Cultural traditions and the Scandinavian social policy model

Social Policy and Administration

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 723-739

  Lin, Ka ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Analytic narrative; Cultural study; Scandinavia; Social policy; Welfare regime

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL TRADITION; SOCIAL POLICY; WELFARE PROVISION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 33745252822     PISSN: 01445596     EISSN: 14679515     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9515.2005.00466.x     Document Type: Article

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