Welfare states and the future
By: edited by B. Vivekanandan and Nimmi Kurian
Contributors: Vivekanandan, B; Kurian, Nimmi
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Houndmills [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 391
Subjects: Welfare state; Welfare state -- Cross-cultural studies
Genres: Cross-cultural studies
Description: "The domain of the welfare state has greatly expanded to encompass a large number of developing countries. Social policy in the nascent welfare states has remained little explored and even less understood. This volume makes a valuable contribution to the literature on comparative social policy, with a number of country case-studies on Asia, Africa, Europe, North America and Latin America, and five contextual chapters. The contributions reveal that there is no single model that can be presented as a universal one, with temporal and spatial variations being the norm rather than the exception."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 364-371) and index