The author wants to note that welfare reform is but one part of what is happening politically to gender relations, to women, and to poor mothers, even within the system of income support, in the United States. Of particular importance within income support is the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC),...

The paper redresses an imbalance in the study of the welfare state: the comparative neglect of health care programmes as sources of evidence about the changing politics of the welfare state. It explains why health care should be central to our understanding of the welfare state; summarises the...

The objective of this paper is to analyse how different countries approach the objective of equity in the provision of long-term care. Explicitly or implicitly, welfare state definitions and social policy definitions include notions such as equity, justice or equality, theyr are even at the core...

The paper examines the gender relations upsheld by the Italian welfare state, and points out that the reforms of cash transfer programs, which took place after 1992, reinforce the "male -breadwinner/female -housekeeper" model.

The question as to whether or not 'gender matters' in the issue of the delivery of care may seem a very odd one, given the enormous literature that has developed within a number of social science disciplines that takes gender relations as the primary perspective in the analysis of care. However,...

To what extent there was outstanding change or continuity in Germany and to what extent various programmes stand out as winners or losers of the era Kohl can only be determined by looking at longitudinal data of programme development and at comparative data the put the German Changes into...

How and why have non-nationals acquired social rights and welfare benefits since the 1970s? I have sought to answer this question through a comparative study of the evolution of the rights of foreigners in France, Germany and the Netherlands since 1973, when post-war foreign labor recruitment...