TY  - BOOK
AU  - Clasen, Jochen 
TI  - Comparative social policy: concepts, theories and methods.
SN  - 9780631207740
AV  - HN390.C73 
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Blackwell
KW  - Public welfare
KW  - Social policy
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -