Handbook of Comparative Social Policy, Second Edition

Handbook of Comparative Social Policy, Second Edition

Kennett, Patricia

Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd

06/2013

424

Dura

Inglês

9781849803663

15 a 20 dias

The contributions highlight specific areas of comparative social policy including child poverty and well-being, patterns of housing provision and housing inequalities, and social protection in East Asia as well as crime and criminology in a global context.
Contents: Introduction: The Changing Context of Comparative Social Policy Patricia Kennett PART I: THE STATE AND SOCIAL POLICY IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD 1. Hollowing Out the Nation-State' and Multi-Level Governance Bob Jessop 2. Globalization, Human Security and Social Policy: North and South Andres Perez-Baltodano 3. Globalization and the Decline of Social Protection by Other Means': The Transformation of Welfare Regimes in Australia, Japan and Eastern Europe Ramesh Mishra PART II: CONCEPTS AND DEFINITIONS 4. Defining Comparative Social Policy Jochen Clasen 5. Conceptualizing State and Society Graham Crow 6. The Ethnocentric Construction of the Welfare State Alan Walker and Chack-kie Wong 7. Translation: Towards a Critical Comparative Social Policy Agenda Noemi Lendvai and David Bainton PART III: COMPARING AND CATEGORIZING SOCIAL POLICY PROVISION AND REDISTRIBUTION 8. Gender, Citizenship and Welfare State Regimes in the Early Twenty-first Century: Incomplete Revolution' and/or Gender Equality Lost in Translation' Julia S. O'Connor 9. Structured Diversity: A Framework for Critically Comparing Welfare States? Norman Ginsburg 10. Social Development and Social Welfare: Implications for Comparative Social Policy James Midgley 11. Social Policy Regimes in the Developing World Ian Gough PART IV: THE RESEARCH PROCESS 12. Crossing Cultural Boundaries Linda Hantrais 13. Cross-National Qualitative Research Methods: Innovations in the New Millennium Steen Mangen 14. Quantitative Methods with Survey Data in Comparative Research Jaak Billiet PART V: THEMES AND DEBATES 15. Child Poverty and Child Well-being in Comparative Perspective Jonathan Bradshaw 16. The Contours of the Housing Question Ray Forrest 17. Global Economic Downturn and Social Protection in East Asia: Coping with Crisis and Reducing Poverty Huck-ju Kwon 18. Globalization, Crime and Comparative Criminal Justice David Nelken Index
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