Social Administration & Welfare

By examining how different welfare regimes influence public support for welfare policy, this book explores the institutional settings of different regimes and how each produces its own support. The result is an important work for all studying and working in the fields of public policy and social wel..

This study generates new understandings of how institutionalization of organizations comes about and contributes fresh insight to the area of social welfare policies...

This book brings into focus social patterns and policies of the Southern Rim of Europe and asks if there is a special Southern social pattern, comparable to the Nordic, Continental, and Anglo-Saxon Welfare regimes. This question has a new political and socio-economic relevance with the current debt ..

Originally published in 1994 The Politics of the Welfare State looks at how the privatization and marketization of education, health and welfare services in the past decade have produced a concept of welfare that is markedly different from that envisaged when the welfare state was initially created...

This book offers a state-of-the-art discussion of the political issues surrounding unemployment in Europe. Marco Giugni has produced a number of genuinely cross-national chapters and specific national cases resulting from his three year cross-national comparative research project. This expert resear..

This book offers a state-of-the-art discussion of the political issues surrounding unemployment in Europe. Marco Giugni has produced a number of genuinely cross-national chapters and specific national cases resulting from his three year cross-national comparative research project. This expert resear..

Originally published in 1985 The Role of Voluntary Organisations in Social Welfare considers the voluntary sector as a provider of social welfare. The book asks what should the role of this voluntary sector be, and what should its relationship be with the government sector?..

Chris Grover critically reflects on the introduction of the Social Fund and its operation in the past two decades, engaging with the argument that was made in the 1980s that relieving need by way of loan was new in social security policy. Using primary data hitherto ignored by social policy research..

Chris Grover critically reflects on the introduction of the Social Fund and its operation in the past two decades, engaging with the argument that was made in the 1980s that relieving need by way of loan was new in social security policy. Using primary data hitherto ignored by social policy research..

Following the death of Franco, Spain underwent a transition to democracy in the mid-1970s. Although a rapid process of modernization occurred, the Spanish welfare state was seen, until fairly recently, as relatively underdeveloped. Split into three sections, this book addresses the consolidation pat..

This book provides a comprehensive examination of the welfare-to-work initiatives that were undertaken just prior to and following the major reform of United States welfare legislation in 1996. It will familiarize you with the intent of those reforms and show you how those interventions have been im..

This book provides a comprehensive examination of the welfare-to-work initiatives that were undertaken just prior to and following the major reform of United States welfare legislation in 1996. It will familiarize you with the intent of those reforms and show you how those interventions have been im..