First published in 1997, this volume examines why, while mature
welfare states are being trimmed and privatised, new social welfare
arrangement are implemented in formerly communist and newly
industrialised countries. The papers in this volume bring together
these different worlds, but also different academic approaches.
Micro-economic analyses of social insurance and welfare systems are
joined with broader political descriptions of social policy in such
disparate regions as Scandinavia, China, Italy, Poland and South
Africa. They give the reader a sense of the fundamental problem of
finding a social welfare system that fits specific economic and
cultural conditions. This volume is the second in a series on
international studies of issues in social security. The series is
initiated by the Foundation for International Studies on Social
Security (FISS). One of its aims is to confront different academic
approaches with each other, and with public policy perspectives.
Another is to give analytic reports of cross-nationally different
approaches to the design and reform of welfare state programs. The
present and next volume form a twin set in the sense that they both
are based on selections from papers presented at seminars held by
FISS in 1994-1996.
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