Social Security Programs

A Cross-Cultural Comparative Perspective
Herausgeber: Dixon, John; Scheurell, Robert P.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume examines current trends in social security programs around the world. An international group of contributors provide (1) historical perspectives on the development of social security programs (looking at the U.S., Japan, and South Korea); (2) national overviews of programs as adapted to specific populations (in Indonesia, the Philippines, China, Zimbabwe, Yugoslavia, and Malaysia); and (3) specific program analyses (long term care in Britain, health care in Sweden, and industrial accident benefits as developed in Brazil). The discussions highlight the need to evaluate the impact of social security programs on the general population, as well as on specific population groups. This work will be of interest to scholars and policy-makers in social welfare and public policy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 561g
• ISBN-13: 9780313296543
• ISBN-10: 0313296545
• Artikelnr.: 25567882

Autorenporträt

JOHN DIXON is head of the Department of Social Sciences at Lingnan College in Hong Kong. ROBERT P. SCHEURELL is Associate Professor of Social Welfare at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction Social Security and the Ghosts that Haunt It
by John Dixon Historical Perspectives Social Security in the United States
by Max J. Skidmore Japanese Social Security: Its Past, Present, and Future
by Mitsuya Ichien Politics of Illiberal Capitalism: The State,
Industrialization and Social Security in South Korea by M Ramesh National
Overviews Rural Populations, Social Security, and Legal Pluralism in the
Central Moluccas of Eastern Indonesia by Franz von Benda-Beckmann and
Keebet von Benda-Beckmann An Examination of the Roles of the State,
Networks, and the Family in Philippines Social Security by Frank Hirtz
Social Security Reforms in China by Nelson W. S. Chow Social Security and
Redistribution: The Case of Zimbabwe by Edwin Kaseke Social Security in
Yugoslavia: Change or Continuity in the 1990s by Miroslav Ruzica Income
Programs for the Elderly in Malaysia: A Policy Process Analysis by Martin
Booth Tracy Program Analyses Financial Support for Long-Term Institutional
Care in Britain by Anne Corden The Right to Medical Health Care for the
Disabled in Sweden by Lotta Westerhall Industrial Accidents: Why should
They have Special Preferential Conditions by Celso Barroso Leite Index