Cap.1 Globalization and the limits to poverty alleviation / Pranab Bardhan. Cap. 2 Social protection in a supranational context: European integration and the fates of the "European social model" / Claus Offe. Cap. 3 Threat effects of capital mobility on wage bargaining / Minsik Choi. Cap.4 Constraints, opportunities, and information: financial market-government relations around the world / Layna Mosley. Cap. 5 Egalitarian redistribution in globally integrated economies / Samuel Bowles. Cap. 6. Social democracy as a development strategy / Karl Ove Moene & Michael Wallerstein. Cap. 7 Globalization and democracy / Adam Przeworski & Covadonga Meseguer Yebra. Cap. 8 Between redistribution and trade: the political economy of protectionism and domestic compensation / Carles Boix. Cap. 9 Public opinion, international economic integration, and the welfare state / Kenneth Scheve & Matthew J. Slaughter. Cap. 10 Immigration and redistribution in a global era / Stuart Soroka, Keith Banting & Richard Johnston. Cap. 11 Economic integration, cultural standardization, and the politics of social insurance / Samuel Bowles & Ugo Pagano. Conclusion / Pranab Bardhan, Samuel Bowles & Michael Wallerstein.