Table of Contents: Modernity and the state :

Main Author:	Offe, Claus
Format:	Book
Language:	English German
Published:	London : Polity, c1996.
Subjects:	State, The Welfare state Social policy

Table of Contents:

1. The Utopia of the Zero Option: Modernity and Modernization asNormative Political Criteria
2. Bindings, Shackles, Brakes: OnSelf-Limitation Strategies
3. The Theory of the State in Search ofits Subject Matter: Observations on Current Debates
4.Social-Scientific Aspects of the Regulation-Deregulation Debate
5.Constitutional Policy in Search of the "Will of the People"
6. StateAction and Structures of Collective Will Formation: Elements of theSocial-Scientific Theory of the State
7. Beyond the Labor Market:Reflections on a New Definition of "Domestic" Welfare Production /Claus Offe and Rolf G. Heinze
8. Democracy Against the WelfareState?
9. The Acceptance and Legitimacy of Strategic Options inSocial Policy
10. A Basic Income Guaranteed by the State: A Need ofthe Moment in Social Policy / Claus Offe, Ulrich Muckenberger and IlonaOstner
11. The Politics of Social Policy in East EuropeanTransitions: Antecedents, Agents, and Agendas of Reform.