Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- Global Capital, Democratic Institutions, and the Welfare State: A Theoretical Overview -- The Methodological Approach: Combining Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis -- The Organizational Structure of Analysis -- 2 Globalization, Democracy, and the Welfare State -- International Capital Mobility: An Overview -- The Impacts of International Capital Mobility: Diminished Democracy? -- The Economic Logic of International Capital Mobility -- The Political Logic of International Capital Mobility: Interests and Ideas -- The Indirect Effects of Globalization -- The Resilience of the Welfare State? -- A Summary of Principal and Supplementary Hypotheses -- Global Capital, Democratic Institutions, and the Welfare State -- Interests -- The Polity: Institutions for Interest Representation -- The Polity: Organization of Authoritative Decision Making -- The Institutional Structures of the Welfare State -- An Overview of Political Institutions Hypotheses -- Measuring Democratic Political Institutions -- 3 Global Capital, Political Institutions, and Contemporary Welfare State Development: Quantitative Analysis -- The Structure and Recent Development of Advanced Social Welfare States -- A Note on Empirical Indicators -- The Quantitative Analysis of Globalization, Political Institutions, and Welfare Effort -- The Methodological Approach to Quantitative Analysis -- Results of the Econometric Analysis -- A Run to the Bottom? -- Supplementary Hypotheses -- Democratic Institutions and the Mediated Impacts of Globalization -- Disaggregating the Analysis -- What We Know: Summing up the Quantitative Analysis.

4 Big Welfare States in Global Markets: Internationalization and Welfare State Reform in the Nordic Social Democracies -- The Nordic Welfare States: Characteristics, Continuities, and Change -- Patterns of Welfare State Change in the Nordic Cases -- International Capital Mobility in the Nordic Cases -- Globalization and Social Policy Change in Sweden -- Globalization and the Danish Welfare State -- Internationalization and Finnish Social Policy -- Global Capital and Policy Change in the Norwegian Welfare State -- Globalization, Political Institutions, and Welfare State Reform in the Nordic Countries -- Internationalization, Political Institutions, and the Nordic Welfare States -- 5 Globalization and Policy Change in Corporatist Conservative Welfare States -- The Corporatist Conservative Welfare States -- A Synopsis of Trends in Social Welfare Protection -- Internationalization and Policy Change in the Corporatist Conservative Welfare States -- Globalization and the German Welfare State -- Global Markets and the French Welfare State -- Internationalization and the Italian Welfare State -- Globalization, Political Institutions, and Corporatist Conservative Welfare States -- 6 Internationalization and Liberal Welfare States: A Synopsis -- Social Welfare Policy Change in the United States -- Internationalization and U.S. Social Welfare Reform -- Political Institutions and Policy Change in the American Welfare State -- Internationalization and Retrenchment of the British Welfare State -- Internationalization, Political Institutions, and the British Welfare State -- An Overview: Australia, Canada, and New Zealand -- 7 Assessing Long-Term Impacts: The Effect of Globalization on Taxation, Institutions, and Control of the Macroeconomy -- International Capital Mobility and Taxation -- An Overview of Theory and Evidence.

Assessing the Tax Impacts of International Capital Mobility -- Internationalization and Political Institutions: The Case of Social Corporatism -- Globalization and Social Corporatism: Empirical Evidence -- Globalization and Control of the Macroeconomy -- Summing Up -- 8 Conclusions: National Welfare States in a Global Economy -- Principal Conclusions and Summary of Findings -- Contributions to Theories of the Welfare State and Globalization -- Implications: Future Trajectories of Developed Welfare States -- Appendix A: Data Sources -- Data for Computation of Variables Measuring Internationalization -- Data for Computation of Variables Measuring Aspects of Policy/Government/Politics -- Socioeconomic Data -- Appendix B: Alternative Estimators -- References -- Index.