This book bridges the disciplines of micro-economics and social policy in general, and, in particular, behavioral/explanatory social policy and public choice theory, plus Leibenstein's X-efficiency theory. Being trained as an economist and social policy scientist, the author leaps out of the...

"This book presents a new step farther into the twenty-first century, for the first time truly combining a comprehensive global data analysis with social policy theory development. The theory of global ideal-typical welfare regimes, also known as the “Ten Worlds of Welfare Regime Theory”, as...

Telling the untold story of explosion, stagnation and continuation of welfare state system financing in Asia: an introduction / Christian Aspalter -- A pas de trois in social policy theory: understanding the financing of welfare state systems / Christian Aspalter -- Financing the welfare state...