The Comparative History of Public Policy
Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Puzzles of Political Economy (Francis G Castles) 2. Social Protection by Other Means: Australia's Strategy of Coping With External Vulnerability (Francis G Castles) 3. Learning from Catastrophes: West Germany's Public Policy (Manfred G Schmidt) 4. The Comparative History of Public Policy in Israel (Michael Shalev) 5. `Pillarisation' and `Popular Movements' Two Variants of Welfare State Capitalism: The Netherlands and Sweden (Gordan Therborn) 6. Japan's Creative Conservatism: Continuity Under Challenge (T J Pempel) 7. The United Kingdom: Paradoxes of an Ungrounded Statism (Patrick Dunleavy) 8. Taking Exception: Explaining the Distinctiveness of American Public Policies in The Past Century (Edwin Amenta and Theda Skopol) Notes on Contributors.