The Oxford handbook of the welfare state
Francis G. Castles (Editor), Stephan Leibfried (Editor), Jane Lewis (Editor), Herbert Obinger (Author), Christopher Pierson (Editor)
This Handbook is the authoritative and definitive guide to the contemporary welfare state. In a volume consisting of nearly fifty newly-written chapters, a broad range of the world's leading scholars offer a comprehensive account of everything one needs to know about the modern welfare state. The Handbook is divided into eight sections. It opens with three chapters that evaluate the philosophical case for (and against) the welfare state. Surveys of the welfare state's history and of the approaches taken to its study are followed by four extended sections, running to some thirty-five chapters in all, which offer a comprehensive and in-depth survey of our current state of knowledge across the whole range of issues that the welfare state embraces
Print Book, English, 2010
Oxford University Press, Oxford, England, United Kingdom, 2010