Analysing social policy concepts and language

Where do concepts such as â¿¿welfare stateâ¿? and â¿¿social securityâ¿? come from and how has their meaning changed over time?. This edited collection, written by a cross-disciplinary group of leading social policy researchers, analyses the concepts and language used to make sense of contemporary social policy.

About the author

Daniel Béland holds the Canada Research Chair in Public Policy at the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Saskatchewan. He is a specialist of comparative social policy.

Klaus Petersen is Professor in Welfare State History and director of the Centre for Welfare State Research at the University of Southern Denmark. He is an expert on Nordic welfare state history.

Summary

Where do concepts such as "welfare state" and "social security" come from and how has their meaning changed over time?. This edited collection, written by a cross-disciplinary group of leading social policy researchers, analyses the concepts and language used to make sense of contemporary social policy.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Beland, Klaus Peterson
• Assisted by: Daniel B¿(c)land (Editor), Daniel B¿©land (Editor), Daniel Beland (Editor), Daniel (Sociology and Anthropology Beland (Editor), Daniel Béland (Editor), Klaus Petersen (Editor), Klaus Peterson (Editor)
• Publisher: Policy Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781447306443
• ISBN: 978-1-4473-0644-3
• No. of pages: 344
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 240 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 681 g
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education