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THE POLITICS OF WORK–FAMILY POLICIES: COMPARING JAPAN, FRANCE, GERMANY AND THE UNITED STATES

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Date01 December 2016
DOIhttp://doi.org/10.1111/padm.12279
Published date01 December 2016
AuthorAnja Eleveld
THE POLITICS OF WORK–FAMILY POLICIES: COMPARING JAPAN, FRANCE,
GERMANY AND THE UNITED STATES
Patricia Boling
Cambridge University Press, 2015, 290 pp., £65.00 (hb), ISBN: 978–1107098121
The Politics of Work–Family Policies provides interesting insights into work and family life
reconciliation politics in France, Germany, Japan and the United States. The power of
this book is that it provides a detailed study of the relations between political processes,
specic institutional constellations and cultural values that either stimulate or impede
work–family policies. It shows in particular how politics matter in explaining permanence
and change of work–family policies.
The choice of the four countries has been inspired by Boling’s puzzlement over the ques-
tion why Japan – a low-spending welfare state similar to the United States – has been able
Public Administration Vol.94, No. 4, 2016 (1155–1163)
© 2016 John Wiley& Sons Ltd.

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