Comparative Social Policy
1st Edition
Published on 1. August 2001
194 pages
978-0-335-23200-0 (ISBN)
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Comparative Social Policy explores the new context of social policy and considers how cross-national theory and research can respond to the challenges facing welfare. This book extends and deepens cross-national esearch by exploring the theoretical and conceptual frameworks through which social policy and welfare systems have been understood.
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Patricia Kennett
COMPARATIVE SOCIAL POLICY
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08/2001
Open University Press
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Content
- Front Cover
- Half-title
- Editor Series
- Titel Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- List of boxes and tables
- Notes on contributors
- Series editor's foreword
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- The changing context of social policy
- Nation, state and welfare in cross-national research
- Clarifying concepts in cross-national social policy analysis
- Approaches to cross-national analysis
- Fragmentation, differentiation and social exclusion
- Chapter 1: Globalization, supranationalism and social policy
- Introduction
- The shaping of a globalized world
- Capitalism, democracy and deregulation
- Transnational corporations, mobile capital and the 'race to the bottom'
- International institutions and non-governmental organizations
- Culture and communication: globalization or polarization?
- An ideological shift: from Keynesianism to neo-liberalism
- The state, the economy and social policy
- Intergovernmental policy, multilevel governance or supranational social policy?
- Multilevel governance, social policy and the European Union
- Conclusion
- Further reading
- Chapter 2: Defining and constructing the research process
- Introduction
- What is cross-national comparative social research?
- Equivalence in meanings and concepts
- Conceptualizing disadvantage
- Collecting and interpreting international data
- Measuring the workforce: conceptual and definitional problems
- Harmonized data: help or hindrance?
- Conclusion
- Further reading
- Chapter 3: Theory and analysis in cross-national social policy research
- Introduction
- Industrialization and modernization
- Politics, ideology and the welfare state
- Shift in theory and analysis
- Recognizing difference and diversity
- Welfare state typologies
- The gendered and ethnocentric construction of social welfare
- Conclusion
- Further reading
- Chapter 4: Development, social welfare and cross-national analysis
- Introduction
- Development as a discourse
- Theorizing development and the Third World
- Development and social welfare
- The New Right, structural adjustment and developing countries
- Reviewing the research paradigm
- Non-governmental organizations and the state
- Conclusion
- Further reading
- Chapter 5: Ethnicity, gender and the boundaries of citizenship: Australia, Britain and Japan
- Introduction
- The citizenship theme
- Welfare and citizenship
- Linking citizenship and gender
- Policy logics of race, ethnicity and the nation
- Restructuring and a renegotiation of the social contract
- Conclusion
- Further reading
- Chapter 6: The future of comparative social policy research
- Supranational social policy?
- A global research strategy
- Conclusion
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
- Back Cover
