Bonoli, Giuliano, <br/><br/>
The origins of active social policy :  labour market and childcare polices in a comparative perspective / 
Giuliano Bonoli. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - Oxford :  Oxford University Press,  2013. 
 - viii, 219 pages ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>1.Introduction -- 2.Defining active social policy -- 3.Mapping variation in active social policies -- 4.Explaining the emergence of active social policy -- 5.Active labour market policies in a comparative perspective -- 6.Childcare policy in a comparative perspective -- 7.Quantitative evidence: the determinants of public spending on active labour market policy and childcare -- 8.The origins of active social policy. 
<br/><br/> Using both qualitative and quantitative analysis, this book examines why most Western European countries have reoriented their welfare states away from income protection and in the direction of employment promotion. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780199669769 (hbk.) :  £55.00 0199669767 (hbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2012537443 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Labor policy--Europe<br/>Child care--Government policy--Europe<br/>Health and Wellbeing.<br/>Welfare & benefit systems<br/>Political economy<br/>Europe<br/>Political science & theory<br/>Central / national / federal government policies
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Europe--Social policy.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HN373.5 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>362.61094 BON