Comparing Welfare States / Edition 2

by Allan Douglas Cochrane, John H. Clarke, Sharon Gewirtz

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761970903
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	07/23/2001
Series:	Published in association with The Open University
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	7.44(w) x 9.68(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Comparing Welfare States? - Allan Cochrane, John Clarke and Sharon Gewirtz
The Construction of the British Welfare State 1945 - 1975 - John Clarke, Mary Langan and Fiona Williams
Remaking Welfare - John Clarke, Mary Langan and Fiona Williams
The British welfare regime in the 1980s and 1990s
US Welfare - John Clarke
Variations on the Liberal Regime
Germany - Lynne Poole
A Conservative Regime in Crisis?
Sweden - Norman Ginsburg
The Social Democratic Case
Ireland - Eugene Mc Laughlin
From Catholic Corporatism to Social Partnership
Looking for a European Welfare State - Allan Cochrane, John Clarke and Sharon Gewirtz

Editorial Reviews

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

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