Ebbinghaus, Bernhard & Moira Nelson (eds.)
Handbook on Welfare State Reform, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, August 2025.
Elgar Handbooks in Social Policy and Welfare series, ISBN: 978 1 83910 879 2 (cased) / 978 1 83910 880 8 (eBook)
[Introduction and Table of Contents], [Google book preview],
442 pages [discount flyer]

This comprehensive Handbook examines the capacity of advanced welfare states to adapt to sustained pressures and unforeseen crises. It explores the enduring relevance of established frameworks in explaining welfare state change as well as their effectiveness in addressing essential areas for reform.

Crisis Corporatism or Corporatism in Crisis?

Ebbinghaus, Bernhard and J. Timo Weishaupt (eds.) (2021) The Role of Social Partners in Managing Europe’s Great Recession: Crisis Corporatism or Corporatism in Crisis? Abingdon: Routledge (Routledge Studies in the Political Economy of the Welfare State). ISBN 9781032029740 (hbk., 30 July 2021). (Preview excerpts on Google Books) (download PDF of TOC & Introduction).

Welfare State Reforms

Bernhard Ebbinghaus & Elias Naumann (eds.) Welfare State Reforms Seen from Below: Comparing Public Attitudes and Organized Interests in Britain and Germany. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018 (hardcover); Springer Online (e-book).

Varieties of Pension Governance

Bernhard Ebbinghaus (ed.) (2011), The Varieties of Pension Governance: Pension Privatization in Europe, Oxford: Oxford University Press, UK: 2011. [Also available on: http://www.oxfordscholarship.com]

Reforming Early Retirement

Ebbinghaus, Bernhard (2006): Reforming Early Retirement in Europe, Japan and the USA, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
[331 pages; also available on Oxford Scholarship Online: http://www.oxfordscholarship.com (doi:10.1093/0199286116.001.0001); 2006 (ISBN 0-19-928611-6); pbk 2008 (ISBN 0-19-955339-6)]

Comparing Welfare Capitalism

Ebbinghaus, Bernhard & Philip Manow (eds.) (2001): Comparing Welfare Capitalism. Social Policy and Political Economy in Europe, Japan and the USA, (Routledge/EUI Studies in the Political Economy of the Welfare State 3), London/New York: Routledge, 2001.
[352 pages, ISBN 9-780-415-40653-6 (paperback) | ISBN 9-780-415-25571-4 (hardback)].

Trade Unions in Western Europe

Ebbinghaus, Bernhard & Jelle Visser (2000): Trade Unions in Western Europe since 1945, London: Macmillan/Palgrave (The Societies of Europe Series), 2000. [XXI, 807 pages, ISBN : 978-0-333-77112-9 Springer Link.]