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

by Leisering, Lutz

• ISBN13: 9780198754336
• ISBN10: 0198754337
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780192568328
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2019-02-06
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Lutz Leisering, Professor of Social Policy, Bielefeld University

Lutz Leisering is Professor of Social Policy in the Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University, Germany, and founding member of the Institute for World Society Studies. He has published empirical, theoretical, and comparative studies of social policy in Europe and the global South, especially on old-age security, social assistance, global social policy, and the global diffusion of ideas. His publications include German Social Policy (5 volumes, Springer, 2013), The New Regulatory State: Regulating Pensions in Germany and the UK (Edited, Palgrave, 2011), and Time and Poverty in Western Welfare States: United Germany in Perspective (CUP, 1999).

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Making Sense of a Quiet Revolution-the Global Rise of Social Assistance
Part I: Theories and Concepts
2. Theorizing Social Policy in Development Contexts: A Constructivist Approach
3. Basic Social Security: From Poor Relief to Social Assistance to Social Cash Transfers
Part II: Mapping the Global Rise of Social Cash Transfers
4. Models of Social Cash Transfers: Policy Proposals by International Organizations, Lutz Leisering with Moritz von Gliszczynski
5. Social Cash Transfers in the Global South: An Entitlement Revolution, Lutz Leisering with Katrin Weible
6. Case Study: Social Pensions in the Global South, Lutz Leisering with Tobias Boger
Part III: Explaining the Global Rise of Social Cash Transfers
7. Changing Global Discourses: New Reasons for Social Security, Lutz Leisering with Moritz von Gliszczynski
8. National and International Drivers of the Spread of Social Cash Transfers, Lutz Leisering with Tobias Boger
Part IV: Social Cash Transfers-Past, Present, and Future
9. Social Cash Transfers for the Poor-Achievements, Limitations, Backgrounds
10. Towards a Theory of Social Assistance
11. The Quest for Universalism
Appendix 1
Appendix 2