Public and Private Social Policy

1. Introduction: Public and Private?
Daniel Béland, Brian Gran

2. Balancing Acts: Trends in the Public-Private Mix in Health Care
Debra Street

3. Orienting the Public-Private Mix of Pensions
Patrik Marier, Suzanne Skinner

4. Extensive but Not Inclusive: Health Care and Pensions in the United States
Christopher Howard, Edward D. Berkowitz

5. The Canada Paradox: The Public-Private Divide in Health Insurance and Pensions
Gerard W. Boychuk, Keith G. Banting

6. New Zealand: The Expansion of the State in a Liberal Welfare Regime
Toni Ashton, Susan St John

7. Much Noise, Little Progress: The UK Experience of Privatization
Peter Taylor-Gooby, Lavinia Mitton

8. Sweden: Markets within Politics
Karen M. Anderson, Paula Blomqvist, Ellen M. Immergut

9. Germany: The Public-Private Dichotomy in the Bismarckian Welfare Regime
Sven Jochem

10. The Swiss Welfare State: A Changing Public-Private Mix?
Fabio Bertozzi, Fabrizio Gilardi

11. The Japanese Familial Welfare Mix at a Crossroads
Toshimitsu Shinkawa

12. New Political Legacies and the Politics of Health and Pension Re-reforms in Chile
Christina Ewig, Stephen J. Kay

13. Conclusion: Revisiting the Public-Private Dichotomy
Brian Gran, Daniel Béland

Keywords: Social Sciences, Politics of the Welfare State, Public Policy, Sociology, general, Social Care, Public Administration, Wealth Management/Pension Planning