This book takes stock of the major economic challenges that advanced industrial democracies have faced since the early 1990s and the responses by governments to them.

Anke Hassel is Professor of Public Policy at the Hertie School of Governance. Anke Hassel has extensive international experience and scientific expertise in the fields of the labour market, social partnership, codetermination, and the comparative political economy of developed industrial nations. She has also been a member of the German Federal Government's High-Tech Forum since January 2019.
Bruno Palier is CNRS Research Director at Sciences Po, Centre d'études européennes et de politique comparée. He was director of LIEPP (Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies) from October 2014 to July 2020. His research focuses on the comparative political economy of welfare state reforms.

• 1: Anke Hassel and Bruno Palier: Tracking the Transformation of Growth Regimes in Advanced Capitalist Economies


• 2: Peter Hall: How Growth Strategies Evolve in the Developed Democracies


• 3: Lucio Baccaro and Jonas Pontusson: European Growth Models Before and After the Great Recession


• 4: Georg Picot: Cross-National Variation in Growth Models: Three Sources of Extra Demand


• 5: Fritz Scharpf: Forced Structural Convergence in the Eurozone


• 6: Kathleen Thelen: Producer Coalitions and National Growth Strategies


• 7: Cathie Jo Martin: Growth Strategies and Employers' Coalitions: Renewing Welfare States


• 8: Anne Wren: 1. Strategies for Growth and Employment Creation in a Services Based Economy: Skill Formation, Equality, and the Welfare State


• 9: Alison Johnston: Always a Winning Strategy? Wage Moderation's Conditional Impact on Growth Outcomes


• 10: Alexander Reisenbichler: Housing Finance Markets Between Social Welfare and Growth Strategies


• 11: Tom Chevalier: Growth Strategies and Youth Welfare Citizenship: Youth and Skill Policies


• 12: Sonja Avlijaš, Anke Hassel, and Bruno Palier: Growth Strategies and Welfare State Reforms in Europe