The Routledge International Handbook to Welfare State System Towards Global Social Policy Science

In light of, and being complementary to, the recently published book Ten Worlds of Welfare Capitalism, Aspalter and his authors provide a strong in-depth analysis of 32 welfare state systems across the entire world, also within the framework of the descriptive Ten Worlds Theory and the normative Developmental Social Policy Theory. His collected expert chapters encompass Australia, the United States, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Europe, North Asia, South Asia and East Asia, literally all continents and most corners of the world. Despite the great number of welfare regimes covered, welfare state systems across the nations presented are fully and deeply analyzed in all their complexities and diversities, covering a most-extensive range of social policy sub-fields, topics and issues. With this new and extended Second Edition of this Handbook, Aspalter and his colleagues have reached a new milestone in light of comparative social policy studies.

Wan-I Lin
Minister without Portfolio, Executive Yuan (Taiwan), Emeritus Professor, Department of Social Work, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan