ASHER BEN-ARIEH is Associate Director for Research and Development at the National Council for the Child in Israel and heads its Center for Research and Public Education. He is a faculty member of the Paul Baerwald School of Social Work at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Since 1990 he has been the project director and editor of the annual State of the Child in Israel—A Statistical Abstract.JOHN GAL is Lecturer in Social Policy at the Paul Baerwald School of Social Work at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has published extensively on subjects dealing with poverty and unemployment, social security, and social welfare in Israel and in a comparative context. Among other publications, he has edited a volume dealing with child poverty in Israel.

• PrefacePerspectives on the Welfare StateNormative and Consequentialist Arguments for the Welfare State by Ian GoughWelfare States, Universal Human Needs and Objective Human Welfare: Some Social Science and Socio-legal Perspectives by John Carrier and Ian KendallRepresentation of Gender Equality Issues in Liberal Welfare States in the Context of Restructuring by Julia O'ConnorExclusion, Solidarity and the Challenge of Globalization by Graham RoomFifty Years of Social Security Policy Making: A Participant's Journey by Abraham DoronIssues in the Study of the Isreali Welfare StateIssues and Developments in the Israeli Welfare State by Jack HabibValues, Categorical Benefits and Categorical Legacies in the Israeli Welfare State by John GalDoes the Knesset Matter? MK's Influence on the Making of Social Policy in Israel by Asher Ben-AriehDemocracy for the People? Welfare Policy Making in Israel by Yael YishaiIssues in the Development of the Welfare StateSocial Protection in the Post-War Era: The OECD Experience by Francis CastlesPrivatization and Commercialization in a Global Context by Ernie LightmanDominance, Contest and Reframing by Martin ReinTroublesome Targeting: On the Multilevel Causes of Non-Take-Up by Wim Van OorschotThe Future of Social Policy Making by Hugh HecloIndex