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Authors:Bastian Becker, Carina Schmitt Abstract: Global Social Policy, Ahead of Print. Access to education and health care are core development goals of the United Nations since its inception. Today, almost all countries have education and health systems in place. In former colonies, the historical roots of these systems can often be traced back to colonial times. In this article, we argue that spending on social services for the local population was seen as a necessary condition to expand the trade-based colonial economy especially in the initial stage of social services dating back to the interwar period. Using novel data on health and education expenditure in 35 former British and French African colonies during the height of their empires (1919–39), we show that trade volumes account for a large share in the variance of expenditure on education but not health services, and that present-day expenditures partly reflect these patterns. Our results suggest that similar mechanisms are at play within the two empires and differences between them are in degree rather than in kind. Citation: Global Social Policy PubDate: 2024-08-14T05:04:20Z DOI: 10.1177/14680181241268301
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Authors:Isabel Georges Abstract: Global Social Policy, Ahead of Print. Focusing on the implementation of social policies in São Paulo (Brazil) during the 2000s, this article critically examines the commodification of poverty. The article explores the impact of the introduction of market logics and privatization as shaped in respect to social protection in a context where the informalization of labour is growing. The text begins with a discussion of social citizenship in Brazil and its transformation over time. Thereafter, the article unpacks the ‘commodification processes’ of social policies during the 2000s to unfold how this influences the organization of a competitive and social labour market outsourced especially to NGOs and associations. The creation of indicators of productivity and ‘social participation’ as well as the introduction of measures to incentivize entrepreneurship, the article suggests, become entries into accessing social rights. The ways in which social workers and beneficiaries experience processes of financialization and monetarization of social aid, the article shows, indicate changing understandings of social citizenship and its implications for the poor. Citation: Global Social Policy PubDate: 2024-07-24T08:17:54Z DOI: 10.1177/14680181241263586
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Citation: Global Social Policy PubDate: 2024-07-23T11:48:00Z DOI: 10.1177/14680181241261477
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Authors:Sohini Kar Abstract: Global Social Policy, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Global Social Policy PubDate: 2024-06-21T05:02:58Z DOI: 10.1177/14680181241261470
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Authors:Benedetta Cotta Abstract: Global Social Policy, Ahead of Print. With the publication of the European Green Deal (EGD) in December 2019, the European Union (EU) has recognised a link between environmental and social challenges and the need to tackle them together. A body of literature publishing under the umbrella concept of sustainable welfare and the term eco-social policies has acknowledged the environmental and social nexus and has been characterised by six prominent eco-social aspects namely, the integration between environmental and social policy goals, their link with economic growth, just transition, redistribution and compensation, citizens’ participation, and the state’s role. However, an in-depth analysis of the eco-social aspects contained in recent European policy documents that can be traced back to the eco-social literature is missing. To address this gap, this article focuses on two policy documents considered at the heart of the European ambition of achieving carbon neutrality by 2050, namely the EGD Communication and the Farm to Fork (F2F) Strategy. The article applies a document content analysis of these two documents and uses the six eco-social aspects as a heuristic to analyse and provide descriptive examples of the EGD and the F2F. The content analyses of these documents reveal several elements that advance the understanding of recent EU policies from an eco-social perspective. The study provides knowledge of envisaged compensatory and redistributive measures to the groups and entities affected by the socio-ecological transition and initiatives to enhance a global just transition. Both documents also recognise the primary role of citizens in driving the transition, complementing ongoing eco-social research on participatory processes. The EGD and the F2F reveal also some distinctions in the way the eco-social literature discusses states’ role in eco-social policy-making, the relationship between environmental and social policies and economic growth and intergenerational justice. Citation: Global Social Policy PubDate: 2024-06-19T12:10:03Z DOI: 10.1177/14680181241261068
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Authors:Gavan Blau, Dennis Arnold Abstract: Global Social Policy, Ahead of Print. This article examines how livelihood security is co-produced through multiple strategies in Southeast Asia’s agrarian transformation, by considering the case of Cambodian migrant workers, who cobble together their livelihood through a combination of land, labour and debt. These workers leverage small landholdings as collateral to take on debts to finance migration to Thailand, where low wages and insecure employment inhibit their ability to repay such debts. The traditional social welfare role of land as a safety net is superseded by the use of land as collateral to access microfinance loans, which are also commonly used to respond to livelihood shocks. In this financialised context, social protection schemes insufficiently address the combined livelihood risks that are assumed by workers and do not provide meaningful protection to workers. Drawing on field interviews, we argue that these various supposed sources of livelihood security rather act to increase precarity for workers, by exacerbating labour discipline and dependence on employers. Citation: Global Social Policy PubDate: 2024-06-18T12:04:18Z DOI: 10.1177/14680181241258062
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Authors:Deborah James Abstract: Global Social Policy, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Global Social Policy PubDate: 2024-06-18T11:05:10Z DOI: 10.1177/14680181241261439
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Citation: Global Social Policy PubDate: 2024-06-13T11:04:41Z DOI: 10.1177/14680181241261295
