01667nam a22001577a 4500008004100000020001800041050001400059245009000073260003100163300003400194505093900228520028401167650002001451650001801471700002001489120620t        xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9780631207740  aHN390.C73  aComparative social policy: concepts, theories and methods. /cEdited by Jochen Clasen  aOxford:bBlackwell,c1999.  axii, 282 p. :b il. ;c24 cm.  aIntroduction / 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.  aProviding 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  aPublic welfare   aSocial policy  aClasen, Jochen