Long-term beneficial welfare state reforms not only face opposition from powerful insiders and beneficiaries of the system in place. While potential losers from a policy change are often relatively easy to spot, ewll-designed reforms generate mostly diffuse gains, and the potential winners are...

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Ideational Leadership: Key to Overcoming Welfare State Resistance to Change -- 3. A Bird's-Eye View of the German Welfare State -- 4. Transformation of Health Care Policy? The Legacy of Minister Seehofer -- 5. Transforming...