Double Standard explores how and why different models of social and welfare policy developed in the United States and Europe. It examines common social problems such as poverty, inequality, unemployment, family support, health care, ethnic and racial conflict, and crime. Different social policy orientations have produced disparate social ways of life, ways of life that are now in contention for the future of Western societies.

Double Standard explores how and why different models of social and welfare policy developed in the United States and Europe. It examines common social problems such as poverty, inequality, unemployment, family support, health care, ethnic and racial conflict, and crime. Different social policy orientations have produced disparate social ways of life, ways of life that are now in contention for the future of Western societies.