Remaking the welfare state / Michael K. Brown -- Capitalism and the welfare state / Roger Friedland and Jimy M. Sanders -- The Reagan retrenchment in historical context / Barbara Gottschalk and Peter Gottschalk -- Popular power and the welfare state / Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward -- The unraveling of West German social democracy? / Andrei S. Markovits and Jost Halfmann -- The Mitterand experiment and the French welfare state / George Ross -- The British welfare state and Thatcher's new coalition / Joel Krieger -- The decline and revival of the American welfare state / J. David Greenstone -- The segmented welfare system / Michael K. Brown -- Problems and prospects of the welfare state in Italy / Enzo Mingione -- The unexpected consequences of privatization / Steven Rathgeb Smith and Deborah A. Stone -- Reagan and low- income mothers / Wendy Sarvasy -- Distress versus dependency / William Darity, Jr. and Samuel Myers, Jr. -- "Welfare" / Andrew Hacker