Overview : issues and options for an aging population / David I. Shactman and Stuart H. Altman -- An international perspective on policies for an aging society / Jonathan Gruber and David A. Wise -- Budget estimates : what we know, what we can't know, and why it matters / Henry J. Aaron --...

Introduction : studying varieties of welfare capitalism / Bernhard Ebbinghaus and Philip Manow -- Business coordination, wage bargaining and the welfare state : Germany and Japan in comparative historical perspective / Philip Manow -- Strategic bargaining and social policy development :...

Modern challenges to the welfare state and the antecedents of the Third Way / Rebecca Surender -- Welfare philosophy and the Third Way / Stuart White -- One Third Way or several? / Giuliano Bonoli and Martin Powell -- Modernizing the state : a new style of governance? / Janet Newman -- Does the...