Insecurity And Welfare Regimes In Asia Africa And Latin America
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Insecurity And Welfare Regimes In Asia Africa And Latin America
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Author : Ian Gough
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2004-02-26
Insecurity And Welfare Regimes In Asia Africa And Latin America written by Ian Gough and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-02-26 with Political Science categories.
Written by a team of internationally respected experts, this book explores the conditions under which social policy, defined as the public pursuit of secure welfare, operates in the poorer regions of the world. Social policy in advanced capitalist countries operates through state intervention to compensate for the inadequate welfare outcomes of the labour market. Such welfare regimes cannot easily be reproduced in poorer regions of the world where states suffer problems of governance and labour markets are imperfect and partial. Other welfare regimes therefore prevail involving non-state actors such as landlords, moneylenders and patrons. This book seeks to develop a conceptual framework for understanding different types of welfare regime in a range of countries in Asia, Latin America and Africa and makes an important contribution to the literature by breaking away from the traditional focus on Europe and North America.
Insecurity And Welfare Regimes In Asia Africa And Latin America
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Author : Ian Gough
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Insecurity And Welfare Regimes In Asia Africa And Latin America written by Ian Gough and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Developing countries categories.
Insecurity And Welfare Regimes In Asia Africa And Latin America
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Author : Ian Gough
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-09-01
Insecurity And Welfare Regimes In Asia Africa And Latin America written by Ian Gough and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-01 with Electronic books categories.
Explores the conditions under which social policy operates in the poorer regions of the world.
Latin American Social Policy Developments In The Twenty First Century
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Author : Natália Sátyro
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-02-12
Latin American Social Policy Developments In The Twenty First Century written by Natália Sátyro and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-12 with Political Science categories.
This book explores the scope of reforms and changes in the social protection systems in Latin America that have started at the beginning of the 21st century. It describes how and to what extent changes in social protection systems and social policies have occurred in the region in recent decades. Taking a comparative approach, the volume identifies the triggers for the transformations and how such pressures are received by the welfare regime, or a specific policy sector, to finally yield a given type of reform. The analysis is characterized by the presence of certain factors that explain the development of social protection systems in Latin America, such as economic growth, the consolidation of democratic political regimes, and the region’s Left Turns. The book also examines to what extent common challenges and processes induced by international institutions have led to convergence among countries or welfare regimes, or whether each maintains its own identity.
Comparative Welfare State Politics
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Author : Kees van Kersbergen
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014
Comparative Welfare State Politics written by Kees van Kersbergen and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Political Science categories.
Kees van Kersbergen and Barbara Vis explain the political opportunities and constraints of welfare state reform in advanced democracies.
Socio Economic Insecurity In Emerging Economies
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Author : Khayaat Fakier
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-06-05
Socio Economic Insecurity In Emerging Economies written by Khayaat Fakier and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-05 with Business & Economics categories.
Taking a unique comparative approach to the respective development paths of India, Brazil and South Africa (IBSA), this book shows that people and governments in all three countries are faced with similar challenges of heightened insecurity, caused by liberalization and structural adjustment. The ways in which governments, as well as individuals and worker organisations in IBSA have responded to these challenges are at the core of this book. The book explores the nature of insecurity in the Global South; the nature of the responses to this insecurity on public and small-scale collective as well as individual level; the potential of these responses to be more than neo-liberal mechanisms to govern and contain the poor and lessons to be learnt from these three countries. The first section covers livelihood strategies in urban and rural areas as individual and small-scale collective response to the condition of insecurity. Insecurity in the countries of the South is characterised by a high degree of uncertainty of the availability of income opportunities. The second section looks at state responses to insecurity and contributions on social protection measures taken by the respective IBSA governments. The third section discusses whether alternative development paths can be identified. The aim is to move beyond ‘denunciatory analysis.’ Livelihood strategies as well as public policies in some of the cases allow for the building of new spaces for agency and contestation of a neo-liberal mainstream which provide emerging and experimental examples. The book develops new thinking on Northern welfare states and their declining trade unions. It argues that these concepts, knowledge and policy innovations are now travelling in three directions, from North to South, from South to North, and between Southern countries. This book provides unique insights for researchers and postgraduate students in development studies, social policy and industrial sociology.
