Written by one of the world's leading policy researchers, this book seeks to assess the threat posed to modern welfare states by globalization and demographic change. Bringing together empirical metho
In 1943, the Premier of the Canadian province of Quebec announced that schooling become both compulsory and free up to age of fourteen or until grade seven, inclusively. The following year the Canadia
Originally published in 1981 The Emergence of the Welfare State in Britain and Germany 1850-1950 is an edited collection on the history and future prospects of the modern welfare state. It attempts to
?This book offers an analysis of social security in Ireland from 1981 to 2016 - a period of immense economic and social change during which social provisions such as pensions and family benefits were
This book explores the changing dynamics of Indigenous policy in English-speaking settler states. Such policy is slowly moving away from a self-determination paradigm, conditioned by a post-war social
In this book, Susan Edmunds explores he relationship between modernist domestic fiction and the rise of the U.S. welfare state. This relationship, which began in the Progressive era, emerged as matern
This is a key new analysis of two major European issues: the impact of immigration and ethnic diversity on the nation state, and the declining capacity of the welfare state to maintain social equity.
A “provocative” account of great “intellectual significance,” illuminating the economic workings of the Third Reich—and the reasons ordinary Germans supported the Nazi s
As one of the pioneers and leading advocates of neoliberalism, Britain, and in particular England, has radically transformed its higher education system in recent decades. What was once a public good
Shows that the Argentine Welfare State was not a 1940s creation from scratch by Juan and Eva Peron, but rather an extension of a long tradition of charity and welfare activism on the part of local go
Shows that the Argentine Welfare State was not a 1940s creation from scratch by Juan and Eva Peron, but rather an extension of a long tradition of charity and welfare activism on the part of local go
