ANA ARRIBA Postdoctoral Researcher with the Spanish National Research Council (UPC-CSIS), Madrid, Spain ANDREAS AUST self-employed Social Scientist FRANK BÖNKER Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder) and Research Fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Transformation Studies, Germany JOHANNES KANANEN Research Assistant on project Welfare Reform and the Management of Societal Change, University of Kent, UK TRINE P. LARSEN Research Assistant on project Welfare Reform and the Management of Societal change, University of Kent, UK LUIS MORENO Senior Research Fellow at the Spanish National Research Council, CSIC, Madrid, Spain BRUNO PALIER CNRS Researcher in Centre d'Études de la Vie Politique Française, Paris, France VIRPI TIMONEN Lecturer in Social Policy and Ageing at the Department of Social Studies, Trinity College Dublin, Republic of Ireland