Euros and Europeans monetary integration and the European model of society

Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-369) and indexes.

Introduction : EMU and the European social model / Andrew Martin and George Ross -- The EMU macroeconomic policy regime and the European social model / Andrew Martin -- Shaping a polity in an economic and monetary union : the EU in comparative perspective / Alberta M. Sbragia -- Monetary integration and the French model / George Ross -- EMU and German welfare capitalism / Nico A. Siegel -- Maastricht to modernization : EMU and the Italian social state / Vincent Della Sala -- Constraint or motor? Monetary integration and the construction of a social model in Spain / Sofía A. Pérez -- The Netherlands : monetary integration and the Polder model / Jos De Beus -- Belgium : monetary integration and precarious federalism / Philippe Pochet -- The political dynamics of external empowerment : the emergence of EMU and the challenge to the European social model / Kevin Featherstone -- Welfare reform in the shadow of EMU / Anton Hemerijck and Maurizio Ferrera -- Industrial relations in EMU : are renationalization and Europeanization two sides of the same coin? / Jon Erik Dølvik -- Conclusions / Andrew Martin and George Ross.