Investigating welfare state change : the 'dependent variable problem' in comparative analysis
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Investigating welfare state change : the 'dependent variable problem' in comparative analysis
Edward Elgar, c2007
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The "dependent variable problem" in comparative analysis
大学図書館所蔵 全22件
  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
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注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-311) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Contemporary accounts of welfare state change have produced conflicting findings and incompatible theoretical explanations. To a large extent this is due to a 'dependent variable problem' within comparative research, whereby there is insufficient consideration of how to conceptualize, operationalize and measure change.
With contributions from leading international scholars, this important book presents a comprehensive examination of conventional indicators (such as social spending), available alternatives (including social rights and conditionality), as well as principal concepts of how to capture change (for example convergence and de-familization). By providing an in-depth discussion of the most salient aspects of the 'dependent variable problem', the editors aim to enable a more cumulative build-up of empirical evidence and contribute to constructive theoretical debates about the causes of welfare state change. The volume also offers valuable suggestions as to how the problem might be tackled within empirical cross-national analyses of modern welfare states.
The focus on the methodology of conceptualizing and measuring welfare state change in a comparative perspective gives this unique book widespread appeal amongst scholars and researchers of social policy and sociology, as well as students at both the advanced undergraduate and post-graduate level studying comparative social policy, research methods and welfare reform.
目次
Contents:
PART I: THE 'DEPENDENT VARIABLE PROBLEM' IN COMPARATIVE WELFARE STATE RESEARCH
1. Comparative Welfare State Analysis and the 'Dependent Variable Problem'
Jochen Clasen and Nico A. Siegel
2. More than Data Questions and Methodological Issues: Theoretical Conceptualization and the Dependent Variable 'Problem' in the Study of Welfare Reform
Christoffer Green-Pedersen
3. Too Narrow and Too Wide at Once: The 'Welfare State' as Dependent Variable in Policy Analysis
Giuliano Bonoli
PART II: MEASURING AND ANALYSING 'WELFARE EFFORTS': SOCIAL EXPENDITURE REVISITED
4. When (Only) Money Matters: The Pros and Cons of Expenditure Analysis
Nico A. Siegel
5. Social Expenditure Under Scrutiny: The Problems of Using Aggregate Spending Data for Assessing Welfare State Dynamics
Johan De Deken and Bernhard Kittel
6. Social Rights, Structural Needs and Social Expenditure: A Comparative Study of 18 OECD Countries 1960-2000
Olli Kangas and Joakim Palme
PART III: BEYOND SPENDING: WELFARE STATE GENEROSITY, SOCIAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS
7. Welfare State Generosity Across Space and Time
Lyle Scruggs
8. Levels and Levers of Conditionality: Measuring Change Within Welfare States
Jochen Clasen and Daniel Clegg
9. Exploring Diversity: Measuring Welfare State Change with Fuzzy-Set Methodology
Jon Kvist
PART IV: CAPTURING THE NATURE OF WELFARE STATE CHANGE
10. Convergence in European Welfare State Analysis: Convergence of What?
Julia S. O'Connor
11. (In)Dependence as Dependent Variable: Conceptualizing and Measuring 'De-familization'
Sigrid Leitner and Stephan Lessenich
12. Pension Reform: Beyond Path Dependency?
Sven Jochem
References
Index
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