For many years, comparative welfare state research has been afflicted with a sort of methodological nationalism in the sense that countries were treated as independent units. In line with the recent "spatial turn" in comparative public policy studies, this paper examines with regard to three...

The primary objective of this article is to compare the western system of social welfare with Islamic principles of social welfare system. This will help us to compare the similarities and dissimilarities between two welfare systems. The main contention of this article is that the primary source...

Changes in the nature of work and the family, the growing elderly population, and other developments over the past fifty years have rendered existing welfare policies largely out-of-step with economic and social conditions. While welfare state reform clearly raises important questions about...