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| List of boxes and tables | |
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| Notes on contributors | |
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| Series editor's foreword | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| List of abbreviations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The changing context of social policy | |
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| Nation, state and welfare in cross-national research | |
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| Clarifying concepts in cross-national social policy analysis | |
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| Approaches to cross-national analysis | |
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| Fragmentation, differentiation and social exclusion | |
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| Globalization, supranationalism and social policy | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The shaping of a globalized world | |
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| Capitalism, democracy and deregulation | |
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| Transnational corporations, mobile capital and the 'race to the bottom' | |
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| International institutions and non-governmental organizations | |
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| Culture and communication: globalization or polarization? | |
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| An ideological shift: from Keynesianism to neo-liberalism | |
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| The state, the economy and social policy | |
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| Intergovernmental policy, multilevel governance or supranational social policy? | |
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| Multilevel governance, social policy and the European Union | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Defining and constructing the research process | |
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| Introduction | |
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| What is cross-national comparative social research? | |
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| Equivalence in meanings and concepts | |
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| Conceptualizing disadvantage | |
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| Collecting and interpreting international data | |
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| Measuring the workforce: conceptual and definitional problems | |
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| Harmonized data: help or hindrance? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Theory and analysis in cross-national social policy research | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Industrialization and modernization | |
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| Politics, ideology and the welfare state | |
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| Shift in theory and analysis | |
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| Recognizing difference and diversity | |
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| Welfare state typologies | |
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| The gendered and ethnocentric construction of social welfare | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Development, social welfare and cross-national analysis | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Development as a discourse | |
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| Theorizing development and the Third World | |
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| Development and social welfare | |
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| The New Right, structural adjustment and developing countries | |
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| Reviewing the research paradigm | |
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| Non-governmental organizations and the state | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Ethnicity, gender and the boundaries of citizenship: Australia, Britain and Japan | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The citizenship theme | |
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| Welfare and citizenship | |
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| Linking citizenship and gender | |
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| Policy logics of race, ethnicity and the nation | |
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| Restructuring and a renegotiation of the social contract | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Further reading | |
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| The future of comparative social policy research | |
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| Supranational social policy? | |
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| A global research strategy | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |