TY  - BOOK
AU  - Clasen,Jochen
AU  - Siegel,Nico A.
TI  - Investigating welfare state change: the 'dependent variable problem' in comparative analysis 
SN  - 1847206913
AV  - HN18.3 .I58 2007
U1  - 330.126 22
PY  - 2007///]
CY  - Cheltenham, UK, Northampton, MA
PB  - Edward Elgar
KW  - Welfare state
KW  - OECD countries
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Public welfare
KW  - Evaluation
KW  - Social policy
N1  - Studies from 'thematic seminar' held in May 2005 at the University of Stirling, and then from a panel organized at the 2005 ESPAnet [European Social Policy Analysis network] conference in Fribourg, Switzerland, with the addition of results and subsequent discussions on the subject; Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-311) and index; Comparative welfare state analysis and the dependent variable problem; Jochen Clasen and Nico A Siegel --; More than data questions and methodological issues: theoretical conceptualization and the dependent variable 'problem' in the study of welfare reform; Christoffer Green-Pedersen --; Too narrow and too wide at once: the 'welfare state' as dependent variable in policy analysis; Giuliano Bonoli --; When (only) money matters: the pros and cons of expenditure analysis; Nico A. Siegel --; Social expenditure under scrutiny. the problems of using aggregate spending data for assessing welfare state dynamics; Johan De Deken and Bernhard Kittel --; Social rights, structural needs and social expenditure: a comparative study of 18 OECD countries 1960-2000; Olli Kangas and Joakim Palme --; Welfare state generosity across space and time; Lyle Scruggs --; Levels and levers of conditionality: measuring change within welfare states; Jochen Clasen and Daniel Clegg --; Exploring diversity: measuring welfare state change with fuzzy set methodology; Jon Kvist --; Convergence in European welfare state analysis: convergence of what?; Julia O'Connor --; (In)dependence as dependent variable: conceptualizing and measuring 'de-familization'; Sigrid Leitner and Stephan Lessenich --; Pension reform: beyond path dependency?; Sven Jochem
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