Politics of segmentation: party competition and social protection in Europe

1. Party competition and social protection -- 2. Comparing Italy and Germany -- 3. Segmentation of unemployment benefits in advanced welfare states today -- 4. Italy and Germany : policy divergence after the Second World War -- 5. Italy and Germany : changing trends during welfare state restructuring -- 6. Explaining labour market reforms in Italy and Germany -- 7. Italy and Germany : political driving forces behind different post-war paths -- 8. Germany : two political logics of segmenting reforms -- 9. Italy : party system change facilitating de-segmentation -- 10. Party competition and benefit segmentation across advanced welfare states -- 11. Conclusions and future research.