Contents:
Volume One: Welfare States and Societies in the Making
Part One

1. Asa Briggs (1984), 'The Welfare State in Historical Perspective', in (1985) The Collected Essays of Asa Briggs, Vol. 2, Brighton: The Harvester Press, pp. 177-211.
2. Christopher Pierson (1991), 'Origins and Development of the Welfare State 1880 Beyond the Welfare State? The New Political Economy of Welfare, Cambridge: Polity Press, pp. 102-140.
3. Jeremy Bentham (1789), An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, New York: Hafner, 1948, pp. 125 - 154.
4. Tom Paine (1791), 'Of Society and Civilization', Rights of Man, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1969, pp. 357
5. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (1848), 'Socialist and Communist Literature', Manifesto of the Communist Party, Edinburgh: Socialist Labour Press, 1909, pp. 429
6. John Stuart Mill (1859) 'Of the Limits of Society over the Individual', On Liberty, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991, pp. 83-101.
7. De Toqueville, 'Government of the Democracy in America', Democracy in America, Everyman Edition, pp. 199-202.
8. De Toqueville, 'What are the Real Advantages which American Society Derives from a Democratic Government', Democracy in America, Everyman Edition, pp. 237-253.
9. Hubert Kiesewetter (1991), 'Competition for Wealth and Power: The Growing Rivalry between Industrial Britain and Industrial Germany 1815 Journal or European Economic History, 20: 2, pp. 271-299.
10. Alan Kidd (1999), 'The State and Pauperism' in State, Society and the Poor in Nineteenth-Century England, Basingstoke: Macmillan, pp. 8-64.
11. Charles Dickens, Hard Times, (Ch 4)
12. William Booth (1976), 'Why Darkest England?' in P Keating (ed), Into Unknown England, Fontana (pp: 141-158).
Part Two
13. Helen Bosanquet (1973), 'The Poor Law and Local Government' in Social Work in London 1869-1912, Harvester Press. (Ch XIII, pp: 266-300.)
14. S and B Webb (1911), 'The Moral Factor', in The Prevention of Destitution, Longman Green (Ch X, pp: 293
15. J Tampke (1981), 'Bismark's Social Legislation: A Genuine Breakthrough?' in W J Mommsen (Ed), The Emergence of the Welfare State in Britain and Germany 1850-1950, Croom Helm (Ch 4, pp: 71-83)
16. E P Hennock (1981), 'The Origins of British National Insurance and the German Precedent 1880 The Emergence of the Welfare State in Britain and Germany 1850-1950, Croom Helm (Ch 5, pp: 84)
17. Eve Rosenhaft (1994), 'The historical development of German social policy' in J Clasen and R Freeman (eds.), Social Policy in Germany, Harvester Wheatsheaf (Ch 1: pp: 21-40)
18. Werner Usdorf (1998), 'Global Topographies: The Spiritual, the Social and the Geographical in the Missionary Movement from the West', Social Policy and Administration, Vol. 32, No. 5, pp: 591-604.
19. Anna S Orloff (1988), 'The Political Origins of America's Belated Welfare State' in Weir, Orloff and Skocpol, (eds.), The politics of Social Policy in the United States, Princeton University Press (CH. 1, pp: 37)
20. Michael Rose (2001), The secular faith of the social settlements 'If Christ came to Chicago' in Ruth Gilchrist and Tony Jeffs (eds.), Settlements, Social Change and Community Action, Jessica Kingsley (pp: 18)
21. Political and Economic Planning (1937), Report on the British Social Services, (Summary and Conclusions, pp: 9)
22. Mutsuko Takahashi (1997), The Emergence of Welfare Society in Japan, Avebury (Ch. 2, Welfare policy in Japan before 1945, pp: 33)
23. Richard M Titmuss (1957), 'War and social Policy' in Essays on 'The Welfare State', George Allen and Unwin, (CH. 4, pp: 75)
24. C Barnett (1986), 'The Dream of New Jerusalem' in Audit of War, Macmillan (Ch 1, pp: 11)
25. William Temple (1942), 'Appendix', Christianity and Social Order, Penguin, (pp: 75-90.)
26. William Beveridge, (1942) Cm. 6404, Report on Social Insurance and Allied Services, HMSO (Part I), pp: 5-20.

