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IntroductionAdalbert Evers and Jean-Louis LavilleIn the last decade of the twentieth century, it seemed as if Europe was about to rediscover itself through the eyes of an American legacy. What Tocqueville had detected in the formative process of the United States - the role of freely founded...

Preface This book of essays on the welfare state is the second volume of my selected published papers; the first dealt with macroeconomics. As in the first volume, I have endeavoured to include only papers that may be of somé generál interest. Because of space limitations, joint papers are...

PrefaceEuropean politics is a large subject and one whose contours aie rapidly changing. The distinction between western and eastern Europe which informed a generation of political science courses, may soon be iirelevant. The map of Europe itself is being altered by secessions and the growth of...