This is the much anticipated revised second edition of a volume that was welcomed at its first appearance as 'the most authoritative survey and critique of the welfare state yet published'. It is an indispensable one-volume guide to what modern states spend most of their time and money doing.

1: Daniel Béland, Kimberly Morgan, Herbert Obinger, and Christopher Pierson: Introduction Part I: Philosophical Justifications and Critiques of the Welfare State 2: Stuart White: Ethics 3: Christopher Pierson and Matthieu Leimgruber: Intellectual Roots 4: Gerda Hooijer and Desmond King: The Critics of Welfare: From Neoliberalism to Populsm Part II: History 5: Stein Kuhnle and Anne Sander: The Emergence of the Western Welfare State 6: Frank Nullmeier and Franz-Xaver Kaufmann: Post-War Welfare State Development: The 'Golden Age' 7: Anton Hemerijk and Stefano Ronchi: Recent Developments: Social Investment Reform in the 21st Century Part III: Approaches 8: Edwin Amenta and Alexander Hicks: Research Methods 9: Willem Adema and Peter Whiteford: Public and Private Social Welfare 10: Daniel Béland and Kimberly Morgan: Governance 11: Julian L. Garritzmann, Silja Häusermann, and Bruno Palier: Social Investment 12: Mary Daly: Families, State, and Markets 13: Einar Øverbye: Disciplinary Perspectives on Welfare States Part IV: Inputs and Actors 14: Jan Zutavern & Martin Kohli: Needs and Risks in the Welfare State 15: Torben Iversen: Democracy and Capitalism 16: Bernhard Ebbinghaus: Unions and Employers 17: Manfred G. Schmidt: Parties 18: Ellen M. Immergut: Political Institutions 19: Staffan Kumlin, Achim Goerres, and Dennis C. Spies: Public Attitudes 20: Ann Shola Orloff and Marie Laperriere: Gender 21: Kees Van Kersbergen and Philip Manow: Religion 22: Simone Scarpa, Stephen Castles, and Carl-Ulrik Schierup: Migration and Ethnic Minorities 23: Manfred G. Schmidt: European and National Social Policy 24: Klaus Armingeon: Intergovernmental Organizations 25: Duane Swank: Globalization Part V: Policies 26: Herbert Obinger: Social Expenditure and Welfare State Financing 27: Karin Gottschall nad Markus Tepe: The Welfare State as Employer 28: Karl Hinrichs and Julia F. Lynch: Old-Age Pensions 29: Heinz Rothgang: Health 30: August Österle and Heinz Rothgang: Long-Term Care 31: Olli Kangas: Work Accident and Sickness Benefits 32: Mark Priestley: Disability 33: Ola Sjöberg, Joakim Palme, and Eero Carroll: Unemployment Insurance 34: Lane Kenworthy: Employment Promotion 35: Patrick Emmenegger and Paul Marx: The Regulation of Employment 36: Thomas Bahle and Claus Wendt: Social Assistance 37: Naomi Finch and Jonathan Bradshaw: Family Benefits and Services 38: Tony Fahey and Michelle Norris: Housing 39: Marius R. Busemeyer and Rita Nikolai: Education Part VI: Policy Outcomes 40: John D. Stephens: The Social Rights of Citizenship 41: Peter Saunders: Inequality and Poverty 42: Christopher Pierson and Isabela Mares: Macroeconomic Outcomes 43: Jennifer Hook and Leah Ruppanner: Gendered Outcomes 44: Jonah D. Levy: Welfare Retrenchment Part VII: World of Welfare 45: Philip Manow: Models of the Welfare State 46: Mikko Kautto and Kati Kuitto: The Nordic Countries 47: Bruno Palier: Continental Western Europe 48: Maurizio Ferrara: The South European Countries 49: Christoper Pierson and Francis G. Castles: The English-Speaking Countries 50: Linda J. Cook and Tomasz Inglot: Central and Eastern European Countries Prospects 51: Ian Gough: From Welfare State to Planetary Wellbeing

This second edition is an extensive revision of the first, re-written to reflect the changes over the past ten years Features brand new chapters Takes into account real-world developments in welfare regimes as well as intellectual trends in the study of these systems A comprehensive, comparative introduction to everything that is important in the contemporary developed welfare state, focusing on Western welfare states

Daniel Béland is Director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada and James McGill Professor in the Department of Political Science at McGill University. A specialist of comparative fiscal and social policy, he has published 20 books and more than 150 articles in peer-reviewed journals. Kimberly J. Morgan is Professor of Political Science at George Washington University. Her work examines the politics shaping public policies, with particular interests in migration and social welfare. She is the author Working Mothers and the Welfare State: Religion and the Politics of Work-Family Policy in Western Europe and the United States (Stanford University Press, 2006) and The Delegated Welfare State: Medicare, Markets, and the Governance of American Social Policy (OUP, 2011), and co-editor of several volumes, including The Many Hands of the State: Theorizing Political Authority and Social Control (Cambridge University Press, 2017). Herbert Obinger is a Professor of Comparative Public and Social Policy at the University of Bremen. He has published widely on the historical development of the welfare state in advanced democracies and comparative political economy. Chris Pierson is Emeritus Professor of Politics at the University of Nottingham. His work covers the inter-related themes of property, social democracy and the welfare state. His Beyond the Welfare State (1991) remains one of the most widely-cited books in the field.

This second edition is an extensive revision of the first, re-written to reflect the changes over the past ten years Features brand new chapters Takes into account real-world developments in welfare regimes as well as intellectual trends in the study of these systems A comprehensive, comparative introduction to everything that is important in the contemporary developed welfare state, focusing on Western welfare states