Euros and Europeans : Monetary Integration and the European Model of Society

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. Pé rez 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.