This panel is composed of papers that will appear in the Oxford Handbook of Transformations of the State which is scheduled to appear in 2014.  Part III of the Handbook focuses on state transformation in the OECD group of countries from the end of post World War II to the present.  The initial four chapters of Part III cover state transformation in the four types of political economies which existed in the Golden Age of postwar capitalism (1945-1973), statist, corporatist, liberal, and import substitution.  The panel will consist of three of these four chapters and the introduction to Part III.