Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : democracy and the state in the new Southern Europe / P. Nikiforos Diamandouros [and others]
  • The welfare state and democracy : on the development of social security in Southern Europe, 1960-90 / Francis G. Castles
  • Social policy, democracy, and citizenship in Southern Europe / Marisol García and Neovi Karakatsanis
  • Democratic consolidation, judicial reform, and the judicialization of politics in Southern Europe / Pedro C. Magalhães, Carlo Guarnieri and Yorgos Kaminis
  • Old problems and new challenges : the enduring and changing functions of Southern European state bureaucracies / Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos
  • Multi-level governance and the transformation of regional mobilization and identity in Southern Europe, with particular attention to Catalonia and the Basque country / Iván Llamazares and Gary Marks
  • The environment, socioeconomic transformation, and political change in the new Southern Europe / Geoffrey Pridham and José Magone
  • Democratic and economic consolidation in Southern Europe / Stavros B. Thomadakis
  • Conclusion / Richard Gunther and P. Nikiforos Diamandouros.