Book review: Globalizing Welfare: An Evolving Asian-European Dialogue
| Author | Mel Cousins |
| DOI | 10.1177/1388262720946617 |
| Published date | 01 September 2020 |
| Date | 01 September 2020 |
| Subject Matter | Book reviews |
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Author biography
Szandra Kramarics is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Eo¨tvo¨s Lor`and
University, Hungary. The focus of her research is to explore the means, goals and changes in
Hungarian family policy measures and their causes after 2010. Email: kramarics.sz@gmail.com
Stein Kuhnle, Per Selle and Sven Holt (eds). Globalizing Welfare: An Evolving Asian-European Dialogue.
Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2019, pp. 350, ISBN: 978-1-78897-583-4 (hardback).
Reviewed by: Mel Cousins, Research Fellow, School of Social Work and Social Policy, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
DOI: 10.1177/1388262720946617
Globalizing Welfare aims to provide an overview of developments in the welfare states in Asia and
Europe (or rather ‘North-East Asia’ and ‘North-Western Europe’), and to develop a dialogue
between the systems of these two regions. As the editors set out in Chapter 1, the book aims to
increase knowledge concerning developments in the two regions, to inspire more attention to
policy learning perspectives, and to highlight...
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