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ANALYSING SOCIAL POLICY CONCEPTS AND LANGUAGE

Comparative and transnational perspectives

Edited by Daniel Bland and Klaus Petersen

First published in Great Britain in 2015 by

Policy Press University of Bristol 1-9 Old Park Hill Bristol BS2 8BB UK Tel +44 (0)117 954 5940 e-mail

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Contents

Daniel Bland and Klaus Petersen

Nils Edling, Jrn Henrik Petersen and Klaus Petersen

Zsfia Aczl, Dorota Szelewa and Dorottya Szikra

Jean-Claude Barbier

Rianne Mahon

Antje Vetterlein

Daniel Wincott

Daniel Bland

Pauli Kettunen

Stephan Lessenich

Toshimitsu Shinkawa and Yuki Tsuji

Huck-ju Kwon

Kees van Kersbergen and Jaap Woldendorp

Neil Lunt

Ana M. Guilln and David Luque

Jennifer Klein, Daniel Bland and Klaus Petersen

Klaus Petersen and Daniel Bland

List of figures

List of tables

This project emerged in the context of the Nordic Centre of Excellence NordWel, which is funded by Nordforsk. Daniel Bland acknowledges support from the Canada Research Chairs Program. Klaus Petersen has received support from the Carlsberg Foundation, through his project on Danish welfare state history.

Some of the chapters in the volume were presented at the 2012 annual Social Science History conference in Vancouver, where Jenny Andersson (Science-Po, Paris) provided helpful comments. We also thank the anonymous reviewers from Policy Press for offering very constructive criticism. Many thanks to the Policy Press editorial team for their support, especially Rebecca Tomlinson, Laura Vickers, and Emily Watt. We also acknowledge the work of our copy editors: Tanya Andrusieczko, Steven Sampson, and Sarah Hoffmann Nielsen. Last but not least, we thank the contributors for their willingness to participate in this attempt to set a new research agenda in comparative welfare state research.

Zsfia Aczl is a doctoral student in the Department of Social Policy at Etvs University of Sciences, Hungary. Her research focuses on gendered patterns of communication in social work and the history of social services in Hungary. Her publications include A jlti llam s a nk: a maternalista szocilpolitika (with Dorottya Szikra), in Adamik, M. (ed.) Bevezets a szocilpolitika nem szerinti rtelmezsbe (Etvs University of Sciences, 2012).

Jean-Claude Barbier is emeritus CNRS researcher at University Paris 1 (Panthon Sorbonne), France. He conducts comparative research on social protection systems, especially in Europe. His research interests also include epistemological and methodological issues of the very practice of comparison. His recent publications include: Le systme franais de protection sociale (La Dcouverte, 2009); Social Policies: Epistemological and Methodological Issues in Cross-National Comparison (Peter Lang, 2005); and La longue marche vers lEurope sociale (PUF 2008, adapted in 2013 for Routledge as The Road to Social Europe: A contemporary approach to political cultures and diversity in Europe).

Daniel Bland is Canada Research Chair in Public Policy (Tier 1) and professor at the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy (University of Saskatchewan campus). A political sociologist studying public policy from an historical and comparative perspective, he has published 10 books and more than 80 articles in peer-reviewed journals. Recent books include What is Social Policy? (Polity, 2010); The Politics of Policy Change (Georgetown University Press, 2012, with Alex Waddan); and Ideas and Politics in Social Science Research (Oxford University Press, 2011, co-edited with Robert Henry Cox).

Nils Edling is university lecturer and researcher in the Department of History, Stockholm University, Sweden. His main research interest is the comparative history of unemployment in Scandinavia from the 1850s to the 1920s. He is currently working on the project The struggle over the welfare state: A conceptual history of welfare in Sweden 18502000. Recent publications include Regulating unemployment the Continental way: the transfer of municipal labour exchanges to Scandinavia 18901914, European Review of History - Revue Europenne dHistoire, 15(1), 2008: 2340, and The primacy of welfare politics: notes on the language of the Swedish Social Democrats and their adversaries in 1930s, in Haggrn, H., Rainio-Niemi, J. and Vauhkonen, J. (eds) Multi-layered Historicity of the Present: Approaches to Social Science History (Helsinki University 2013).

Ana M. Guilln is professor of sociology and head of department at the University of Oviedo, Spain. She has written extensively on welfare state development, health policy, Europeanisation and comparative social policy, especially on South European welfare states. She has acted as a consultant to the European Commission and several European Union presidencies. Recent publications include Work-Life Balance in Europe. The Role of Job Quality, co-edited with Sonja Drobnic (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011); The Spanish Welfare State in European Context, coedited with Margarita Len (Ashgate, 2011); and Health Care Systems in Europe under Austerity: Institutional Reforms and Performance, co-edited with Emmanuele Pavolini (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).

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