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Comparative Social Policy – Old Questions, New Topics and Original Answers – By Jochen Clasen

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2014

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1 For a recent review, see Edwin Amenta, ‘What We Know About the Development of Social Policy: Comparative and Historical Research in Comparative and Historical Perspective’, in James Mahoney and Dietrich Rueschemeyer (eds), Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. 91130.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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