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1. Introduction: 'eppur si muove' - welfare state change despiteinstitutional inertia; 2. Modernization in hard times: the post-industrialpolitics of continental welfare state reform; Part I. Pension Reform inContinental Europe: A Framework of Analysis: 3. A new reform agenda: old agesecurity in the post-industrial era; 4. Changing alliances: conflict linesand actor configurations; 5. Reform outputs: strategies of coalitionalengineering; Part II. Determinants of Successful Pension Reform inContinental Europe: 6. France - trade union fragmentation as reformopportunity; 7. Germany - institutional obstacles to multidimensional reformpolitics; 8. Switzerland - recalibration as an enabling mechanism of pensioncompromises; 9. Conclusion: reform outputs and political implications.