Research Catalog

Title

Comparative social policy : concepts, theories, and methods / edited by Jochen Clasen.

Publication

Oxford ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 1999.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

Clasen, Jochen.

Description

xii, 282 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Providing students with an introduction to cross-national social policy research, this text conveys issues involved in conducting the research, examining the theoretical, conceptual and methodological approaches.

Subject

• Social policy
• Social policy > Cross-cultural studies
• Welfare state
• Public Policy
• public policy
• Welfare state
• Social policy
• Internationaler Vergleich
• Sozialpolitik
• Vergleichende Forschung
• Verzorgingsstaat
• Welzijn
• Sociale politiek

Genre/Form

Cross-cultural studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-275) and index.

Contents

Trends and developments in welfare states / Catherine Jones Finer -- Theories and methods in comparative social policy / Deborah Mabbett and Helen Bolderson -- Comparative housing policy / John Doling -- Institutions, states and cultures / Richard Freeman -- Full circle / John Ditch -- Comparative approaches to long-term care for adults / Susan Tester -- Unemployment compensation and other labour-market policies / Jochen Clasen -- The 'problem' of lone motherhood in comparative perspective / Jane Lewis -- Inside out / Simon Roberts and Helen Bolderson -- Accumulated disadvantage? / Katherine Rake.

ISBN

• 0631207732
• 9780631207733
• 0631207740
• 9780631207740

LCCN

98035149

OCLC

• ocm39533130
• 39533130
• SCSB-8965357

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library