Handbook of Comparative Social Policy, Hardcover by Kennett, Patricia (EDT), ...
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Handbook of Comparative Social Policy, Hardcover by Kennett, Patricia (EDT), .... Handbook of Comparative Social Policy, Hardcover by Kennett, Patricia (EDT), ISBN 1849803668, ISBN-13 9781849803663, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US These eighteen articles give comparative analyses and comprehensive coverage of cross-national and social policy research. They cover such topics as the state and social policy in a globalizing world, concepts and definitions comparing and categorizing social policy provision and redistribution, the research process, and themes and debates on such ideas as child poverty, housing, economic crises in East Asia, and crime. Individual topics include rearranging the "nation-state" and multi-level governance, impacts of human security and social policy (north and south), the transformation of social welfare in Austria and Japan as well as Eastern Europe, defining comparative social policy, the ethnocentric construction of the welfare state, gender equality, class equality, structured diversity, social policy in the developing world, crossing cultural boundaries, and quantitative methods of research. Annotation ©2014 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()
