ABSTRACT
This special issue, guest-edited by Francisco Javier Fuentes-Moreno and Pau Marí-Klose, who have done an excellent job on it, brings into focus social patterns and policies of the Southern Rim of Europe. Is there a special Southern social pattern, comparable to the Nordic, Continental, and Anglo-Saxon ‘welfare regimes’? Or was it a transitory phenomenon, a conceptual stopgap of the mid 1990s to cope with lacunae of the original Trinitarian world of welfare capitalism?
