Description: Written by a team of internationally respected experts, this book explores the conditions under which social policy--defined as the public pursuit of secure welfare--operates in the poorer regions of the world. Making an important contribution by breaking away from the traditional focus on Europe and North America, it develops a new conceptual framework for understanding different types of welfare regimes in a range of countries of Asia, Latin America and Africa.
Brief description: Ian Gough is Professor of Social Policy at the University of Bath and Editor of the Journal of European Social Policy.
Review Quotes: "...the book is serious in its intent, provocative in its theoretical discussion and wide ranging in its mult-perspectives. It should not only appeal to academics interested in classification but to those who are concerned with poverty and the problems of promoting human welfare in the developing countries. Additionally, it would make a thought-provoking text for a course on comparative social policy for graduate students in both the developed and developing worlds." - Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, Kwong-leung Tang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong