This book offers unprecedented insights into both the workings of the Commonwealth and into the contrasting experiences of member states within it, with regard to social exclusion. Chapters on British social policy tradition and on concepts of social inclusion/exclusion, preface a series of case studies illustrative of different member states' experiences to date.

PATRICIA HARRIS is Professor of Sociology and Social Policy, and Director of the Centre for Social and Community Research at Murdoch University, Australia BARBARA HARRISS-WHITE is Professor of Development Studies and Deputy Directory of Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford University, UK LAKSIRI JAYASURIYA is Emeritus Professor and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the School of Social and Cultural Studies, University of Western Australia, Australia JAMES LEE is Associate Professor at the City University of Hong Kong, China W.DAVID MCINTYRE is Emeritus Professor at the Macmillan Brown Centre of Pacific Studies at the University of Christchurch, New Zealand JAMES MIDGLEY is Harry and Riva Specht Professor of Public Social Services and Dean of the School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley, USA JOY MONCRIEFFE completed her PhD on Jamaican health policy administration at the University of Cambridge LEILA PATEL is Professor of Social Development Studies and Chairperson of the Department of Social Work at the Rand Afrikaans University in Johannesburg, South Africa MORENA J. RANKOPO is a Social Work Lecturer at the University of Botswana, Botswana ERN-SER TAN is an Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore, Asia MALCOLM J. STEWART is in the Department of Social Work, University of Toronto, Canada SUSAN ST JOHN is Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Auckland, New Zealand, and a Social Policy Advisor and Consultant SOUCHOU YAO teaches Anthropology in the University of Sydney, Australia.

Editorial Introduction; C.Jones Finer & P.Smyth PART I: INTRODUCTORY OVERVIEW British Social Policy Tradition in Relation to Empire and Commonwealth; C.Jones Finer Social Inclusion in a Changing World and Commonwealth; P.Harris PART II: NATIONAL CASE STUDIES The Paradox of Exclusion/Inclusion: The West Indies - Jamaica; J.Moncrieffe Community Development in Botswana: Is There Social Inclusion?; M.J.Rankopo Social Welfare and Social Development in South Africa: Reshaping the Colonial and Apartheid Legacy for a Global Era; L.Patel & J.Midgley Social Inclusive Social Security in Rural Tamil Nadu, India; B.Harriss-White Social Policy and the Sri Lankan Welfare State: The British Colonial Legacy; L.Jayasuria Balancing State Welfarism and Individual Responsibility; Singapore's CPF Model Ern-Ser Tan After The Malay Dilemma: Colonial Heritage and Ethnic Exclusion in Malaysia; S.Yao The Tyranny of Home Ownership: Housing Policy and Social Exclusion in Colonial and Post-Colonial Hong Kong; J.Lee The British Social Policy Legacy and the 'Australian Way'; P.Smyth Redesigning the Welfare State in New Zealand; S.St John Canada, Social Inclusion and the Commonwealth; M.J.Stewart PART III: THE COMMONWEALTH AS A TRANSNATIONAL INSTITUTION The Commonwealth and Social Inclusion; W.D.McIntyre Editorial Conclusion; C.Jones Finer & P.Smyth