Introduction -- Hegemony and transnationalized governance -- Creating and dismantling social Europe -- (re)constructing a neoliberal social Europe -- Social partnership and neoliberalism in Ireland -- The "Europeanization" of the German welfare state -- Conclusion

The goal of this paper is to provide the elements of a unitary analytical framework that incorporates the findings of two bodies of literature which, so far, havedeveloped independently: comparative models of the political economy that distinguish between coordinated and uncoordinated market...