Description: Contents: Introduction: an interdisciplinary approach to convergence; Pressures of Economic Internationalization and Directly Affected Policy Fields: Financial market liberalization and monetary policy; European integration and fiscal policy options; International trade, multinational enterprises, and industrial policy choice; Labour Mobility and Migration Policy: lessons from Japan and the US; Distributive Policies: State competition with tax policy; A pendulum swing in conceptions of the welfare state; The 'social dumping' threat of European integration: a critique; Poverty Regimes and Life Changes: the road to anomia?; Allocative Policies and Policy Styles: European health and safety regulation: no 'race to the bottom'; European integration, workers' participation, and collective bargaining: a euro-pessimistic view; 'Leaders' and 'laggards' in European clean air policy; Environmental policy in the European Union: the struggle between Court, Commission and Council; Persistence of national policy styles: a study of their institutional foundations.

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