the panel data.