Comparing the social policy experience of Britain and Taiwan

著者

• Finer, Catherine Jones

書誌事項

Comparing the social policy experience of Britain and Taiwan

edited by Catherine Jones Finer

Ashgate, c2001

注記

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This is a collection of papers on the study of comparative social policy, with reference to Britain and Tawian. Both the UK and Taiwan can be said to be liberal market democracies, and each is an offshore island on the fringe of perceived contrasting continental notions of systems and governance. These similarities are useful for the purpose of comparing social policy in the two countries. However the differences between the two countries are also needed in a comparative study such as this. This book presents an overview of the state in which each country presently exist, for example Britain is said to be a "welfare state", where Taiwan is not but is considering its position and the potential for a "welfare state". There is then a look to the future of each country and their prospective social policies, looking at : pensions, health care, family and community care, and ideas on welfare and growth.

目次

• Overview of trends in social policy and social services delivery: the development of the British welfare state
• to be or not to be a Taiwanese welfare state? - lessons from recent experience
• modernizing social welfare services? - change and continuity in social care and social welfare in Britain
• the myth and reality of privatizing social welfare services - a case study of Taipei city. Pensions: is it safe enough? - the planning of national pensions insurance in Taiwan
• thinking the unthinkable? - pensions policy prospects in Britain. Health care: financing health care for middle- to low-income households in Taiwan
• current themes and issues in Britain's National Health Service. Family and community care and control: a comprehensive policy for the single-parent family
• family support services - some recent developments
• the social construction of ageing - elderly women in Taiwan
• enhancing independence in old age
• community care for the elderly people in Taiwan - illustion, vision or reality?
• crime, punishment and community in England and Wales. East-West ideas on welfare and growth: looking East, looking West - trends in Orientalism and occidentalism amongst social scientists
• elite political-cultural projects, economic growth and the achievement of social welfare in East Africa.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA54015297
• ISBN:
  • 0754614522
• LCCN: 00109867
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Aldershot
• ページ数/冊数: xiv, 338 p.
• 大きさ: 23 cm