The Global Rise of Social Cash Transfers : How States and International Organizations Constructed a New Instrument for Combating Poverty.

This volume analyses the phenomenon of social cash transfers in the global South, providing a definitive and comprehensive overview of current practice.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Leisering, Lutz
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Oxford University Press USA - OSO, 2018.
Subjects:	Economic assistance > Developing countries. Economic development > Developing countries. Human security > Developing countries. Developing countries > Social policy. Economic assistance Economic development Human security Social policy Developing countries Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Cover; The Global Rise of Social Cash Transfers: How States and International Organizations Constructed a New Instrument for Combating Poverty; Copyright; Preface and Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1: Making Sense of a Quiet Revolution: The Global Rise of Social Assistance; 1.1 Social Cash Transfers: The Rise of an Unlikely Idea; 1.2 Research Questions; 1.3 New Data, Methods, and Indicators; 1.4 A New Theoretical Approach to Social Policy in Development Contexts; 1.5 A World Society Approach; 1.6 The Research Plan
Part I: Theories and Concepts2: Theorizing Social Policy in Development Contexts: A Recognition Approach; 2.1 Social Policy in Development Contexts: Challenges for Theorizing; Social Policy in Development Contexts: Same or Different?; Do Northern Theories 'Travel' to the South?; Pioneers of an Integrated North-South Theory of Social Policy; 2.2 Peeling the Onion: A Recognition Model of Social Policy; Layers of Social Recognition: An Onion Skin Model; Layer 1: Constructing Social Responsibility; Layer 2: Constructing Social Questions; Layer 3: Constructing Social Problems
Layer 4: Constructing Welfare InstitutionsFraming Social Policy; Defining the Social: Four Concepts; 2.3 Social Citizenship: T.H. Marshall Revisited; Defining Social Citizenship; (1) THE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY OF THE STATE; (2) THE SOCIAL QUESTION; (3) SOCIAL PROBLEMS AND POLICIES; (4) INSTITUTIONALIZATION; 2.4 Conceptualizing Universalism; 2.5 Measuring Social Security: From Theory to Empirical Analysis; 3: Basic Social Security: From Poor Relief to Social Assistance to Social Cash Transfers; 3.1 The Evolution of Basic Security: Nationalizing Poverty; Recognizing Poverty as a Social Problem
The Historical Evolution of Basic Income SecurityGeorg Simmel Revisited: The Socialization and Nationalization of Poverty; 3.2 What is Social Assistance? Conceptualizing Basic Income Security; Normative Models of Social Security; Normative Models of Basic Social Security; Defining a Minimum; Defining Social Cash Transfers; Alternative Political Concepts of Social Assistance; 3.3 Social Assistance: Contributing to Social Citizenship?; Social Assistance as Social Citizenship: Pros and Cons; T.H. Marshall: Social Assistance as Social Citizenship
3.4 Social Assistance in the Global North: Social Citizenship Achieved?Social Citizenship Achieved?; Classifying European Social Assistance Regimes; Part II: Mapping the Global Rise of Social Cash Transfers; 4: Models of Social Cash Transfers: Policy Proposals by International Organizations; 4.1 International Organizations: Adopting, Developing, and Disseminating Social Cash Transfers; 4.2 Conceptualizing Ideational Change in Global Arenas; 4.3 From Idea to Model(s): How International Organizations Constructed Global Models of Social Cash Transfers in the 2000s