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Joseph Wong

The Welfare State in East Asia

During the postwar period, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea emerged as industrial and democratic exemplars in the East Asia region. A less well-known story is of their equally remarkable achievements in soci…

David Lance Callahan

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Joseph Wong

The Welfare State in East Asia

During the postwar period, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea emerged as industrial and democratic exemplars in the East Asia region. A less well-known story is of their equally remarkable achievements in soci…

The Korean Welfare State

This book examines the evolution of the Korean welfare state over the last several decades and the challenges it currently faces as a rapidly aging society. Since the turn of the 21st century, the Korean …

Mary Klann

Wardship and the Welfare State

Wardship and the Welfare State examines the ideological dimensions and practical intersections of public policy and Native American citizenship, Indian wardship, and social welfare rights after World War …

Overlapping Inequalities in the Welfare State

The volume stresses the relevance of the intersectionality framework in welfare state analysis by examining overlapping inequalities within the shifting institutional boundaries and organisational process…

Derek Fraser

The Evolution of the British Welfare State

This established introductory textbook provides students with a full overview of British social policy and social ideas since the late 18th century. It is the essential starting point for anyone learning …

Anton Hemerijck, Manos Matsaganis

Who's Afraid of the Welfare State Now?

This book primarily explores the welfare-policy responses to the Great Recession, reform trajectories that swept across Europe over the last decade, with a final chapter that focuses on Covid-19 welfare m…

Ilán Bizberg

Four Worlds of the Welfare State in Latin America

This book explores the trajectories and structures of Latin American welfare states using a typology developed through conceptual and historical analyses of social protection systems in Latin America. It …

Pat Thane

The Rise and Fall of the British Welfare State

For the past decade at least 25% of the UK population and 30% of children have been in poverty by internationally accepted measures, and the numbers keep rising. In The Rise and Fall of the British Welfar…

Pat Thane

The Rise and Fall of the British Welfare State

For the past decade at least 25% of the UK population and 30% of children have been in poverty by internationally accepted measures, and the numbers keep rising. In The Rise and Fall of the British Welfar…

Bent Greve

De Gruyter Handbook of Contemporary Welfare States

Welfare States have evolved and developed over now close to the last 150 years, although not in all countries at all times in the same direction implying that they are still very diverse. There was a time…

Anton Hemerijck, Manos Matsaganis

Who's Afraid of the Welfare State Now?

This book primarily explores the welfare-policy responses to the Great Recession, reform trajectories that swept across Europe over the last decade, with a final chapter that focuses on Covid-19 welfare m…

Transformations of European Welfare States and Social Rights

This open access edited book investigates European social rights in practice from socio-legal perspectives. It brings together fourteen socio-legal scholars, representing Nordic and Western European count…

Transformations of European Welfare States and Social Rights

This open access edited book investigates European social rights in practice from socio-legal perspectives. It brings together fourteen socio-legal scholars, representing Nordic and Western European count…

Alex Fenton

Fenton, A: Official Statistics and the Welfare State

From populations to pandemics, official statistics are indispensable to thinking about modern society. Alex Fenton sets out a sociological approach to analysing how these powerful numbers are produced by …

Elias Phaahla

The Political Economy of Divergent Welfare States in the Global South

This study traces the welfare regimes of Mauritius and South Africa from the early 20th century focusing on the historical circumstances that gave rise to the dominance of state-funded old-age pensions wi…

Pierre Rosanvallon,

The New Social Question

How social and intellectual changes undermine our justifications for the welfare state The welfare state has come under severe pressure internationally, partly for the well-known reasons of slowing econo…

Kelly Alexander

Truffles and Trash

On a fragile planet with spreading food insecurity, food waste is a political and ethical problem. Examining the collaborative, sometimes scrappy institutional and community efforts to recuperate and redi…