This paper surveys the debate regarding Esping-Andersen's typology of welfare states and
reviews the modified or alternative typologies ensuing from this debate. We confine …

The seminal work by Esping-Andersen (1990) has transformed and inspired social policy
research over the past two decades. Various contributions have confirmed his typology …

This book builds an essential bridge between climate change and social policy. Combining
ethics and human need theory with political economy and climate science, it offers a long …

In the third edition of his classic work, revised extensively and updated to include recent
developments on the international scene, Jack Donnelly explains and defends a richly …

The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they
are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by …

Cross-national trends in paid and unpaid work time over the last 40 years reveal a slow and
incomplete convergence of women's and men's work patterns. A simplistic extrapolation …

Peter Lindert inquires as to whether social policies that redistribute income impose
constraints on economic growth. Although taxes and transfers have been debated for …

Identities, Boundaries and Social Ties offers a distinctive, coherent account of social
processes and individuals' connections to their larger social and political worlds. It is novel …

Over the last decade, students of the welfare state have produced an impressive body of
research on retrenchment, the dominant thrust of which is that remarkably few welfare states …

Human Rights and Social Work: Towards Rights-Based Practice helps students and
practitioners understand how human rights concepts underpin the social work profession …