International Encyclopedia of Social Policy 3-volume set

abortion; absolute and relative poverty; accountability and evaluation; acculturation; active welfare; Addams, Jane; adolescent pregnancies; adoption; adverse selection; Advocacy Coalition; affirmative action; affluence test; Africa; ageism; aging; agrarian parties; AIDS; alcohol policy; almhouses; altruism; Amsterdam Treaty; anarchism; anti-poverty policies; anti-racism; Apartheid; APEC; Argentina; ASEAN; Asia; Asian Development Bank; assistance benefits; associations; asylum seekers; Australia; Austria; autonomy; basic income; basic state pension; battered women/wives; begging; Belgium; benefit fraud; Beveridge Report; Beveridge, William; birth control; Bismarck, Otto von; body, the; bottom-up approach; Bourdieu, Pierre; Brazil; Bretton Woods System; Brookings Institution; bubble effect; Buddhism; budgeting; Bulgaria; bureaucracy; caisses; Cambodia; Canada; capability; capitalism; capitation fee; care work; carers; Caribbean; caring; caritas (catholic); casualisation; categorical benefits; Catholic social services; Central and Eastern Europe; centralization and decentralization; charities; child abuse; child benefits; child health services; child labour; child protection; child support services; childcare; children; children's allowances; children's rights; Chile; China; Christian Democracy; Christian Socialism; Christianity; citizenship; civil society; claimants' movement; class; claw-back; clientelism; client-provider interaction; cohabitation; Cohen, Wilbur; collective action; collectivism; commodification and decommodification; communism; communitarianism; community; community and neighborhood centers; community care; community work; community-based development; comparative analysis; competition; complementary social protection; comprehensive education; Comte, Auguste; Confucianism; conservatism; Conservative political parties; consumerism; contracting out; contributory benefits; convergence thesis; coopertive movement; co-payment; coporate welfare; core-periphery labour markets; corporatism; Costa Rica; credit unions; crime; criminal justice system; crisis of the welfare state; Croatia; Cuba; cultural capital; culture; culture of poverty; Czech Republic; data sets; daycare; defined benefit scheme; defined contribution scheme; deflation and reflation; deinstitutionalization; democracy; democratic socialism; demographic trends; demographics; Denmark; dependency; dependency culture; dependency ratio; dependents; deregulation; desert; deserving and undeserving poor; developing countries; development banks; developmental state; deviance; diagnosis-related groups; Diagnostic-Related Groups; diakonie (protestant); diaspora; difference; direct job creation; disability; disability benefits; disablism; discretionary benefits; discrimination; disposable income; disregards; division of labour; divorce; Dix, Dorothea; domestic labour; domestic violence; domiciliary care; downsizing; drug addiction and treatment; dual-earner and no-earner households; Durkheim, Emile; Dutch disease/Dutch miracle; early retirement; earnings; earnings inequality; earnings-related benefits; East Asian Miracle; Eastern Europe; economic liberalism; economics; education; educational inequalities; efficiency; egalitarianism; Egypt; elder abuse; elderly people; elites; elitism; emancipation; embourgeoisement; emotional labour; employability; employers; employers' associations; employment; employment law and rights; employment policies; employment rate; empowerment; enabling state; entitlement; environmentalism; equal opportunities; equal pay legislation; equality; equity; equivalence scales; Esping-Andersen, Gosta; ethnic groups; ethnicity; eugenics; European Community Household Panel; European social fund; European Union; European Union harmonisation; Eurostat; euthanasia; evaluation research; familialization; familism; family allowances; family law; family planning; family policy; family strategies; family wage; family, the; federalism; fee-for-services; feminism; feminization of poverty; fertility rate; financing; Finland; fiscal crisis; fiscal policy; fiscal welfare; flat rate; flat rate benefits; flexibility; food; food stamps; Fordism; Fortress Europe; foster care; fostering; Foucault, Michel; France; free-riders; friendly societies; full employment; functionalism; funded pension; GATS; gays and lesbians; gender; gender pay gap; gender regime; gender relations; gender roles; general practitioners; generational conflict; generational contract; genetics; Germany; Ghandi; Gini Coefficient; global budgeting; global social policy; globalization; governance; government; government statistics; Greece; Gross Domestic Product; gross income; Gross National Product; growth and affluence; Hayek, F.A.; headstart; health; health care inequalities; health care systems; hegemony; hidden unemployment; higher education; Hinduism; home ownership; homelessness; Hong Kong; Hoover Institute; Hopkins, Harry; household, the; housing; housing inequalities; housing policy; human capital; Human Development Index; human nature; Hungary; Iceland; ideology; illiteracy; immigration; incentives; income; income distribution; income inequality; income maintenance, principle of; income policies; independent living; India; indirect wages; individualism; indoor relief; industrial injury; industrialization; infant mortality rate; inflation; informal economy; informal sector/economy; informal work; in-kind provision; insider-outsider theory; institutional approach; insurance benefits; insurance programs; International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; International Labour Oragnization; International Monetary Fund; International Non-Governmental Organisations; International Social Security Association; in-work benefits; Iran; Iraq; Ireland; Islam; Israel; Italy; Japan; job broking; job centres; Johnson, Lyndon; Judaism; justice; Kakuwei, Tanaka; Ketteler, Wilhelm Emmanuel; Keynes, J. M.; Keynesianism; kindergarten; King, Martin Luther; kinship care; labour costs; labour market participation; labour market training; labour markets; labour movements; laissez-faire; Lathrop, Julia; Latin America; law; learning disabilities; legal aid; Leon XIII; Leon XIII; less ligibility; liberalism; liberty; life expectancy; life-course, the; lifetime