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AFRICA TOWARD 2030
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Concepts, Causes and Policy
Jens Stilhoff Sörensen ( editor )
CHALLENGING THE AID PARADIGM
Western Currents and Asian Alternatives
Andy Sumner and Meera Tiwari
AFTER 2015: INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT POLICY AT A CROSSROADS
Anthony Ware (e ditor )
DEVELOPMENT IN DIFFICULT SOCIOPOLITICAL CONTEXTS
Fragile, Failed, Pariah
Katie Wright
INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION, DEVELOPMENT AND HUMAN WELLBEING
Moritz von Gliszczynski
CASH TRANFERS AND BASIC SOCIAL PROTECTION
Towards a Development Revolution?
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Towards a Development Revolution?
Moritz von Gliszczynski
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Gliszczynski, Moritz von, 1983–
Cash transfers and basic social protection : towards a development
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Includes bibliographical references.
1. Transfer payments – Developing countries. 2. Economic assistance,
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Contents
List of Illustrations v iii
Acknowledgements ix
List of Abbreviations x
Introduction 1
I.1 Perspective, scope and aim of this book 5
1 Theory: A Multi-level Analysis of Global Policy Ideas 7
1.1 Ideational approaches in political science 8
1.2 Sociological discourse analysis 13
1.3 World society theory 17
1.4 Analytical framework 20
1.5 Guiding questions 24
1.6 Methods 26
2 Constructing Global Models of Cash Transfers (2000–2012) 27
2.1 The idea of social cash transfers 28
2.1.1 Semantics 28
2.1.2 Design features 30
2.1.3 Effects 33
2.2 H ow to make a global model – four variants of
cash transfers 36
2.2.1 Family allowances: the globalisation of a
Northern model 36
2.2.2 Conditional cash transfers: strategic uptake
of innovative national models in the
Global South 42
2.2.3 Social pensions: creating a global model through
focused advocacy 48
2.2.4 General household assistance: from archetype
of SCT to weak policy model 52
2.3 Alternative models of basic social protection 60
2.3.1 Public employment programmes 61
2.3.2 Near-cash transfers 63
2.3.3 Universal basic income and social cash transfers 64
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3 Social Protection as a Paradigm of Development
Policy (1990–2000) 67
3.1 Conceptual prelude: paradigms on the global level 67
3.2 T he web of ideas in its current state – problem
definitions, frames and policy community 69
3.2.1 Problem of definitions 69
3.2.2 Frames 80
3.2.3 Policy community 85
3.3 The historical emergence of the web of ideas 89
3.3.1 The socialisation of global policy (1990–2000) 90
3.3.2 Policy development (2000–2008) 96
3.3.3 Global consensus (2008–today) 100
4 Global Discourses: The Ideas behind Cash Transfers 104
4.1 Poverty: the construction of agency 105
4.1.1 Problem definition 105
4.1.2 Causes 109
4.1.3 Consequences 110
4.1.4 Victims 111
4.1.5 Solutions 112
4.1.6 Social responsibility 114
4.1.7 Historical analysis 115
4.2 Development: the individualisation of progress 124
4.2.1 Process 125
4.2.2 Goals 126
4.2.3 Means 130
4.2.4 Agents 130
4.2.5 The impact of development discourse
on SCT 131
4.2.6 Historical analysis 135
4.3 Risk: the discovery of uncertainty 139
4.3.1 Environmental constant 140
4.3.2 Causes 145
4.3.3 Consequences 146
4.3.4 Victims 146
4.3.5 Solutions 148
4.3.6 Historical analysis 149
4.4 Human rights: the rise of social rights 158
4.4.1 Moral code 160
4.4.2 Policy imperative 162
4.4.3 Claimants 163
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4.4.4 Social responsibility 165
4.4.5 Obstacles 166
4.4.6 Instruments 166
4.4.7 Historical analysis 169
4.5 Discourse coalitions and discursive practices 179
Conclusion 183
List of Sources 191
Index 205
List of Illustrations
Figures
1.1 A multi-level framework of policy analysis 2 2
C.1 The discursive background of social cash transfers 1 84
Tables
2.1 A chronology of basic social protection policy 2 9
2.2 Policy models 37
3.1 Problem definitions 70
3.2 Frames 80
4.1 Phenomenon structure of poverty discourse 1 06
4.2 Phenomenon structure of development discourse 1 26
4.3 Phenomenon structure of the discourse on risk and crises 1 41
4.4 Phenomenon structure of human rights discourse 1 59
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Acknowledgements
My research into cash transfers was funded by the German Research
Foundation (DFG) as part of the FLOOR research group at Bielefeld
University.
This book would not have been written without the support of many
dear colleagues and friends.
First and foremost, I thank Lutz Leisering for long years of sage advice
and guidance, first as my teacher, then as my supervisor. Without him,
this book would not have been possible.
I am equally indebted to my colleagues in the FLOOR research group,
especially Michael Leutelt, Katrin Weible, John Berten, Tobias Böger and
Elsbe Lück. I could not have wished for better co-workers and friends.
Last but not least, I am grateful to my family, for believing in me even
at times when I found it hard to do so myself.
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