Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

Tungohan, Ethel, Care Activism: Migrant Domestic Workers, Movement-Building, and Communities of Care. (NWSA/University of Illinois Press First Book Prize) 256 pp. 2023:8 (U. Illinois Pr., US) <693-397>
ISBN 978-0-252-04526-4 hard ¥23,716.- (税込) US$ 110.00 *
ISBN 978-0-252-08740-0 paper ¥6,036.- (税込) US$ 28.00 *

Care activism challenges the stereotype of downtrodden migrant caregivers by showing that care workers have distinct ways of caring for themselves, for each other, and for the larger transnational community of care workers and their families. Ethel Tungohan illuminates how the goals and desires of migrant care worker activists goes beyond political considerations like policy changes and overturning power structures. Through practices of subversive friendships and being there for each other, care activism acts as an extension of the daily work that caregivers do, oftentimes also instilling practices of resistance and critical hope among care workers. At the same time, the communities created by care activism help migrant caregivers survive and even thrive in the face of arduous working and living conditions and the pains surrounding family separation. As Tungohan shows, care activism also unifies caregivers to resist society's legal and economic devaluations of care and domestic work by reaffirming a belief that they, and what they do, are important and necessary.

C.Aspalter著　福祉資本主義の10の世界－グローバル・データ分析
Aspalter, Christian, Ten Worlds of Welfare Capitalism: A Global Data Analysis. 228 pp. 2023:2 (Springer, GW) <693-398>
ISBN 978-981-19-7862-3 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book presents a new step farther into the twenty-first century, for the first time truly combining a comprehensive global data analysis with social policy theory development. The theory of global ideal-typical welfare regimes, also known as the "Ten Worlds of Welfare Regime Theory", as set forth earlier by Christian Aspalter, is now in this book tested empirically using a quantitative global data analysis for the first time. The strong and rich results fully vindicated the Ten Worlds Theory. All in all, about 150 countries are included in this test, measuring numerous variables on two main dimensions, i.e., povertization and inequality. The innovative approach of using a new indicator, Aspalter's Standardized Relative Performance Index, is applied, which facilitated the exact measurements of distances between relative performances of each variable, each dimension, each country, and each ideal-typical welfare regime (in relation to one another, respectively). In addition, one explanative and one normative meta-study is added to the book, to point to ways to understand and deal with the global culprit of inequality and, hence, poverty."On the backdrop of decades of comparative theoretical and empirical research we now, for the first time, have a truly global analysis of welfare regimes." ---- Peter Abrahamson, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen

Greer, Scott L. / Beland, Daniel / Lecours, Andre et al., Putting Federalism in Its Place: The Territorial Politics of Social Policy Revisited. 252 pp. 2023:1 (U. Michigan Pr., US) <693-399>
ISBN 978-0-472-07554-6 hard ¥16,170.- (税込) US$ 75.00 *
ISBN 978-0-472-05554-8 paper ¥6,457.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

ベーシック・インカム－福祉国家のビジョンから忍び寄る変容へ
Heinze, Rolf G. / Schupp, Juergen, Basic Income - From Vision to Creeping Transformation of the Welfare State. 200 pp. 2023:5 (Springer VS, GW) <693-400>
ISBN 978-3-658-40268-6 paper ¥16,474.- (税込) EUR 69.99 *

The present publication constitutively expands the field of discourse on the topic of basic income and explores the possibilities of its introduction as well as the opportunities and risks. Although all visionary proposals for an unconditional basic income (BGE) have so far not been implemented politically, at least in democratically constituted welfare states, the question of implementation or the conditions for success and the identification of possible blockades have only been dealt with marginally. Recent publications on a BGE also show this political-institutional "blindness" and do not address enough the reasons for the failure so far. Without a transfer strategy, however, the idea will fail in Germany due to such implementation naivety. In this book, therefore, the state of the debate on basic income is developed further to the extent that it is integrated into welfare-state development processes and current challenges for the "safeguarding of social security". In addition, a social-scientific classification of hitherto visionary guarantee elements of a basic income model is undertaken, linking up with the "silent" change to a socially investing state.

Widerquist, Karl, The Problem of Property: Taking the Freedom of Nonowners Seriously. (Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee) 131 pp. 2023:1 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <693-233>
ISBN 978-3-031-21947-4 hard ¥23,536.- (税込) EUR 99.99

This book is Karl Widerquist's first statement of the "indepentarian" theory of justice, or what he calls "Justice as the Pursuit of Accord" (JPA). It provides five arguments for UBI, one based on the JPA theory of freedom, another based on the JPA theory of property, and three that reply to common objections to UBI. Each of these three turns the argument around using the central concepts in a justification for UBI. Although the central argument is for one specific policy proposal, this book's perspective is much wider, including very basic criticism of social-contract-based and natural-rights-based theories of justice.