Volume Two: The Zenith of Western Welfare State Systems

27. Gunnar Myrdal (1972), 'The place of values in social policy', Journal of Social Policy, (Vol. 1. No. 1, pp: 1-14)
28. F A Hayek (1973), 'The Danger of Unlimited Government'. In Economic Freedom and Representative Government, (4th Wincott Memorial Lecture) Occasional Paper 39, IEA, London (Ch II, pp: 9)
29. Rodney Lowe (1990), 'The Second World War, Consensus and the Foundation of the Welfare State, Twentieth Century British History, (Vol. 1, No 2, pp: 152)
30. Alan Peacock (1991), 'Welfare Philosophies and Welfare Finance' in T Wilson and D Wilson, The State and Social Welfare, Longman (pp: 37)
31. R M Titmuss (1987), 'Social Welfare and the Art of Giving' in B Abel Smith and K Titmuss (Eds.), The Philosophy of Welfare, Allen and Unwin (pp: 113)
32. Jose Harris (1991), 'Enterprise and the Welfare State', in Gourvish and O'Day (Eds.), Britain since 1945, Macmillan (pp: 39)
33. Pierre Laroque (1969), 'Social Security in France' in S. Jenkins (Ed.), Social Security in International Perspective, Columbia University Press, pp. 171-189.
34. Henning Fris (1969), 'Issues in Social Security in Denmark', in S. Jenkins (Ed.), Social Security in International Perspective, Columbia University Press. (Ch. 5), pp. 129-150.
35. Peter Baldwin (1990), 'The Failure of the Solidaristic Welfare State', in The Politics of Social Solidarity, Cambridge University Press (pp: 158)
36. Martin Seelib-Kaise (1995), 'The Development of Social Assistance and Unemployment Insurance in Germany and Japan', Social Policy and Administration, (Vol. 29, No. 3, pp: 269)
37. R Titmuss (1987), 'The Social Division of Welfare', in B Abel Smith and K Titmuss (Eds.), The Philosophy of Welfare, Allen and Unwin (pp: 39)
38. Arthur Seldon (1964), 'Welfare by Choice' in Rebirth of Britain, Pan, (Ch. 11, pp: 153)
39. Z Ferge (1979), 'The Emergence of Social Policy' in A Society in the Making: Hungarian Social and Societal Policy, Penguin, (pp: 50)
40. W G Runciman (1966), 'Reform and its Limits' in Relative Deprivation and Social Justice, Routledge and Kegan Paul, (Ch. XIV, pp: 285)
41. Brian Abel-Smith (1958), 'Whose Welfare State?' in N Mackenzie (Ed.), Conviction, Macgibbon and Kee, (pp: 55)
42. Peter Townsend (1962), 'The Meaning of Poverty', British Journal of Sociology (Vol. 13, pp: 212)
43. Jack Wiseman (1991), 'The Welfare State: A Public Choice Perspective' in Thomas Wilson and Dorothy Wilson (Eds.), The State and Social Welfare, Longman, (Ch. 3, pp: 55)
44. Frances Fox Piven and R Cloward (1971), 'The Welfare Explosion of the 1960s' in Regulating the Poor, Vintage, (pp: 183)
45. Theda Skocpol (1988), 'The Limits of the New Deal System and the Roots of Contemporary Welfare Dilemmas', in Weir, Orloff and Skocpol, (eds.), The politics of Social Policy in the United States, Princeton University Press (CH. 8, pp: 293)
46. Claus Offë (1984), 'Social policy and the theory of the state' in J Keane (Ed.), Contradictions of the Welfare State, Hutchinson, (Ch. 3, pp: 88)

