LINDA HANTRAIS is Emeritus Professor of European Social Policy at Loughborough University, UK; Visiting Fellow at the Centre for International Studies, London School of Economics; and Member of the Academy of Social Sciences, UK. Her publications include Social Policy in the European Union, now in its third edition, and Family Policy Matters: Responding to Family Change in Europe.

• List of FiguresPrefaceDefining and Mapping International Comparative ResearchDisciplinary Approaches to Comparative Research in International SettingsProject Design in International Comparative ResearchDefining and Analysing Concepts and ContextsCombining Methods in International Comparative ResearchResearch and Policy in International SettingsManaging International Comparative ResearchReferencesIndex.

LINDA HANTRAIS is Emeritus Professor of European Social Policy at Loughborough University, UK; Visiting Fellow at the Centre for International Studies, London School of Economics; and Member of the Academy of Social Sciences, UK. Her publications include Social Policy in the European Union, now in its third edition, and Family Policy Matters: Responding to Family Change in Europe.

• List of FiguresPrefaceDefining and Mapping International Comparative ResearchDisciplinary Approaches to Comparative Research in International SettingsProject Design in International Comparative ResearchDefining and Analysing Concepts and ContextsCombining Methods in International Comparative ResearchResearch and Policy in International SettingsManaging International Comparative ResearchReferencesIndex.

LINDA HANTRAIS is Emeritus Professor of European Social Policy at Loughborough University, UK; Visiting Fellow at the Centre for International Studies, London School of Economics; and Member of the Academy of Social Sciences, UK. Her publications include Social Policy in the European Union, now in its third edition, and Family Policy Matters: Responding to Family Change in Europe.

• List of FiguresPrefaceDefining and Mapping International Comparative ResearchDisciplinary Approaches to Comparative Research in International SettingsProject Design in International Comparative ResearchDefining and Analysing Concepts and ContextsCombining Methods in International Comparative ResearchResearch and Policy in International SettingsManaging International Comparative ResearchReferencesIndex.