1. From Social Fragmentation to Peace: Humanness, States, Modernization, and Welfare Christopher Lloyd

2. The General Crisis in 1890s Australia and the Long-term Effects of the ‘State Experiments’ Response Tim Battin and Christopher Lloyd

3. Nordic Development Paths Towards the Welfare State Jari Eloranta, Jari Ojala, Oriol Sabate Domingo

4. A Strong State Creates a Welfare State Susanna Fellman (with Riitta Hjerppe and Reino Hjeppe)

5. The Making of the Welfare State in Finland: Central and Local Government Perspectives Matti Hannikainen, Jarmo Peltola, Sakari Heikkinen

6. Decades of Disagreement: Rise of the Co-ordinated Welfare State in The Netherlands in the 19th and 20th Centuries Jeroen Touwen

7. The Politics of Economic Policy Coordination and the Making of the Coordination State in Austria Johanna Rainio-Niemi

8. The German Welfare State Between Path Dependency, Federalism and Political Shocks, 1880-2000 Marcel Boldorf

9. A Difficult Consensus: The Making of the Spanish Welfare State Sergio Espuelas

10. A Difficult Transition Path: The South African State and Nation Building, 1950 ? 2015 Grietjie Verhoef

11. The Evolution of the Welfare State in Korea from a Republican Perspective: From Development to Integration Huck-yu Kwon

12. Singapore HO Chi Tim

13. Real and Imagined Threats to the Welfare State Peter Lindert

14. Concluding Chapter: Future Transitions and the Lessons of History Christopher Lloyd and Matti Hannikainen