Volume Three: Crisis of the Welfare States

47. Catherine J Jones (1980), 'Dismantling the British Welfare State The Hong Kong Journal of Social Work, (Vol. XIV, No. 2, pp: 28)
48. Digby Anderson (1981) 'Breaking the Spell of the Welfare State' in Digby Anderson, June Lait and David Marsland, Breaking the Spell of the Welfare State, Social Affairs Unit (Ch 2: pp: 11)
49. Peter Townsend, Margaret Whitehead, and Nick Davidson, (1992), 'Introduction to Inequalities in Health', Inequalities in Health, Penguin, pp: 1-27.
50. Jennifer Somerville, (1992), 'The New Right and family politics', Economy and Society, Vol. 21, No. 2, pp: 93-128.
51. Desmond S King, (1987), 'The state and the social structures of welfare in advanced industrial democracies', Theory ad Society, Vol. 16, pp: 841-868.
52. Desmond S King, (1988), 'New Right Ideology, Welfare State Form, and Citizenship: A Comment on Conservative Capitalism, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 30, pp: 793-799.
53. Ken Judge (1987), 'The British Welfare State in Transition', in Friedmann, R R, Gilbert, N and Sherer, M (Eds.) (1987), Modern Welfare States: A Comparative View of Trends and Prospects, Brighton, Wheatsheaf. pp: 1-43.
54. Nathan Glazer (1988), 'The American Welfare State: Incomplete or Different?' in The Limits of Social Policy, Harvard University Press (Ch. 10, pp: 168)
55. Christopher Pierson, (1991), 'Beyond the Welfare State?' and 'Defending the Welfare State', in Pierson, C, Beyond the Welfare State? The New political Economy of Welfare, Cambridge, Polity Press. pp: 179-222.
56. Mary McIntosh, (1981), 'Feminism and Social Policy', Critical Social Policy, Vol. 1, pp: 32-42.
57. Charles Murray, (1982), 'The Two Wars against Poverty', The Public Interest, No. 69, pp: 4-16.
58. Rudolf Klein (1995), 'Priorities and rationing: pragmatism or principles?', BMJ, Vol. 311: pp: 761-762 (Editorial).
59. Gerald F Gauss (1998), 'Why All Welfare States (Including Laissez-faire Ones) Are Unreasonable', Social Philosophy and Policy, Vol. 15, No: 2.
60. Commission on Social Justice (1994), 'What is Social Justice' in Social Justice: Strategies for National Renewal, Vintage (Introduction, pp: 17)
61. M Grazia Rossilli (1999), 'The European Union's policy on the equality of women', Feminist Studies, Spring.
62. Paul Pierson (1996), 'The New Politics of The Welfare State', World Politics, (Vol. 48), pp. 143-179.
63. Zsuzsa Ferge (1997), 'The Changed welfare Paradigm: The Individualization of the Social', Social Policy and Administration, Vol. 31, No. 1, pp: 20-44.
64. Schulz B H (2000), 'Globalisation, unification and the German Welfare State', International Social Science Journal, Vol. 163: pp: 39-50.
65. George, V, Stathopoulos, P and Garcés, J (1999), 'Squaring the welfare circle and government ideology: Greece and Spain in the 1990s', International Social Security Review, Vol. 52, No. 4, pp: 47-67.
66. Powell, M and Hewitt, M (1998), 'The End of the Welfare State?', Social Policy and Administration, Vol. 32, No. 1, pp: 1-13.

Volume Four: Welfare Futures

67. Stephan Leibfried (2000), 'National Welfare States, European Integration and Globalization: A perspective for the Next Century', Social Policy and Administration, (Vol. 34, No. 1, pp: 22)
68. Robert D Putnam, 'Bowling Alone: America's declining social capital', Journal of Democracy, (Vol. 6(1), pp: 65-78).
69. Peter Baldwin (1996), 'Can we Define a European Welfare State Model?' in Bent Greve (Ed), Comparative Welfare Systems: The Scandinavian Model in a Period of Change, Macmillan.
70. John Veit-Wilson (2000), 'States of Welfare: A Conceptual Challenge', Social Policy and Administration, (Vol. 34, No. 1, pp: 1)
71. Greg Martin (2001), 'Social movements, welfare and social policy: a critical analysis', Critical Social Policy, (Vol. 21(3), pp: 361)
72. Robert E Goodin, Bruce Headey, Ruud Muffels and Henk-Jan Dirven (1999), The Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. Summarised in Pierson, C and Castles, D G (2000), The Welfare State Reader, Cambridge, Polity Press. pp: 170-189.
73. Julia Twigg (2002), 'The Body in Social Policy: Mapping a Territory', Journal of Social Policy, (Vol. 31, Part 3, pp: 421
74. Paul Hirst (1999), 'Associationist Welfare: a reply to Marc Stears', Economy and Society, (Vol. 28, No. 4, pp: 590)
75. Fiona Williams (1999), 'Good-enough Principles for Welfare', Journal of Social Policy, (Vol. 28, Part 4, pp: 667
76. Peter Taylor-Gooby (1994), 'Postmodernism and Social Policy: A Great Leap Backwards', Journal of Social Policy, (Vol. 23, Part 3, pp: 385)
77. Xinping Guan (2001), 'Globalization, Inequality and Social Policy: China on the Threshold of Entry into the World Trade Organization', Social Policy and Administration, (Vol. 35, Issue 3, pp: 242)
78. David Stoez (2002), 'The American Welfare State at Twilight', Journal of Social Policy, (Vol. 31, Part 3, pp: 487)
79. Claire Ungerson (2000), 'Thinking about the Production and Consumption of Long-term Care in Britain: Does Gender Still Matter?', Journal of Social Policy, (Vol. 29, Part 4, pp: 623)
80. John Barry and Brian Doherty (2002), 'The Greens and Social Policy: Movements, Politics, Practice?' in Michael Cahill and Tony Fitzpatrick (Eds.), Environmental Issues and Social Welfare, Blackwell. (Ch. 9, pp: 119)
81. Tamsin Wilson (1995), 'Subject to Control: Lesbians and the State', in Lesbian Studies: Setting an Agenda, Routledge (Ch. 9, pp: 181)
82. Anthony Giddens (2002), 'What Kind of Society Should Britain Become?', in Where Now for New Labour, Polity (Ch. 4, pp: 38)
83. Stephen Rathgeb Smith and Daniel J Evans (2001), 'Privatization, Devolution and the Welfare State: Rethinking the Prevailing Wisdom' (forthcoming) in Bo Rothstein and Sven Steinmo, Restructuring Politics: Institutional Challenges of Modern Welfare States.
84. Peter Taylor-Gooby (2001), 'Sustaining state welfare in hard times: who will foot the bill?', Journal of European Social Policy, (Vol. 11(2), pp: 133)
85. Peng, I (2000), 'A Fresh Look at the Japanese Welfare State', Social Policy and Administration, Vol. 34, No. 1, pp: 87-114.
86. Tony Fitzpatrick (2002), 'In Search of a Welfare Democracy', Social Policy and Society, (Vol. 1, Part 1, pp: 11)
87. Rudolf Klein and Anne-Marie Rafferty (1999), 'Rorschach Politics: Tony Blair and the Third Way', The American Prospect, (Vol. 10, Issue 45, July)
88. Nicholas Deakin (2002), 'Public-Private Partnerships, Public Management Review, Vol. 4, Issue, 2, pp: 133
89. Christopher Pierson (1998), 'Contemporary Challenges to Welfare State Development', Political Studies, (Vol. XLVI, pp: 777-794)

