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If social policy is the public pursuit of secure welfare, we must first dwell upon the meaning of public action. Dec 02, 2019 this subject, which is taught in indonesia, uses a comparative approach to analyse key areas of contemporary social policy, with a focus on the reform strategies that emerged over the 1990s. The oxford handbook of comparative politics offers a critical survey of the field of empirical political science through the collection of a set of articles written by fortyseven scholars in the discipline of comparative politics. The subject examines the different social policy responses that have characterised these strategies, and considers ways of evaluating policy models in key. Social policy, taken to mean societal responses to social risks poverty, inequality, crime, violence, age, and disability is among the most assailed policy areas throughout the world. Defining comparative social policy in a handbook of comparative social policy second edition.
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