Introduction: Political economy
- Designing a social protection system is of course not only a technical exercise but a very political affair. A systems approach to social protection is shaped by the political elites and the respective coalitions of change, the political institutions as well as the political system of a country. This explains why also seemingly similar countries in terms of their risk profile, poverty situation and economic situation can adopt very different social protection systems or make very different progress with respect to social protection expansion. Not only are the established welfare states of the Global North but also the nascent social protection systems in the Global South a testimony of this variety.
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| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
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| Language: | English |
| Author: | Esther Schüring |
| Parent Title (English): | Schüring, Loewe (Eds.): Handbook on Social Protection Systems |
| Number of pages: | 2 |
| First Page: | 489 |
| Last Page: | 490 |
| ISBN: | 978-1-83910-911-9 |
| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:1044-opus-58099 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839109119.00064 |
| Publisher: | Edward Elgar Publishing |
| Place of publication: | Cheltenham, UK |
| Publishing Institution: | Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg |
| Date of first publication: | 2021/08/10 |
| Departments, institutes and facilities: | Fachbereich Sozialpolitik und Soziale Sicherung |
| Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC): | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 36 Soziale Probleme, Sozialdienste / 361 Soziale Probleme und Sozialhilfe im Allgemeinen |
| Entry in this database: | 2021/08/20 |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - CC BY-NC-ND - Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell - Keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International |