This title was first published in 2001. This is a seminal collection. For the first time, leading scholars and practitioners from Taiwan join with counterparts from Britain to offer comparable commentary on key social policy and social service issues affecting their respective countries. The result is as thought-provoking as it is informative. The approach adopted - of encouraging writers to speak for themselves virtually without restriction - could well provide a model in itself for encouraging and easing contributions from previously unpresented countries into the mainstream of comparative cross-national social policy debate. Concluding papers, on the prospects for East-West comparative social policy in general, confirm the significance of this collection by emphasizing its contribution to broader, social and political debates.

This title was first published in 2003.The People's Republic of China (PRC) is a timely example of social policy reform in a socialist market economy. This important and topical edited collection brings together leading Chinese and Western experts to introduce and integrate policy issues of the PRC into the mainstream of cross-national social policy debate. Drawing upon comparativist expertise in relevant aspects of social policy, the book explores the ways in which the PRC has or has not taken lessons from abroad in key social policy respects and illustrates policy-relevant relations between Chinese and Western perspectives. The contributors identify those aspects of China's recent social policy reforms that seem the most and least likely to appeal to Western societies. The collection therefore represents a substantial advance in two-way, East-West lesson learning in social and public policy.

This title was first published in 2001. This is a seminal collection. For the first time, leading scholars and practitioners from Taiwan join with counterparts from Britain to offer comparable commentary on key social policy and social service issues affecting their respective countries. The result is as thought-provoking as it is informative. The approach adopted - of encouraging writers to speak for themselves virtually without restriction - could well provide a model in itself for encouraging and easing contributions from previously unpresented countries into the mainstream of comparative cross-national social policy debate. Concluding papers, on the prospects for East-West comparative social policy in general, confirm the significance of this collection by emphasizing its contribution to broader, social and political debates.

This title was first published in 2003.The People's Republic of China (PRC) is a timely example of social policy reform in a socialist market economy. This important and topical edited collection brings together leading Chinese and Western experts to introduce and integrate policy issues of the PRC into the mainstream of cross-national social policy debate. Drawing upon comparativist expertise in relevant aspects of social policy, the book explores the ways in which the PRC has or has not taken lessons from abroad in key social policy respects and illustrates policy-relevant relations between Chinese and Western perspectives. The contributors identify those aspects of China's recent social policy reforms that seem the most and least likely to appeal to Western societies. The collection therefore represents a substantial advance in two-way, East-West lesson learning in social and public policy.