Includes bibliographical references and index.

Diversity and drift in an age of austerity / Martin A. Levin -- Reform without change, change without reform : the politics of U.S. health policy reform in cross-national perspective / Jacob S. Hacker -- Public pension regimes in an age of austerity / R. Kent Weaver -- Activation through thick and thin : progressive strategies for increasing labor force participation / Jonah D. Levy -- Immigration reform in comparative perspectives : sunshine and shadow politics in the United States and Europe / Virginie Guiraudon -- The European Union and the diffusion of disability rights / Thomas F. Burke -- The hare and the tortoise revisited : the new politics of risk regulation in Europe and the United States / David Vogel -- The politics of environmental policy in the United States and the European Union : coercive federalism / R. Daniel Kelemen -- Austerity politics, the new public management, and administrative reform in the United States, Britain, and France / Adam D. Sheingate -- The state of the corporation : state power, politics, policymaking, and corporate governance in the United States, Germany, and France / John W. Cioffi -- Politics and policy : a transatlantic perspective / Martin Shapiro.