[...]... Page Intentionally Left Blank Preface This handbook on global social policy is one in a set of six global policy handbooks The other five deal with economic, technology, political, international, and legal policy Public policy studies in the past have tended to emphasize domestic policy rather than cross-national policy This has been especially true of American policy studies, which tend to be especially... Professor, Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences, University of Montevallo, Montevallo, Alabama Tatu Vanhanen Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, University of Helsinki, Klaukkala, Finland I _ _ , I I , > ,; > _ Contributors xiii PelgyVaz Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Social Work, Fort Hays State University, Hays, Kansas Steven K Wisensale Associate Professor,... Hae S Kim Professor, Department of International Relations, Troy State University, Fort Walton Beach, Florida I Miran Komac Associate Professor, Institute for Ethnic Studies, Ljubljana, Slovenia i ,;., Mira Marody Professor, Institute for Social Studies, and Institute of Sociology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland Stuart S Nagel Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Illinois,... Rule Adjunct Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada Birgit Sauer Assistant Professor, Institute for Political Science, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria Shyam Nand Singh Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, M D S University, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India Deborah Stienstra Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Winnipeg,... cross -policy research and applications The set not only advocates more of this kind of research but practices what it advocates by providing almost 200 studies in six volumes, averaging about 30 studies each This set of handbooks should be a landmark in the disciplines of both public policy studies and cross-national studies Stuart S Nagel Contents Preface Contributors 1? xi I General Social Policy 1 Social. .. Intentionally Left Blank Handbook o Global f Social Policy This Page Intentionally Left Blank Social Policy An Introduction ' Stuart S Nagel University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois I INTRODUCTION Win-win or super-optimizing analysis of public policy problems tries to find feasible solutions which can enable conservatives, liberals, and other major viewpoints to all come out ahead of their best initial... Associate Professor, School of Family Studies, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut Bang-Soon Yoon Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, and Director, Women Studies Program, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Washington Tingwei Zhang Assistant Professor, Urban Planning and Policy Program, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois... Legislative Representation of Women in 73 Democracies: A Preliminary Analysis W i h a Rule 73 vii " "" "" "" " "- viii Contents I1 Africa’sSocialPolicy 7 Ethnicity, Democracy, and Conflict Management in Africa 93 Victor Azalva 8 The Role of Mass Communication in Egyptian Family Planning Policy Annanv A Khodair and Stever1 K Wisensale 109 I11 Asia’sSocialPolicy 9 Coexistence of Secularism and Fundamentalism... development of win-win solutions, and ( 5 ) feasibility hurdles to overcome The feasibility hurdles to be overcome include economic, administrative, political, psychological, legal, international, and technological hurdles, and the disruption of displaced firms and individuals As applied to social policy, we are especially talking about improving the quality of life of people at the bottom of the social. .. R6jean Pelletier Professor, Department of Political Science, Lava1 University, Ste-Foy, Quebec, Canada Linda K Richter Professor, Department of Political Science, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas William L Richter Associate Provost, Office of International Programs, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas Andrea K Riemer Senior Analyst, A R E Research and Consultancy Office for Security . Handbook of State Government Administration, edited by John J. Gargan 76. Handbook of Global Legal Policy, edited by Stuart S. Nagel 77. Handbook of. 81. Handbook of Organizational Consultation: Second Edition, Revised and 82. Handbook of Global Political Policy, edited by Stuart S. Nagel 83. Handbook