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Investigating Welfare State Change - The 'Dependent Variable Problem' in Comparative Analysis (Paperback)
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Investigating Welfare State Change - The 'Dependent Variable Problem' in Comparative Analysis (Paperback)
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Contemporary accounts of welfare state change have produced
conflicting findings and incompatible theoretical explanations. To
a large extent this is due to a 'dependent variable problem' within
comparative research, whereby there is insufficient consideration
of how to conceptualize, operationalize and measure change. With
contributions from leading international scholars, this important
book presents a comprehensive examination of conventional
indicators (such as social spending), available alternatives
(including social rights and conditionality), as well as principal
concepts of how to capture change (for example convergence and
de-familization). By providing an in-depth discussion of the most
salient aspects of the 'dependent variable problem', the editors
aim to enable a more cumulative build-up of empirical evidence and
contribute to constructive theoretical debates about the causes of
welfare state change. The volume also offers valuable suggestions
as to how the problem might be tackled within empirical
cross-national analyses of modern welfare states. The focus on the
methodology of conceptualizing and measuring welfare state change
in a comparative perspective gives this unique book widespread
appeal amongst scholars and researchers of social policy and
sociology, as well as students at both the advanced undergraduate
and post-graduate level studying comparative social policy,
research methods and welfare reform.
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