The Welfare State: A Very Short Introduction

Name: The Welfare State: A Very Short Introduction
SKU: 9780199672660
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By (author) David Garland,

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This Very Short Introduction discusses the necessity of welfare states in modern capitalist societies. Situating social policy in an historical, sociological, and comparative perspective, David Garland brings a new understanding to familiar debates, policies, and institutions.

SKU: 9780199672660

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ISBN: 9780199672660

Book Format: Paperback / softback

Pages: 176

Dimensions: 11.3 × 0.9 × 17.3 cm

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Format Paperback / softback | 176 pages
Dimensions 11.3 × 0.9 × 17.3 cm | 151
Publication Date 24 March 2016
Publisher Oxford University Press
Publication City/Country United Kingdom

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David Garland

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David Garland is the Arthur T. Vanderbilt Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology at New York University and Professorial Fellow at Edinburgh University. He is a graduate of the University of Edinburgh and taught there from 1979 to 1997 before moving to the USA. A Fellow of the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Garland is the author of a series of award-winning boo ks on punishment and criminal justice, including Punishment and Welfare (1985), The Culture of Control (OUP 2001) and Peculiar Institution: America's Death Penalty in and Age of Abolition (OUP 2010). His recent work on the welfare state has appeared in the European Journal of Sociology.

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