Comparing Welfare States (Published in association with The Open University) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761970908 ISBN 13: 9780761970903

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2001

Synopsis

This accessible, broad-ranging textbook provides a critical introduction to British and comparative social policy. Drawing on the comparative analysis of welfare regimes, the book show how the welfare systems of individual countries can only be understood thorugh exploring the wider global context. The chapters highlight the richness, complexity and dynamics of welfare regimes in different countries, while ar the same time considering shared features and trends.

Comparing Welfare States provides a unique way into analysis of the British welfare state through its wider international focus. In this extensively revised second edition, the British case is related to the experiences of the United States of America, Swede

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Praise of the First Edition

`A clear and concise introduction to comparative social policy. It provides students with a framework in which to analyse the British welfare regime and to compare it with those developed and developing elsewhere′ - Hilary Graham, Professor of Applied Social Studies, University of Warwick

`This book is well written and presented. It develops current issues in social policy from an historical perspective in a lively and absorbing way. I would recommend it for students taking undergraduate courses, whether conventional courses, or for parts of distance-learning texts′ - Social Sciences in Health

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0761970908
• ISBN 13: 9780761970903
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 304
• Editor: Cochrane Allan Douglas, Clarke John H., Gewirtz Sharon