I: Sources of Pressure on the Contemporary Welfare State c Round Up the Usual Suspects! Globalization, Domestic Politics, and Welfare State Change a Herman Schwartz c The Dynamics of Welfare State Expansion: Trade Openness, De-industrailization and Partisan Politics a Torben Iversen c Post-Industrial Pressure on Mature Welfare States a PiersonII: Adjustment Dynamics: Economic Actors and Systems of interest Intermediation c Welfare States and production Regimes in an Era of Retrenchment a Evelyne Huber and John Stephens c Comparative Institutional Advantages of Welfare State regimes and New Coalitions in Welfare State Reforms a Pilip Manow c The Political Economy of Social Pacts: 'Competative Corporatism' and European Welfare ReformsIII: Adjustment Dynamics: Parties, Elections, and Political Institutions c Political Institutions and Welfare State Restructuring a Duane Swank c Political Institutions, Veto Points, and the Process of Welfare State Adaptation a Giuliano BoboliIV: Comparing Policy Domains c The Comparative Political Economy of Pension Reform a John Myers and Paul Pierson c Who Pays for Health care Reform? a Susan Giamo c Labour Market Regimes Under Threat? Sources of Continuity in Germany, Britain, and Sweden a Stewart WoodV. Conclusion c Coping with Permanent Austerity: Welfare State Restructuring in Affluent Democracies a Paul Pierson.