employment; literacy rates; living standards; local government; logic of industrialism; lone parents; long-term care; low pay; Luxembourg; Luxembourg Income Study; male breadwinner model; managerialism; Mao; marginal tax rate; marginal utility; market forces; market, the; marketisation; marriage and cohabitation; Marshall, T.H; Marx, Karl; Marxism; maternity policy; means-testing; media, the; medicare and medicaid; mental health services; mental illness; meritocracy; Mexico; Middle East; middle way, the; migrant workers; migrants; Minimum Income Standards; minimum wage legislation; minorities; minseiin; mixed economy; Moller, Gustav; monetarism; moral hazard; moral panic; mortality rates; motherhood; multiculturalism; Multilateral Agreement on Investment; multinational and transnational corporations; mutual aid; mutualism; Myrdal, Gunner & Alva; National Association of Social Workers; nation-state; needs; negative income tax; Netherlands; new institutialism; New Left; new managerialism; New Right; New Zealand; Newburgh experiment; Nicaragua; Nigeria; Nkrumah, Kwame; Non-Governmental Organizations; non-profit sector; normalisation; North American Free Trade Association; North Korea; Norway; nurseries; Nyerere, Julius; obligation, principle of; occupational benefits; occupational segregation; occupational welfare; Offe, Claus; one-person household; opportunity costs; Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development; Orientalism and Occidentalism; outdoor relief; Pacific islands; Pakistan; Panel Study of Income Dynamics; panel surveys; panopticon; parental allowance; parental leave; parenting; Pareto, Vilfredo; Park, Chung-hee; part-time employment; paternalism; paternity and parental leave; path dependency; patriarchy; pay-as-you-go pensions; pension funds; pensions; personal accounts; personal social services; philanthropy; Pierson, Paul; Pius XII; pluralism; Poland; Polanyi, Karl; policy network; policy process, the; policy/program evaluation; political spectrum; politics; Poor Law; Portugal; positional goods; positive discrimination; post-colonialism; post-communism; post-Fordism; post-industrialisation; postmodernism; post-structuralism; poverty; poverty dynamics; poverty gap; poverty levels; poverty lines; poverty rate reduction; poverty trap, the; power; power resources model; preferences; pressure groups; private education and schools; private pension funds; privatisation; provident funds; psychology; public attitudes; public choice theory; public debt; public employment services; public goods; public health; public policy; public sector; public work projects; publicly mandated private expenditures; public-private partnerships; purchasing power parity; QUANGOS; quasi-markets; quota system; race; racial division of welfare, the; racism; Rathbone, Eleanor; rational choice theory; real wages; reciprocity; recognition; redistribution; refugees; refuges for women; regime general; regulation theory; rehabilitation; religion; replacement ratio; reproductive health services; reproductive rights; research; residential care; residual welfare states; responsibility; retirement; retrenchment; rights; risk society; risks; Roosevelt, F. D.; Rowntree, Seebohm; Russian Federation; safety net; Saudi Arabia; savings trap, the; Scharpf, Fritz; Schottland, Charles; Schumpeterian Workfare Post-National Regime; security; segregation; selective schools; selectivism; self-employment; self-interest; service delivery; service providers; service users; settlement houses; sex workers; sexism; sexual abuse; sexual division of labour, the; sexual health; sexuality; sheltered housing; Singapore; single parents; Slovenia; Smith, Adam; social and public expenditure; social assistance and social insurance, principles of; social capital; Social Chapter (Maastricht Treaty); social control; Social Darwinism; social democractic political parties; social democracy; social development; social dialogue; social division of welfare; social dumping; social economy; social entrepreunership; social exclusion and inclusion; social housing; social indicators; social justice; social market economy; social movements; social partners; social policy; social problems; social protection; social quality; social rights; social security system; social service; social solidarity; social wage; social welfare; social work; socialism; society; sociology; solidarity; South Africa; South America; South Korea; Soviet Union; Spain; special needs; Speenhamland system; stakeholding; state ownership; state, the; state-centred perspective, the; statistics; status; step families; stigma; stress; structural adjustment; subsidiarity; substance abuse; suffrage; surveillance; survival rate; sustainable development; Sweden; Switzerland; Taiwan; take-up; Tawney, R.H.; tax credits; tax expenditures; tax relief and allowances; tax system; taxation policies; technology; teenage pregnancy; third sector; third way, the; time; Titmuss, Richard; top down approach; Townsend Movement; trade unions; training; transitional economies; transparency; transport; Treaty of Rome; trilemma; tripartism; Turkey; typological approach; UK; underclass, the; underemployment; unemployment; unemployment benefits; unemployment levels; unemployment trap, the; UNICEF; United Nations; United Nations Development Programme; universal benefits; Universal Declaration of Human Rights; universalism; unpaid work; urban planning; USA; utilitarianism; utility; utopianism; values and attitudes; Veblen, Thorsten; victim compensation; Vietnam; vocational training; voluntarism; voluntary organisations; voluntary welfare; volunteers; vouchers; vulnerable groups; wage earning; wage-earner funds (Sweden); wages; Webb, Sidney and Beatrice; Weber, Max; Weberian sociology; welfare; welfare capitalism; welfare developmentalism; welfare dynamics; welfare mix/pluralism; welfare reform; welfare regimes; welfare rights; welfare society; welfare state, the; welfare theory; welfare tourism; Wells, Ida B.; Western Europe; widows and widowers; women's movement, the; work; work test; workfare; workhouse, the; working hours; work-life balance; workman's compensation; World Bank; World Health Organisation; World Trade Organization; Yat-Sen, Son; young people; Younghusband, Eileen.

Biography

Tony Fitzpatrick, Nick Manning, James Midgely, Huck-ju Kwon, Gillian Pascall