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Authors:Riya Raphael Abstract: Global Social Policy, Ahead of Print. Ethnographic insights into people’s working lives can help us envision social policy to build dignified workspaces. This article explores the interlinkages between work and social protection, by drawing attention to two dimensions of pheriwale’s everyday working lives: first, how they relate to their work, and second, how they are situated within the Indian welfare context. Pheriwale are a group of traders in Delhi, India, who collect and sell secondhand/used-clothes. Like much of the Indian workforce, pheriwale’s work is classified as ‘informal’, since they remain outside social security tied to formal employment, they largely rely on irregular flow of income and primarily belong to the lower-caste groups. Low-income groups in India are entitled to various welfare schemes; however, accessing and receiving these welfare benefits may not always be consistent or dependable. In Delhi, pheriwale have been trading used/secondhand clothes for almost a century and they are one of the visibly women-dominated trading groups in the city. This article builds on four months of qualitative fieldwork at pheriwale’s marketplace in West Delhi, between 2017 and 2019. By following pheriwale’s work experiences through the conceptual lens of relational autonomy, this study highlights two key findings. First, due to the nature of self-employment, pheriwale shared how they have relative control of time and energy in their working routines. Second, in the face of an unreliable welfare state, pheriwale rely on building familial means of social protection to sustain lives. Citation: Global Social Policy PubDate: 2024-06-11T05:28:50Z DOI: 10.1177/14680181241258050
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Authors:Meika Sternkopf, Gabriela de Carvalho, Johanna Fischer Abstract: Global Social Policy, Ahead of Print. The way in which international actors formulate proposals for reforming or establishing public social policies not only varies between different organisations but is also dependent on the policy field in question. This article compares the positions of two international organisations (IOs), the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), on the two related social policy fields of health and long-term care in Latin America. We apply qualitative document analysis to reports and strategy articles published by ECLAC and PAHO between 2000 and 2015. The analysis finds that despite some similar proposals by both organisations, there are also clear differences between their positions depending on the policy areas. While both organisations see the need to establish healthcare and long-term care as a human right, they have different ideas on targeted and universal approaches. Moreover, with long-term care as a new and emerging policy field, there is still much more variation in how the IOs address the topic, while proposals on healthcare are shaped by previous debates at international and regional levels. Citation: Global Social Policy PubDate: 2024-05-28T12:21:46Z DOI: 10.1177/14680181241254087
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Authors:Sarah Berens, Ida Bastiaens Abstract: Global Social Policy, Ahead of Print. Despite globalization’s distributional impacts, we know little about (potentially differential) tax preferences of trade winners and losers, especially within social classes. We assess tax burden preferences to sustain public good provision using a vignette experiment with randomized tax instruments in the context of a liberalizing economy. More specifically, we analyze data from an original, randomized household survey of 1008 individuals in Sao Paulo State, Brazil, in 2019. We study preferences for increases in personal income, value-added, or corporate income taxes to improve funding for the universal health care system after Brazil adopts its free trade deal with the European Union. Findings reveal that the trade-losing poor support progressive taxes, whereas the trade-winning poor favor regressive instruments. By dividing the poor, globalization may create a barrier against more progressive fiscal strategies in emerging economies. Citation: Global Social Policy PubDate: 2024-05-06T06:05:06Z DOI: 10.1177/14680181241246769
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Authors:Minh TN Nguyen, Helle Rydstrom, Jingyu Mao Abstract: Global Social Policy, Ahead of Print. This special issue explores the intertwining reconfigurations of labour and welfare in the Global South by bringing together eight empirical studies of different national and transnational contexts and three commentaries. It asks how Global South people and states alike have come to prioritize market logics as guiding principles for welfare systems, moving away from collective risk-pooling towards individual responsibility, and how this reorientation is connected to the restructuring of labour. In this introduction to the special issue, we discuss the genealogies of the social question and review the growing academic discussion on the changing landscape of welfare in the Global South. We then underscore how the contemporary social question is predominantly framed in the terms of people’s capacity for market participation in the specific empirical contexts discussed by our authors. The framing of the social question as such, and the accompanying solutions to it, we argue, disregards politics, political economy and social justice at the cost of the more urgent social question that confronts the increasingly asymmetrical power relations between labour and capital. Citation: Global Social Policy PubDate: 2024-04-29T09:19:35Z DOI: 10.1177/14680181241246767
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Authors:Zhen Jie Im, Caroline de la Porte, Elke Heins, Andrea Prontera, Dorota Szelewa Abstract: Global Social Policy, Ahead of Print. The EU aims for net carbon neutrality by 2050. Since industry contributes substantially to carbon emissions, reforms to decarbonise industry are necessary to achieve this goal. However, these reforms may entail labour market costs in the form of unemployment, which may necessitate social policies to mitigate them. Our article provides a novel contribution to the existing literature by developing a framework to classify how these policy responses may vary across EU Member States and it also suggests sources for these variations. We analyse the planned social policy responses of four countries – Denmark, Germany, Spain and Poland – by comparing the emphasis on social investment relative to compensation; the emphasis on social relative to industrial policy; and the extent to which social policy is targeted. Our findings suggest that Danish plans will rely primarily on social investment, whereas Poland will rely on compensation. In Germany, there is a greater emphasis on industrial policy, and Spain’s planned responses differ between policies targeted at coal miners and policies for other workers. Citation: Global Social Policy PubDate: 2024-04-27T09:24:14Z DOI: 10.1177/14680181241246763
