1 - Capitalism, social democracy and the welfare state - Industrialism, modernization and social democracy - Capitalism against the welfare state: classical political economy - Capitalism against the welfare state:Marx - Capitalism and the welfare state: symbiosis and support - Industrialism and the welfare state - Modernization and the welfare state - Traditional social democracy and the welfare state - Social democracy and the coming of the "Keynesian welfare state" - The power resources model 2 - Capitalism, social democracy and the welfare state II - Political economy and the welfare state - The new right and the welfare state - Public choice theory - The new right and the welfare state: a summary - Marxism, neo-Marxism and the welfare state - Twentieth century marxism and the welfare state - Neo-marxist analysis of the welfare state - Neo-marxism I: the welfare state as social control - Neo-marxism II: contradictions of the welfare state - The welfare state as "the crisis of crisis management": Offe post-fordism and the decline of the Keynesian welfare state 3 - Capitalism, social democracy and the welfare state III - Newsocial movements and the welfare state - Feminism and the welfare state - The anti-racist critique of the welfare state - The green critique of the welfare state - The historical uniqueness of welfare states development 4 - Origins and development of the welfare state 1880-1975 - Before the welfare state - Origins of the welfare state - the birth of the welfare state: 1880-1914 - Welfare states 1920-1975: the epoch of growth - The periodization of welfare state growth - 1918-1940: Consolidation and development - New deal and historic compromise - 1945-1975: the golden age of the welfare state? - The middle class welfare state - The growth of welfare state - 1945-1950: Reconstruction - 1950-1960:Relative stagnation - 1960-1975: major expansion 5 - After the golden age: from crisis through containment to structural adjustment - The crisis of the post-war welfare state - Welfare capitalism: from contingent crisis to systemic contraction - The new right and the crisis of liberal representative democracy - Crisis? What crisis? - Restructuring and retrenchment: the crisis contained - Crisis contained? 6 - Beyond the welfare state? - Markets v. the welfare state - A demographic crisis of the welfare state - Welfare state regimes - A typology of welfare state regimes - The regimes debate - Globalization: regime convergence at the bottom? - The welfare state: a victim of its ows sucess? - Growth to limits or limits to growth? - The challenge to social democracy - Reinstating social justice: the case of the borrie - The second marriage of justice and efficiency: the case for a basic income - Generative politics and positive welfare