Poverty relief programs are shaped by politics. The particular design which social programs
take is to a large extent determined by the existing institutional constraints and politicians' …

This book combines the two most important typologies of capitalist diversity; Esping-
Andersen's welfare regime typology and Hall and Soskice's' Varieties of Capitalism'typology …

Wohlfahrtsverbände sind ein schillerndes Phänomen und bislang wohl stär ker im
bundesdeutschen Alltag durch" Essen auf Rädern" oder" Aufrufen zur Blutspende" als in der …

This history of the US Public Health Service's efforts to educate Americans about sex makes
clear why federally funded sex education has been haphazard, ad hoc, and often ineffectual …

These differences make the Nordic countries a fruitful living experiment, where diverging
forms of VET can be explored in quite similar societies. These two books investigate why the …

The five Nordic countries are often imagined as a unit, especially by the outside world. As
the final chapter in this volume discusses, external stereotypes of the Nordic region have …

This paper introduces the concept of “nation-state science” to describe the scientific work of
ethnoracial classification that made possible the ideal of the homogenous nation-state …

The Nordic model of economic development and management, which existed primarily
between 1945 and 1990, was an attempt to combine economic growth with democratic …

In the wake of the Cold War, the concept of Norden ('the North') comprising the countries of
Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Iceland has lost some of its attraction. Norden does …

A fundamental assumption behind cancer rehabilitation in many Western societies is that
cancer survivors can return to normal life by learning to deal with the consequences of their …