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1 online resource |
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Children's well-being. Indicators and research ; 2 |
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Children's well-being: indicators and research series ; 2.
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Children, gender, and families in Mediterranean welfare states: an introduction / John Gal and Mimi Ajzenstadt -- Investing in children?: changes in policies concerning children and families in European countries / Thomas Olk -- Understanding gender economic inequality across welfare regimes / Hadas Mandel -- Neighborhoods and families / James R. McDonell -- Exploring the extended family of Mediterranean welfare states, or, did Beveridge and Bismarck take a Mediterranean cruise together? / John Gal -- Children, gender and families in the Italian welfare state / Valeria Fargion -- The erosion of "familism" in the Spanish welfare state: childcare policy since 1975 / Celia Valiente -- Children, families and women in the Israeli state: 1880s-2008 / Mimi Ajzenstadt -- Gender, family and children at the crossroads of social policy reform in Turkey: alternating between familialism and individualism / Azer Kılıç -- Gender, children and families in the Greek welfare state / Theano Kallinikaki -- Is there a "Mediterranean welfare state"?: a country-level analysis / Anat Guy |
| Summary |
The study of welfare states and social policy has enjoyed growing popularity in the last three decades. This field has been characterized by a growing level of theorization, richer case study analyses, inclusion of additional sources of welfare provision (non-profit, market-based, informal, family), and fields of study (globalization, gender, ethnicity, immigration, children), and increasingly complex, accurate and up-to-date cross-national comparative analyses. One of the subjects that have been the focus of much interest has been that of families, women and children - their social well being |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Welfare state -- Mediterranean Region
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Family policy -- Mediterranean Region
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Services.
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Family policy -- Greece.
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Family policy -- Italy.
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Family policy -- Mediterranean Region.
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Family policy -- Spain.
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Family policy -- Turkey.
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Welfare state -- Greece.
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Welfare state -- Italy.
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Welfare state -- Mediterranean Region.
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Welfare state -- Spain.
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Welfare state -- Turkey.
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Social Science.
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Welfare state -- Mediterranean Region.
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Family policy -- Mediterranean Region.
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Family policy
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Welfare state
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Mediterranean Region
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| Genre/Form |
Academic theses.
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Academic theses.
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Thèses et écrits académiques.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ajzenstadt, Mimi, 1956-
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Gal, John.
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| LC no. |
2010925146 |
| ISBN |
9789048188420 |
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9048188423 |
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9789048188413 |
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9048188415 |
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9786612927218 |
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6612927216 |
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