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Author Aspalter, Christian

Title The Routledge International Handbook to Welfare State Systems
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (531 pages)
Series Routledge International Handbooks
Routledge international handbooks.
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of tables and figures; Notes on contributors; Foreword; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Ten worlds of welfare capitalism: an ideal-typical perspective; 3 Future welfare: an uneven race to the top and/or a polarized world?; 4 The Australian welfare state system: with special reference to welfare conditionality -- the case of the income management system; 5 The American welfare state system: with special reference to asset- and means-tested social assistance programs; 6 The Cuban welfare state system: with special reference to universalism
7 The Mexican welfare state system: with special reference to conditional cash transfer systems8 The Chilean welfare state system: with special reference to social security privatization; 9 The Brazilian welfare state system: with special reference to the outcomes and performance of the welfare state system; 10 The Nigerian welfare state system: with special reference to the challenges of developing a social security system; 11 The UK welfare state system: with special reference to the mental health care system
12 The Swedish welfare state system: with special reference to inequality and the redistribution paradox13 The French welfare state system: with special reference to youth unemployment; 14 The Belgian welfare state system: with special reference to "targeting within universalism"; 15 The German welfare state system: with special reference to the old-age pension system; 16 The Austrian welfare state system: with special reference to the long-term care system; 17 The Swiss welfare state system: with special reference to education policy
18 The Russian welfare state system: with special reference to regional inequality 29119 The Turkish welfare state system: with special reference to human capital development; 20 The Israeli welfare state system: with special reference to social inclusion; 21 The Indian welfare state system: with special reference to social policy and the burden of disease; 22 The Indonesian welfare state system: with special reference to social security extension in the development context; 23 The Singaporean welfare state system: with special reference to public housing and the Central Provident Fund
24 The Chinese welfare state system: with special reference to aging of society and social policy25 The Hong Kong welfare state system: with special reference to new initiatives in social assistance provision; 26 The Taiwanese welfare state system: with special reference to its universal health insurance system; 27 The South Korean welfare state system: with special reference to the future of social insurance systems; 28 The Japanese welfare state system: with special reference to financing health care, pensions and long-term care in a super-aged society
Notes 29 Lessons from around the world: by way of conclusion
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Subject Welfare state.
Public welfare.
Social policy.
Public Policy
welfare services.
public policy.
Public welfare
Social policy
Welfare state
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781317041085
1317041089