Comparative social policy: concepts, theories and methods. / 
Edited by Jochen Clasen 
 - Oxford:  Blackwell,  1999. 
 - xii, 282 p. :   il. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Introduction / Jochen Clasen --  Trends and developments in welfare states / Catherine Jones Finer --  Theories and methods in comparative social policy / Deborah Mabbett and Helen Bolderson --  Comparative housing policy / John Doling --  Institutions, states and cultures: Health policy and politics in Europe / Richard Freeman --  Comparing family policies in Europe / Linda Hantrais --  Full circle: A second coming for social assistance? / John Ditch --  Comparative approaches to long-term care for adults / Susan Tester. Unemployment compensation and other labour-market policies / Jochen Clasen --  The problem of lone motherhood in comparative perspective / Jane Lewis --  Inside out: Migrants' disentitlement to Social Security benefits in the EU / Simon Roberts and Helen Bolderson --  Accumulated disadvantage? Welfare state provision and the incomes of older women and men in Britain, France and Germany / Katherine Rake. 
<br/><br/> Providing students with an introduction to cross-national social policy research, this text conveys issues involved in conducting the research, examining the theoretical, conceptual and methodological approaches, and discussing prevailing concepts and methodological difficulties 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780631207740 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Public welfare <br/>Social policy
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HN390.C73