By Pete Alcock,Gary Craig
International Social Policy, second edition provides an available and established examine social coverage in an international comparative context. With distinctive factors of the historic, political and social context of coverage advancements throughout 13 international locations, the ebook bargains an authoritative photo of social coverage around the constructed global.
This moment version now deals an multiplied first bankruptcy on welfare research, thoroughly new chapters on China and South Korea, and updates all through that flag the most recent alterations and coverage developments. Exploring and evaluating numerous techniques to social coverage, every one bankruptcy appears to be like at welfare constitution, advancements and destiny customers in one kingdom. The ebook considers center parts of coverage provision along modern overseas issues, similar to globalization, demographic switch and monetary reform. particularly, it examines coverage within the following nations:
■ USA
■ Canada
■ Australia
■ New Zealand
■ UK
■ Sweden
■ Germany
■ Italy
■ Russia
■ Japan
■ South Korea
■ China
■ South Africa
Written and edited via top social coverage specialists in each one nation, this can be a useful contribution to the examine of world social coverage and an vital source for college kids, researchers and policy-makers.
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