Synopses & Reviews
Explores the conditions under which social policy operates in the poorer regions of the world.
Review
"...the book is serious in its intent, provocative in its theoretical discussion and wide ranging in its mult-perspectives. It should not only appeal to academics interested in classification but to those who are concerned with poverty and the problems of promoting human welfare in the developing countries. Additionally, it would make a thought-provoking text for a course on comparative social policy for graduate students in both the developed and developing worlds." - Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, Kwong-leung Tang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Synopsis
This book seeks to develop a new 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.
About the Author
Ian Gough is Professor of Social Policy at the University of Bath and Editor of the Journal of European Social Policy.Professor Geof Wood is Head of the Department of Economics and International Development and Director of the Institute for International Policy Analysis at the University of Bath.Armando Barrientos is Lecturer in Public Economics and Development at the Institute for Development and Management at the University of Manchester.Philippa Bevan is a Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology of Development at the University of Bath.Peter Davis is Lecturer in International Development at the University of Bath.Graham Room is Professor of European Social Policy at the University of Bath.
Table of Contents
Introduction Ian Gough and Geof Wood; Part I. Understanding Insecurity and Welfare Regimes in the South: An Analytical Framework: 1. Adapting welfare regimes to development contexts Ian Gough; 2. Informal security regimes: embedding social policy in the search for a secure institutional landscape Geof Wood; 3. Conceptualising in/security regimes Philippa Bevan; Part II. Regional Regimes: 4. Latin America: towards a liberal-informal welfare regime Armando Barrientos; 5. East Asia: the limits of productivist regimes Ian Gough; 6. The dynamics of Africa's in/security regimes Philippa Bevan; Part III. Regimes in Global Context: 7. Rethinking the welfare regime approach in the context of Bangladesh Peter Davis; 8. Multi-tiered international welfare systems Graham Room; Conclusion Geof Wood and Ian Gough.