Global Social Policy in the Making : The Foundations of the Social Protection Floor /

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In 2000, in the context of criticisms levelled at the negative social consequences of globalization, a call was made to establish a social floor under the global economy. The book tells the story of how that call became translated into practice in terms both of the ILO's decision in 2012 to cre...

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Autor principal: Deacon, Bob (auteur.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : The Policy Press, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social policy.
Policy sciences.
Globalization > Social aspects.
Mondialisation > Aspect social.
Politique sociale.
Livres numeriques.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Global social policy in the making
  • Contents
  • List of tables, figures and boxes
  • Tables
  • Figures
  • Boxes
  • List of abbreviations
  • About the author
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The global economic and social policy context
  • Introduction
  • The era of targeted safety nets
  • The struggle to re-establish universalism
  • The North-South progressive impasse
  • New universalism from below within the Global South
  • ILO and visions for extending social security
  • 3. The development of the SPF Recommendation
  • Introduction
  • From a benefit package to a set of guarantees
  • Only cash transfers or access to services also
  • From a global social floor to national SPFs
  • From a global social contract to national responsibility?
  • 4. The SPF, social dialogue and tripartite global governance in practice
  • Challenging path dependency
  • Steering the SPF through the ILCs
  • Conclusion
  • 5. The SPF and the struggle for global social policy synergy
  • Introduction
  • Working with the UN
  • Working with the G8 and G20
  • Working with the World Bank and the IMF
  • The new UN SPIAC-B
  • 6. Implications for understanding global social policy change
  • Recapitulation and explanation
  • Theories of global social policy change: towards the ASID framework
  • Using ASID to explain the SPF
  • Other theoretical considerations
  • 7. Reflections and prospects
  • Introduction
  • Assessing the SPF Recommendation
  • Would the SPF become embedded in the post-MDG UN development agenda?
  • The ongoing campaigns to implement SPFs
  • The proposal for a Global Fund for Social Protection
  • The implications for global social governance
  • Endnotes
  • References
  • Index.

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