Subject(s): Cross-cultural studies -- Social policy -- Public welfare. -- welfare state -- International context, American welfare state, Canada, Australia - from wage earners to neo liberal welfare state, New Zealand- from early innovation to humanizing the market, UK- constructing a third way, Sweden, Germany - centrist welfare state, Italy- pension state, Russia- state socialism to marketized welfare, japan- constructing the welfare society -- Korea- rescaling the development welfare state, China- art of state and social policy remodeling, south Africa- transition under pressure