International Social Policy Welfare Regimes in the Developed World 2nd Edition

by Alcock, Pete; Craig, Gary

• ISBN13: 9780230573192
• ISBN10: 0230573193
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-04-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Updating the successful first edition, this book offers an insightful comparative study of welfare provision throughout the developed world. Written by international experts, the book explores policy development, organisation, changes and trends. This is an indispensable resource for all students and scholars of global social policy.

Author Biography

PETE ALCOCK is Professor of Social Policy and Administration and Head of the School of Social Sciences at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is the author of Understanding Poverty. Third Edition (2006) and co-editor of the The Blackwell Companion to Social Policy, The Blackwell Dictionary of Social Policy and International Social Policy. He is past chair of the Social Policy Association and the Journal of Social Policy.

GARY CRAIG is Professor of Social Justice and Head of the Centre for Reserach in Social Inclusion and Social Injustice at the University of Hull. He is co-editor of Community Empowerment: An International Reader, and co-author of Community Work and the State. He is President of the International Association of Community Development.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures	p. ix
Notes on the Contributors	p. xi
List of Abbreviations	p. xv
Introduction and Acknowledgements	p. xvii
The International Context	p. 1
An American Welfare State?	p. 25
Canada: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back?	p. 45
Australia: From Wage-Earners to Neo-Liberal Welfare State	p. 66
New Zealand: From Early Innovation to Humanizing the Market	p. 88
The United Kingdom: Constructing a Third Way?	p. 109
Sweden: Between Model and Reality	p. 130
Germany: A Centrist Welfare State at the Crossroads	p. 148
Italy: Still a Pension State?	p. 171
Russia: State Socialism to Marketized Welfare	p. 190
Japan: Constructing the 'Welfare Society'	p. 210
Korea: Rescaling the Developmental Welfare State?	p. 231
China: The Art of State and Social Policy Remodelling	p. 247
South Africa: Transition Under Pressure	p. 267
Index	p. 287
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