Abstract
The focus of this book is on the provision of welfare in a selected number of countries across the developed world. As the Introduction notes, our aim has been to provide a resource for the comparative study of social policy or welfare. However, this undertaking raises a number of important theoretical and definitional problems. What do we mean by ‘developed’ countries? What do we mean by social policy or welfare provision? More specifically, to what extent are these concepts uniformly understood in each country represented in the book? And, finally, what is the most useful framework within which to pursue comparisons between countries with differing social, political and economic histories?
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