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Pathways to Family Policy in Half a Century of Population Control: International Paradigms and National Programmes
The size, structure, and productivity of populations have been major issues in politics since the emergence of the state in history. When the now-developed countries experienced the first wave of fertility dec...
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Origins of Family Policy: Prerequisites or Diffusion
Various instruments to protect families with children from the consequences of industrialization have been introduced in modernizing nation-states at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentiet...
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A new pathway to universalism? Explaining the spread of ‘social’ pensions in the global South, 1967–2011
The assumption of social responsibility for all citizens is a hallmark of the welfare state, reflecting a notion of universalism. But in develo** countries, old-age pensions only cover small sections of the ...
