Euros and Europeans : Monetary Integration and the European Model of Society (Hardcover)

1. Introduction Andrew Martin and George Ross; 2. The EMU macroeconomic policy regime and the European social model Andrew Martin; 3. Shaping a polity in an Economic and Monetary Union: the EU in comparative perspective Alberta Sbragia; 4. Monetary integration and the French model George Ross; 5. EMU and German welfare capitalism Nico A. Siegel; 6. Maastricht to modernization: EMU and the Italian social state Vincent Della Sala; 7. Constraint or motor? Monetary integration and the construction of a social model in Spain Sofia A. Perez; 8. The Netherlands: monetary integration and the polder model Jos De Beus; 9. Belgium: monetary integration and precarious federalism Philippe Pochet; 10. The political dynamics of external empowerment: the emergence of EMU and the challenge to the European social model Kevin Featherstone; 11. Welfare reform in the shadow of EMU Anton Hemerijick and Maurizio Ferrera; 12. Industrial relations in EMU: are re-nationization and Europeanization two sides of the same coin? Jon Erik Dolvik; 13. Conclusion Andrew Martin and George Ross.