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The perspective in this book is quite different to much of the previous analyses of the Sri Lankan social development experience... the book presents what is best described as an ‘insider/outsider’ view on Sri Lanka, which is a rarity.
(The Book Review)This scholarly work is an important contribution to the literature of global social policy-making as social development. Professor Laksiri Jayasuriya offers an intriguing excursion into the history of social policy, social development, historical legacies and emerging post-colonial politics. Sri Lanka may be ‘a unique case’, but the lessons drawn from its welfare history are by no means unique... This study provides important ideas about the interaction of states and markets in achieving relatively equitable social development... The author has achieved double success by looking how past and present interact in the social theory through a comparative lens, which reflects his deep thinking as a humane scholar.
(Asia Pacific World)This volume is the work of a mature academic and analyst. It draws on a formidable array of conceptual, policy and historical resources and in so doing makes an invaluable contribution to our understanding of an extremely important policy and social development site—once an exemplar of equitable social development, but now, as others have noted, a paradise clearly lost. The work generates understanding of the complex interplay of policy, economics and politics and its contribution is readily transferable to other contexts... The context gives weight to the value of Professor Jayasuriya’s reflective volume, not just for scholars of Sri Lankan society, but to those with an interest in the interface between public policy, economics and the real politics. The volume stands as a testimony to the value of comparative social policy.
(The Island)Laksiri Jayasuriya, currently Emeritus Professor and Senior Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia, is a graduate of the University of Sydney, with a doctorate from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London. Previously he was the Foundation Professor of Sociology and Social Welfare at the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. In Australia he held the Foundation Chair of Social Work and Social Administration at the University of Western Australia. His publications include Welfarism and Politics in Sri Lanka (2000), Immigration and Multiculturalism in Australia (1997), The Asianization of Australia? Some Facts about the Myths (co-author, 1999), The Changing Face of Electoral Politics in Sri Lanka (2005) and The Legacies of White Australia (co-editor, 2002).
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