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30 Int'l Soc. Work 3 (1987)

handle is hein.journals/intsocwk30 and id is 1 raw text is: Editorial International Social Work's mission statement indicates that 'the journal places particular emphasis on articles concerned with comparative analysis'. Comparisons can be used in any type of social analysis to evaluate, explain, and to encourage creative thinking about alternative approaches to problem solving. In an international context, comparative analysis specifically refers to comparisons across nations and cultures. Such analysis is designed to increase sensitivity and deepen appreciation for both differences and similarities in cross-national social environments and value systems. In our field, it should also foster an under- standing of commonalities and variances in social policies, social welfare programmes and social work practice in different countries. Thus, attitudes can be shaped and knowledge deepened by appropriate and effective use of comparative analysis. This issue again features articles which use comparison as a principal tool of analysis. Sidney Zimbalist examines differences between Swedish and American social expenditures and notes increasing divergence in both level and types of welfare commit- ments. This comparison leads him to several significant conclusions, including the point that 'more universalistic programs engender broader public constituencies, whereas more selective means tested programs lead to decreasing support'. Ideas and values rather than programmes and expenditures provide the subject for Nelson Chow's analysis. He offers a historical and cross-cultural comparison of Western and Chinese ideas about social welfare. His examination suggests that ideas about the role of the individual versus that of the family and the emphasis on contract versus compassion, have a major impact on approaches to social welfare in different countries. These articles provide examples of how different forms of comparison can increase our understanding of programmes and practice, both within and among nations and cultures. This is my final issue as editor-in-chief of International Social Work. My new responsibilities as president of the Council on Social Work Education, the national accrediting organization for schools of social work in the United States demand too much time and International Social Work (SAGE, London, Newbury Park, Beverly Hills and New Delhi), Vol. 30 (1987), 3-4.

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