Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- Acknowledgement
- Notes on contributors
- Introduction: social policy concepts and language
- one Social policy language in Denmark and Sweden
- two The changing language of social policy in Hungary and Polan
- three Languages of ‘social policy’ at ‘the EU level’
- four The OECD's search for a new social policy language: from welfare state to active society
- five The discursive power of international organisations: social policy language and concepts in the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund
- six Original and imitated or elusive and limited? Towards a genealogy of the welfare state idea in Britain
- seven Social policy concepts and language in France
- eight The language of social politics in Finland
- nine Germany: constructing the ‘win-win’ society
- ten Conceptual development of welfare and social policy in Japan
- eleven Transition to the ‘universal’ welfare state: the changing meaning of ‘welfare state’ in Korea
- twelve The Dutch ‘caring state’
- thirteen Panacea, problem or perish: social policy language in New Zealand
- fourteen Evolving social policy languages in Spain: what did democracy and EU membership change?
- fifteen Social policy language in the United States
- Conclusion: comparative perspectives on social policy language
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 March 2022
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- Acknowledgement
- Notes on contributors
- Introduction: social policy concepts and language
- one Social policy language in Denmark and Sweden
- two The changing language of social policy in Hungary and Polan
- three Languages of ‘social policy’ at ‘the EU level’
- four The OECD's search for a new social policy language: from welfare state to active society
- five The discursive power of international organisations: social policy language and concepts in the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund
- six Original and imitated or elusive and limited? Towards a genealogy of the welfare state idea in Britain
- seven Social policy concepts and language in France
- eight The language of social politics in Finland
- nine Germany: constructing the ‘win-win’ society
- ten Conceptual development of welfare and social policy in Japan
- eleven Transition to the ‘universal’ welfare state: the changing meaning of ‘welfare state’ in Korea
- twelve The Dutch ‘caring state’
- thirteen Panacea, problem or perish: social policy language in New Zealand
- fourteen Evolving social policy languages in Spain: what did democracy and EU membership change?
- fifteen Social policy language in the United States
- Conclusion: comparative perspectives on social policy language
- Index
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- Analysing Social Policy Concepts and LanguageComparative and Transnational Perspectives, pp. iii - ivPublisher: Bristol University PressPrint publication year: 2014