This volume analyses the evolution of selected public policies and the changing roles and structure of the state in Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain since the 1960s. It makes a major contribution to work on recent democratic regime transition in southern Europe.

1. Democracy and the State in the New Southern Europe ; 2. The Welfare State and Democracy: On the Development of Social Security in Southern Europe ; 3. Social Policy, Democracy, and Citizenship in Southern Europe ; 4. Democratic Consolidation, Judicial Reform, and the Judicialization of Politics in Southern Europe ; 5. Old Problems and New Challenges: The Enduring and Changing Functions of Southern European State Bureaucracies ; 6. Multi-Level Governance and the Transformation of Regional Mobilization and Identity in Southern Europe, With Particular Attention to Catalonia and the Basque Country ; 7. The Environment, Socioeconomic Transformation, and Political Change in the New Southern Europe ; 8. Democratic and Economic Consolidation in Southern Europe ; 9. Conclusion