J. C. Vrooman is Head of the Labour and Public Services research sector at the Netherlands Institute for Social Research and holds the Endowed Chair in Social Security and Participation at Utrecht University.
"The book shows an impressive knowledge and understanding, in a
welfare perspective, of many elements and details of social
security systems... It includes a central and important distinction
between formal and informal social security and a discussion of the
interaction between rules and behaviour, including compliance with
certain sets of rules and decisions. This is perhaps one of the
most neglected areas of social security studies."–Journal of Social
Policy"Rules of Relief is undoubtedly state of the art research in
many ways... [T]he book is a seminal contribution to the literature
on institutional research and comparative welfare analysis. It
contains a provocative analysis that will be useful for graduate
students interested in social policy, institutional analysis and
social security studies in general. Rules of Relief should also
serve as a great reference library for researchers interested in
understanding welfare state development in advanced industrialized
countries."
–European Journal of Social Security"Rules of Relief provides an
interesting and a provocative demonstration that 'institutions
matter' by outlining social security regulations in eleven
developed countries... The book provides a theoretical analysis of
the origin, emergence and development of social security
institutions as well as the empirical evidence of their impact
corresponding to the three models... [This book] provides
meaningful insights to the collective significance of social
security institutions and would be useful for researchers and
students interested in social policy, understanding welfare state
development in advances industrialized countries and making
institutional analysis of social security issues."–Mala Kapur
Shankardass, Comparative Sociology
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