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Between two worlds of father politics: USA or Sweden?
Michael Rush
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Description for Between two worlds of father politics: USA or Sweden?
Hardcover. Offers students a comparative analytical framework for ways of thinking about fatherhood and new insights into why some welfare states have 'father-friendly' social policies and why others don't. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ2; JKSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 162 x 18. Weight in Grams: 416.
The essential message of the ‘two regimes’ model is that the social politics of fatherhood have taken on a global significance and that the USA and Sweden represent two ends of an international continuum of ways of thinking about fatherhood. The key selling points of the two regimes model are its topicality, originality, its global appeal, and its particularised appeal to readers in the USA, the Nordic countries, Great Britain, Ireland, the European Union, Japan and China. The book offers students a comparative analytical framework and new insights into why some welfare states have ‘father-friendly’ social policies and others do ... Read more
The essential message of the ‘two regimes’ model is that the social politics of fatherhood have taken on a global significance and that the USA and Sweden represent two ends of an international continuum of ways of thinking about fatherhood. The key selling points of the two regimes model are its topicality, originality, its global appeal, and its particularised appeal to readers in the USA, the Nordic countries, Great Britain, Ireland, the European Union, Japan and China. The book offers students a comparative analytical framework and new insights into why some welfare states have ‘father-friendly’ social policies and others do ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719091896
SKU
V9780719091896
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About Michael Rush
Michael Rush is a Lecturer in Social Policy in the School of Applied Social Science at University College Dublin -- .
Reviews for Between two worlds of father politics: USA or Sweden?
'In this book Michael Rush guides us through the academic, political and public debate on family-related policy in not just the US and Sweden but also the UK, Ireland, the EU, China and Japan. He brings together research on parental leave, responsibilities of non-resident parents and ideas of the centrality of marriage, resulting in a multi-dimensional understanding of the concept ... Read more