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Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors List of Tables and Charts Introduction: Europe's Social Contract under Stress M. Rhodes & Y. Meny PART ONE: INTERPRETATIONS Unemployment and Social Exclusion: An Economic View P. Ormerod Poverty and Social Exclusion: A Sociological View S. Paugam Against Exclusion: the Poor and the Social Sciences G. Procacci PART TWO: WELFARE SYSTEMS UNDER STRESS The Four 'Social Europes': Between Universalism and Selectivity M. Ferrera The Evolution of Financial Poverty in Western Europe K. Van Den Bosch In Defence of Welfare: Social Protection and Social Reform in Eastern Europe U. Gotting PART THREE: WELFARE AND THE GLOBAL ARENA Negative and Positive Integration in the Political Economy of European Welfare States F. Scharpf Globalisation, Labour Markets and Welfare States: A Future of 'Competitive Corporatism'? M. Rhodes Global and Regional Agencies and the Making of Post-Communist Social Policy in Eastern Europe B. Deacon PART FOUR: THE SEARCH FOR A NEW SOCIAL CONTRACT The Social Contract and the Problem of the Firm C. Crouch European Social Citizenship: Why a New Social Contract Will (Probably) Not Happen B. Jordan Some Sceptical Reflections on EU Citizenship as the Basis of a New Social Contract C. Closa Index

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