Product Description: This is a sharp analysis of the unique Nordic welfare system with urgent lessons for governments and societies across the globe. Welfare programs and institutions tend to be analyzed as instrumental arrangements, overlooking the fact that welfare programs are essentially expressions of moral conceptions and values...read more

Product Description: Modernizing the Korean Welfare State analyzes recent developments in social and public policy in South Korea. Its focus is the new approach to Korea's system of social protection, known as the productive welfare paradigm. This volume brings together an international group of scholars to examine the new paradigm and associated policy developments...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Examines the role of voluntary organizations in the welfare sector and their relations to public welfare schemes. The text also examines voluntary organizations and their relations to government and public policies.