Wellbeing In Developing Countries
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Author : Ian Gough
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2007-05-31
Wellbeing In Developing Countries written by Ian Gough and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-05-31 with Social Science categories.
In a world where many experience unprecedented levels of wellbeing, chronic poverty remains a major concern for many developing countries and the international community. Conventional frameworks for understanding development and poverty have focused on money, commodities and economic growth. This 2007 book challenges these conventional approaches and contributes to a new paradigm for development centred on human wellbeing. Poor people are not defined solely by their poverty and a wellbeing approach provides a better means of understanding how people become and stay poor. It examines three perspectives: ideas of human functioning, capabilities and needs; the analysis of livelihoods and resource use; and research on subjective wellbeing and happiness. A range of international experts from psychology, economics, anthropology, sociology, political science and development evaluate the state-of-the-art in understanding wellbeing from these perspectives. This book establishes a new strategy and methodology for researching wellbeing that can influence policy.
The Decline Of The Welfare State
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Author : Assaf Razin
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2005-01-21
The Decline Of The Welfare State written by Assaf Razin and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-21 with Business & Economics categories.
An analysis of the welfare state from a political economy perspective that examines the effects of aging populations, migration, and globalization on industrialized economies. In The Decline of the Welfare State, Assaf Razin and Efraim Sadka use a political economy framework to analyze the effects of aging populations, migration, and globalization on the deteriorating system of financing welfare state benefits as we know them. Their timely analysis, supported by a unified theoretical framework and empirical findings, demonstrates how the combined forces of demographic change and globalization will make it impossible for the welfare state to maintain itself on its present scale. In much of the developed world, the proportion of the population aged 60 and over is expected to rise dramatically over the coming years—from 35 percent in 2000 to a projected 66 percent in 2050 in the European Union and from 27 percent to 47 percent in the United States—which may necessitate higher tax burdens and greater public debt to maintain national pension systems at current levels. Low-skill migration produces additional strains on welfare-state financing because such migrants typically receive benefits that exceed what they pay in taxes. Higher capital taxation, which could potentially be used to finance welfare benefits, is made unlikely by international tax competition brought about by globalization of the capital market. Applying a political economy model and drawing on empirical data from the EU and the United States, the authors draw an unconventional and provocative conclusion from these developments. They argue that the political pressure from both aging and migrant populations indirectly generates political processes that favor trimming rather than expanding the welfare state. The combined pressures of aging, migration, and globalization will shift the balance of political power and generate public support from the majority of the voting population for cutting back traditional welfare state benefits.
Working Parents And The Welfare State
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Author : Arnlaug Leira
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2002-04-04
Working Parents And The Welfare State written by Arnlaug Leira and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-04-04 with Family & Relationships categories.
This book uses data from Finland, Denmark, Norway and Sweden to rethink welfare policy.
The Rewards Of Punishment
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Author : Christine Horne
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2009-05-08
The Rewards Of Punishment written by Christine Horne and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-08 with Social Science categories.
The Rewards of Punishment describes a new social theory of norms to provide a compelling explanation why people punish. Identifying mechanisms that link interdependence with norm enforcement, it reveals how social relationships lead individuals to enforce norms, even when doing so makes little sense. This groundbreaking book tells the whole story, from ideas, to experiments, to real-world applications. In addition to addressing longstanding theoretical puzzles—such as why harmful behavior is not always punished, why individuals enforce norms in ways that actually hurt the group, why people enforce norms that benefit others rather than themselves, why groups punish behavior that has only trivial effects, and why atypical behaviors are sometimes punished and sometimes not—it explores the implications of the theory for substantive issues, including norms regulating sex, crime, and international human rights.
