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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Comparative Approach to Social Problems | |
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| U.S. Social Problems in Comparative Perspective | |
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| The European Social Model | |
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| The Swedish Welfare State | |
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| How Canada Stole the American Dream | |
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| Problems of Inequality | |
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| Poverty | |
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| Poverty, Work, and Policy: The United States in Comparative Perspective | |
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| How Other Countries Fight the War on Poverty | |
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| Income and Wealth Inequality | |
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| Income and Wealth Inequality, Americans for Democratic Action | |
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| Inequality Here and There | |
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| Gender | |
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| Europe Crawls Ahead | |
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| Gender Equality in Sweden, Swedish Institute | |
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| Sexual Orientation | |
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| Social Shift Opens Door to Gay Marriage Plan | |
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| Gay Rights and European Citizenship | |
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| Age | |
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| As Good As It Gets: What Country Takes the Best Care of Its Older Citizens? | |
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| We Should Rejoice in an Ageing Society, So Long as We Plan Properly for It | |
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| We're Not Finnished with You Yet | |
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| Institutional Problems | |
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| Families | |
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| Atlantic Passages: How Europe Supports Working Parents and Their Children | |
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| The Father Generation | |
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| Teen Pregnancy: Trends and Lessons Learned | |
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| Schools | |
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| Early Childhood Education and Care in Advanced Industrialized Countries | |
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| Learning from South Korean Schools | |
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| A World Transformed: How Other Countries Are Preparing Students for the Interconnected World of the 21st Century | |
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| Work | |
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| The Vanishing American Vacation | |
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| A New WPA? | |
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| Health Care and Delivery | |
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| International Health Systems, Physicians for a National Health Program | |
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| Has Canada Got the Cure? | |
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| Problems of People, Resources, and Place | |
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| Cities | |
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| New Lessons from the Old World: The European Model for Falling in Love with Your Hometown | |
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| I Love Paris on a Bus, a Bike, a Train and in Anything but a Car | |
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| Environment | |
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| Flush with Energy | |
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| Scandinavia Gets Serious on Global Warming | |
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| The $6.66-a-Gallon Solution | |
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| Individual Deviance | |
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| Crime and Crime Control | |
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| Lawless, but Gunless | |
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| Reducing Crime by Harnessing International Best Practices | |
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| Drugs | |
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| Does Europe Do It Better? Lessons from Holland, Britain, and Switzerland | |
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| Europe: Curing, Not Punishing, Addicts | |
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