Welfare States under Pressure provides a comprehensive review of welfare policy-making in Europe. It takes a fresh approach in its analysis of the future of the welfare state in Europe. It suggests that opportunities for radical change in welfare systems are now opening up, and that there will be little continuity between the future and the past/present of the welfare system in Europe.

The Politics of Welfare in Europe - Peter Taylor-Gooby
Earning Welfare Citizenship - Virpi Timonen
Welfare State Reform in Finland and Sweden
Reshaping the Social Policy-Making Framework in France - Bruno Palier
Stumbling towards Reform - Frank Bönker and Hellmut Wollmann
The German Welfare State in the 1990s
Spain, A Via Media of Welfare Development - Luis Moreno
Switzerland - Giuliano Bonoli
Stubborn Institutions in a Changing Society
Welfare Reform in the UK - Peter Taylor-Gooby
The Construction of a Liberal Consensus
Polity, Policy-Making and Welfare Futures - Peter Taylor-Gooby