Product Description: Social policy scholars and practitioners have long employed concepts such as “welfare state” and “social security”—but where do these concepts come from and how has their meaning changed over time? What characterizes social policy language in different places, and how do some social concepts travel between them? Addressing such questions in a systematic manner, the contributors to this collection analyze the concepts and language used to describe contemporary social policy...read more

Product Description: Welfare state models have for decades been the gold standard of welfare state research. Beyond Welfare State Models escapes the straightjacket of conventional welfare state models and challenges the existing literature in two ways...read more

Product Description: What is the relationship between science and politics in the Nordic welfare states? What role have experts played in the development of the Nordic model? Who were the experts? Based on in-depth analysis of the historical facts of the welfare states in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden in the 20th century, this volume offers a multifaceted analysis of the interplay between science, experts, politicians, and institutions in policy areas, such as public health, unemployment insurance, child psychiatry, alcohol research, and social insurance...read more

Product Description: It has been part of the liberal tradition to decry censorship in all its forms, and to attempt to separate censorship from democratic forms of government. There has been as yet no real attempt to integrate censorship into political theory...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This Festschrift honoring the distinguished scholar Marketa Goetz-Stankiewicz (University of British Columbia), who was recently awarded the prestigious Boeschenstein Medal, provides new contributions on Central Europe written by renowned specialists...read more