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Dear colleagues – please find and distribute the following information on our new edited volume: *Bernhard Ebbinghaus & Elias Naumann (eds.) **/Welfare State Reforms Seen from Below: Comparing Public Attitudes and Organized Interests in Britain and Germany/**. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. * http://www.palgrave.com/de/book/9783319636511 http://www.springer.com/de/book/9783319636511* *Studying the political economy of welfare state reform, this edited collection focuses on the role of public opinion and organized interests in respect to policy change. It highlights that welfare states are hard pressed to reform in order to cope with ongoing socio-economic and demographic challenges. While public opinion is commonly seen to oppose welfare cuts and organized interests such as trade unions have tended to defend acquired social rights, this book shows that there have been emergent tendencies in favour of reform. /Welfare State Reforms Seen from Below /analyses a wide range of social policies affecting healthcare, pensions and the labour market to demonstrate how social groups and interest organizations differ and interact in their approaches to reform. Comparing Britain and Germany, with its two very different welfare states, it provides a European perspective on the changing approaches to welfare. More information on the project Welfare State Reforms from Below as part of the collaborative research centre “Political Economy of Reform” at University of Mannheim: http://reforms.uni-mannheim.de/projects/project_group_a/project_a6/ --------------- This message was sent through the ESA Research Network on Ageing in Europe (RN1) mailing list. For the Ageing in Europe website please visit: http://www.ageing-in-europe.net/ To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please visit: http://ageing-in-europe.net/mailinglist.html ---------------