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Authors:Aline Bartenstein Abstract: Global Social Policy, Ahead of Print. The EU has developed the narrative of a green and just transition with solidarity and fairness as core principles of the Green Deal. Given the EU’s transformative agenda, this article examines the meaning of climate solidarity in the EU’s political sphere. Because solidarity among EU member states remains a fuzzy concept that lacks political and legal clarity, this article begins by reflecting on the conceptual implications of European solidarity. Next, it examines how climate solidarity has evolved in the post-Paris discourse and also explores, via in-depth document analysis, the sense and purpose of solidarity in the Green Deal. In addition, this article illustrates how solidarity is discussed within two distinct contexts: the green transition (which is about decarbonizing the economy) and the Just Transition (which focuses on aspects of social change in relation to the green transition). Particular attention is paid to the coupling of solidarity with the ‘leave no one behind’ (LNOB) principle. I conclude that solidarity refers primarily to the relationship among member states in order to regulate their modes of intergovernmental cooperation; only recently has it begun to encompass social cohesion and intergenerational justice at the EU level. Citation: Global Social Policy PubDate: 2024-04-27T09:21:55Z DOI: 10.1177/14680181241246759
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Authors:Christopher Webb, Nandi Vanqa Mgijima Abstract: Global Social Policy, Ahead of Print. Across much of the South, digital technologies are increasingly central to the expansion of state social protection systems. Supported by major development agencies, many of these distributive technologies are developed and implemented by financial technology companies with the specific aim of accelerating financial inclusion. While researchers have documented the influence of these financial actors and logics over social policy, we know less about how these interventions are transforming the experience of receiving social protection. Based on qualitative and observational research with social grant recipients in South Africa, this research demonstrates how digital and financial technologies produce confusion, informational opacities and new forms of exclusion among grant recipients. It suggests that the increasingly prominent role of financial technologies in the delivery of social protection undermines state capacity and further entrenches the influence of neoliberal logics over social policy. Finally, the article suggests that these technologies may be transforming the nature of social citizenship in South Africa, undermining efforts to advance universal and redistributive social protection policies. Citation: Global Social Policy PubDate: 2024-04-26T08:16:13Z DOI: 10.1177/14680181241246771
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Authors:Francesco Laruffa, Frank Nullmeier Abstract: Global Social Policy, Ahead of Print. In this article, we study the political project promoted by the European Commission (EC) for tackling simultaneously socioeconomic and environmental issues. Based on a detailed analysis of the most relevant EC policy documents (adopted between 2000 and 2020) that explicitly articulate ecological and socioeconomic questions, we offer two contributions to the literature on eco-social policy. First, we identify the nature of what we call the ‘European Eco-Social Model’. This political project subordinates social-ecological goals to the economic rationality of growth, competitiveness and profits and de-politicizes the efforts to promote more sustainable societies and economies. Second, we show how the Commission is repositioning itself as a global leader in the transformation to sustainability, attempting to extend its particular eco-social model to the whole world. Overall, we argue that this ‘model’ is based on self-contradictory assumptions and cannot demonstrate how it should be able to solve problems of social inequality and climate change on a global level. Citation: Global Social Policy PubDate: 2024-04-25T11:12:57Z DOI: 10.1177/14680181241246935
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Authors:Anis Ben Brik Abstract: Global Social Policy, Ahead of Print. This article provides an analysis of social protection responses to the pandemic in Saudi Arabia with a focus on policies targeted at migrant workers. Using data from multiple pandemic-era policy tracking databases and other resources, we use a descriptive case study through the lens of comparative welfare regime theory to include a comprehensive set of social protection and labor market measures. We found that, in sum, the Saudi government expansively scaled up its social protection system in response to COVID-19 with 86 implemented social protection measures. Labor market policies in the form of wage subsidies, labor regulations, and activation measures were the most prevalent type of social protection responses used by the Saudi government, complemented by social assistance measures in the form of cash transfers, food, vouchers, utility, and financial obligation support. Social insurance measures such as paid sick leave, healthcare insurance, unemployment insurance schemes, and social security contributions were the least adopted. Despite its expansions, the Saudi social protection system continued to largely neglect non-citizens and migrant workers. Saudi social protection system must pivot toward the full inclusion of non-citizens and migrant workers. COVID-19 has highlighted systemic gaps in Saudi social protection systems. It has magnified some of the country’s critical social protection challenges, which can inform future crisis response and the development of social protection systems. Citation: Global Social Policy PubDate: 2024-01-18T07:05:58Z DOI: 10.1177/14680181231222392
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Authors:Ruth Jane Prince First page: 331 Abstract: Global Social Policy, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Global Social Policy PubDate: 2024-07-26T01:11:06Z DOI: 10.1177/14680181241261476
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