Focusing on the perspectives of policy-makers the book's purpose is to closely examine the
factors that make for successful unsuccessful labor market related policy reforms. The aim is
to reveal the political aspects namely the chances challenges and impediments to designing
labor market reforms and to establish the conditions under which successful labor market
reforms can be advocated adopted and implemented (process). The work includes exclusive
interviews with twelve former European prime ministers about the labour market reforms they
initiated in their respective countries: Wolfgang Schüssel Anders Fogh Rasmussen Andrus Ansip
François Fillon Gerhard Schröder Georgios Papandreou Mario Monti Jan Peter Balkenende Jerzy
Buzek Iveta Radicová Luis Rodríguez Zapatero Tony Blair
