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Conferences and Working Groups Welfare States and Social Policy in Southern and Eastern EU Member States This project is led by John Stephens and Evelyne Huber. The study of welfare states and social policy has been central to Europeanists for over a century. Recently, globalization, European integration and transformations in Central and Eastern Europe have reinvigorated and redirected political and scholarly debates about the structure, meaning and future trajectories of welfare states in Europe . At the same time, cross-disciplinary dialogues have focused attention on the implications of public welfare provisions for social and economic outcomes as diverse as economic growth and fertility, on linkages between welfare regimes and labor market dynamics and, more generally, on linkages between welfare regimes and production regimes. This group will host a workshop and lecture series examining the issue from the point of view of changes in the constellation of actors, of the preferences of different actors, and their role in bringing about policy changes, as well as from the point of view of changes in policies themselves and their consequences. The 2006 workshop will be held in cooperation with the Council for European Studies' newly formed Thematic Network on Welfare States and Social Policy and will focus on social policy in the new Southern member state of the 1980s and the new Eastern member states of the 2000s. Participants of the workshop include John Stephens and Evelyne Huber (UNC), Mitchell Orenstein ( Syracuse University ) and Jonas Pontusson ( Princeton University ). The expectation is that the workshop will produce a series of papers which will be edited into a volume by the organizers. Members of this working group include several who contributed to the volume Continuity and Change in Contemporary Capitalism.
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