Comparative Social Policy Concepts, Theories

Comparative Social Policy provides students with an introduction to cross-national social policy research, conveying the fascinating and challenging issues involved in conducting research of this kind. The book examines the theoretical, conceptual and methodological approaches, discusses prevailing concepts and reflects on methodological difficulties.

Jochen Clasen is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy in the Department of Applied Social Science, Stirling University. He has recently edited Social Insurance in Europe (1997) and co-authored (with A. Gould and J. Vincent) Voices Within and Without: Responses to long-term unemployment in Germany, Sweden and Britain (1998), both of which are published by The Polity Press.

List of Tables
List of Contributors
Introduction
Welfare States and Comparative Social Policy:
Trends and Developments in Welfare States
Theories and Methods in Comparative Social Policy
Comparative Analyses in Selected Policy Fields:
Comparative Housing Policy
Institutions, States and Cultures: Health Policy and Politics in Europe
Comparing Family Policies in Europe
Full Circle: a Second Coming for Social Assistance?
Comparative Approaches to Long-term Care for Adults
Unemployment Compensation and Other Labour-Market Policies
Themes and Topics in Comparative Social Policy:
The 'Problem' of Lone Motherhood in Comparative Perspective
Inside Out: Migrants' Disentitlement to Social Security Benefits in the EU
Accumulated Disadvantage? Welfare State Provision and the Incomes of Older Women and Men in Britain, France and Germany
Bibliography
Index
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Comparative Social Policy Concepts, Theories and Methods

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