The Mediterranean Welfare Regime and the Economic Crisis

This book brings into focus social patterns and policies of the Southern Rim of Europe and asks if there is a special Southern social pattern, comparable to the Nordic, Continental, and Anglo-Saxon Welfare regimes. This question has a new political and socio-economic relevance with the current debt and finance crisis of these countries._x005F_x000D_ This book was originally published as a special issue of European Societies.