Handbook of Comparative Social Policy, Second Edition

Contents:

Introduction: The Changing Context of Comparative Social Policy
Patricia Kennett

PART I: THE STATE AND SOCIAL POLICY IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD
1. Hollowing Out the 'Nation-State' and Multi-Level Governance
Bob Jessop

2. Globalization, Human Security and Social Policy: North and South
Andres Perez-Baltodano

3. Globalization and the Decline of 'Social Protection by Other Means': The Transformation of Welfare Regimes in Australia, Japan and Eastern Europe
Ramesh Mishra

PART II: CONCEPTS AND DEFINITIONS
4. Defining Comparative Social Policy
Jochen Clasen

5. Conceptualizing State and Society
Graham Crow

6. The Ethnocentric Construction of the Welfare State
Alan Walker and Chack-kie Wong

7. Translation: Towards a Critical Comparative Social Policy Agenda
Noemi Lendvai and David Bainton

PART III: COMPARING AND CATEGORIZING SOCIAL POLICY PROVISION AND REDISTRIBUTION
8. Gender, Citizenship and Welfare State Regimes in the Early Twenty-first Century: 'Incomplete Revolution' and/or Gender Equality 'Lost in Translation'
Julia S. O'Connor

9. Structured Diversity: A Framework for Critically Comparing Welfare States?
Norman Ginsburg

10. Social Development and Social Welfare: Implications for Comparative Social Policy
James Midgley

11. Social Policy Regimes in the Developing World
Ian Gough

PART IV: THE RESEARCH PROCESS
12. Crossing Cultural Boundaries
Linda Hantrais

13. Cross-National Qualitative Research Methods: Innovations in the New Millennium
Steen Mangen

14. Quantitative Methods with Survey Data in Comparative Research
Jaak Billiet

PART V: THEMES AND DEBATES
15. Child Poverty and Child Well-being in Comparative Perspective
Jonathan Bradshaw

16. The Contours of the Housing Question
Ray Forrest

17. Global Economic Downturn and Social Protection in East Asia: Coping with Crisis and Reducing Poverty
Huck-ju Kwon

18. Globalization, Crime and Comparative Criminal Justice
David Nelken

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• Políticas da governo central
• Assistência social e serviços sociais
• As questões sociais e processos