International social policy : welfare regimes in the developed world / edited by Pete Alcock and Gary Craig.
Material type: TextPublication details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.Edition: 2nd edDescription: 320 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780230573192 (hbk.) :
- 9780230573208 (pbk.) :
- 0230573207 (pbk.)
- 0230573193 (pbk.)
- 9780230573192 (hbk.)
- 9780230573208 (pbk.)
- 361.91722 ALC
- HN17.5
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Previous ed.: Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001.
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1.The international context. Pete Alcock and Gary Craig -- 2.An American welfare state? John Clarke (with Frances Fox Piven) -- 3.Canada: One step forward, two steps back? Ernie S. Lightman and Graham Riches -- 4.Australia: from wage-earners to neo-liberal welfare state. Lois Bryon and Fiona Verity -- 5.New Zealand: from early innovation to humanzing the market. Judith Davey and Sandra Grey -- 6.The United Kingdom: constructing a third way? Pete Alcock -- 7.Sweden: between model and reality. Tapio Salonen -- 8.Germany: a centrist welfre state at the crossroads. Lutz Liesering -- 9.Italy: still a pension state? Valeria Fargion -- 10.Russia: state socialism to marketized welfare. Nadia Davidova and Nick Manning -- 11.Japan: constructing the \'welfare society\'. Takafumi Ken Uzuhashi -- 12.Korea: rescaling the developmental welfare states? Huck-ju Kwon -- 13.China: the art of state and social policy remodelling. Ka Lin -- 14.South Africa: transition under pressure. Francie Lund.
Updating the successful first edition, this book offers an insightful comparative study of welfare provision throughout the developed world. Written by international experts, the book explores policy development, organisation, changes and trends.