Introduction: towards a political economy of social policy -- The historical origins of welfare systems, 1945-80 -- Social policy in Latin America, East Asia and Eastern Europe, 1945-1980: an overview -- The expansion of welfare commitments in Latin America, 1945-80 -- The evolution of social...

Institutions and economic adjustment / Stephan Haggard and Robert R. Kaufman -- International influence on economic policy: Debt, stabilization, and structural reform / Barbara Stallings -- External influence, conditionality, and the politics of adjustment / Miles Kahler -- The state as problem...