The ethnocentric construction of the welfare state

A Handbook of Comparative Social Policy

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 116-130

  Walker, Alan ^a   Wong, Chack kie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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