Changing Boundaries of the Political

This investigation of the political in Europe since the 1960s newly illuminates advanced industrial economies.

Acknowledgments; Introduction Charles S. Amier; Part I. Re-forming the Political: 1. Politics unbound Alessandro Pizzorno; 2. Challenging the boundaries of institutional politics: social movements since the 1960s Claus Offe; 3. Religious transformation and the future of politics Suzanne Berger; 4. The politics of time: changing paradigms of collective time and private time in the modern era Charles S. Maier; Part II. Changing Boundaries of Political Activity: 5. Long waves in the development of welfare systems Massimo Paci; 6. Family, women, and the state: notes toward a typology of family roles and public intervention Laura Balbo; 7. Health care and the boundaries of politics Paul Starr and Ellen Immergut; 8. The politics of Wissenschaftspolitik in Weimar Germany: a prelude to the dilemmas of twentieth-century science policy Gerald D. Feldman; 9. The survival of the state in European international relations Miles Kahlar; Part III. Uncertain Boundaries for Political Economy: 10. Expanding budgets in a stagnating economy: the experience of the 1970s Jan Pen; 11. Problems of political economy after the postwar period John H. Goldthorpe; Index.