Convergence or Diversity? Book

	Tables
	Preface
1	Introduction: An interdisciplinary approach to convergence	1
Pt. 1	Pressures of economic internationalization and directly affected policy fields	37
2	Financial market liberalization and monetary policy	39
3	European integration and fiscal policy options	57
4	International trade, multinational enterprises, and industrial policy choice	80
5	Labour mobility and migration policy: Lessons from Japan and the US	108
Pt. 2	Distributive policies	133
6	State competition with tax policy	135
7	A pendulum swing in conceptions of the welfare state	144
8	The 'social dumping' threat of European integration: A critique	182
9	Poverty regimes and life chances: The road to anomia?	200
Pt. 3	Allocative policies and policy styles	227
10	European health and safety regulation: No 'race to the bottom'	229
11	European integration, workers' participation, and collective bargaining: A Euro-pessimistic view	252
12	'Leaders' and 'laggards' in European clean air policy	278
13	Environmental policy in the European Union: The struggle between Court, Commission and Council	306
14	Persistence of national policy styles: A study of their institutional foundations	333
	About the authors	373