Politics of new social risk -- New social risks and the politics of post-industrial social policies / Giuliano Bonoli -- Political parties and new social risks: the double backlash against social democracy and Christian democracy / Hans Keman, Kees van Kersbergen and Barbara Vis -- New social...

Since the 1970s social security in the European Union has been dominated by attempts at reform and cost control. In the last decade of the twentieth century these attempts have been strengthened by the coming European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). This book offers an overview of the social...