Bibliografía al final de cada capítulo.

Part I National Welfare Regimes during the COVID-19 Pandemic / Stefanie Börner and Martin Seeleib-Kaiser. 1 Policy Legacies, Welfare Regimes, and Social Policy Responses to COVID-19 in Europe / Daniel Béland y otrs. 2 Austerity and Adjustment from the Great Recession to the Pandemic—and Beyond / Klaus Armingeon and Stefano Sacchi. 3 The Territorial Dynamic of Social Policies during COVID-19 Lockdowns / Tatiana Saruis. 4 The United Kingdom in Search of a New “Imagined Community”? Social Cohesion, Boundary Building, and Social Policy in Crisis Periods / Matthew Donoghue.
Part II Challenges and Responses in Specific Policy Domains / Stefanie Börner and Martin Seeleib-Kaiser. 5 From Crisis to Opportunity? Recalibrating Health Care in Southern Europe in the Wake of the Pandemic / Emmanuele Pavolini. 6 Locked in Transition: Youth Labor Markets during COVID-19 in the United Kingdom, Norway, Estonia, and Spain / Jacqueline O’Reilly. 7 Enforcement of Minimum Labor Standards and Institutionalized Exploitation of Seasonal Agricultural Workers in the EU / Cecilia Bruzelius, Martin Seeleib-Kaiser. 8 Is the Recession a “Shecession”? Gender Inequality in the Employment Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Germany / Katja Möhring y otros.
Part III EU Social Policy / Stefanie Börner and Martin Seeleib-Kaiser. 9 Toward a Real Green Transition? Triple Constraints Holding Back EU Member States’ “Greening” Industrial Strategies / Zhen Jie Im. 10 COVID-19: An Accelerating Force for EU Activity in Health? / Mary Guy. 11 Non-centralized Coordination during a Transboundary Crisis: Examining Coronavirus Pandemic Responses in Four Federal Systems / Natalie Glynn. 12 European Integration as Complementary Institution-Building: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic / Georg Vobruba. Epilogue / Stefanie Börner and Martin Seeleib-Kaiser.

"Much has been written since the publication in 1990 of Esping-Andersen's The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism on the concept of welfare regime as an analytical tool to study social policy stability and change in Europe and beyond. As a concept, welfare regime emphasizes both stability over change and divergence between country clusters over convergence. Studying on concrete policy instruments rather than spending patterns and focusing on policies introduced to protect workers against the risk of unemployment and the loss of income, this chapter explores potential patterns of commonality and difference in the social policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in four distinct welfare regimes: the Bismarckian, the Nordic, the liberal, and the Southern European regimes. To add focus to our comparison, we focus on policies introduced to protect workers against the risk of unemployment or the loss of income as result of non-pharmaceutical interventions (lockdowns, school closures, etc.) to contain the spread of the virus. The emphasis of the analysis is on concrete policy instruments that have been expanded or even created to address the COVID-19 crisis with regard to employment and unemployment. Simultaneously, the analysis concentrates on national rather than subnational or supranational policies"--

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