Transformations in Global and Regional Social Policies

✍ Scribed by Alexandra Kaasch, Paul Stubbs (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Leaves: 243
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Global and Regional Social Policy Transformations: Contextualizing the Contribution of Bob Deacon....Pages 1-16
The Socialization of Regionalism and the Regionalization of Social Policy: Contexts, Imperatives, and Challenges....Pages 17-43
Global Economic Downturn and Social Protection in East Asia: Pathways of Global and Local Interactions....Pages 44-64
Common Health Policy Interests and the Politics of Rights, Regulation, and Redistribution....Pages 65-84
Global Social Justice, Ethics, and the Crisis of Care....Pages 85-107
Climate Change, Social Policy, and Global Governance....Pages 108-133
Poverty and Climate Change: The Three Tasks of Transformative Global Social Policy....Pages 134-152
Antagonism and Accommodation: The Labor-IMF/World Bank Relationship....Pages 153-174
Grasping the Social Impact of Global Social Policy: How Neo-liberal Policies Have Influenced Social Action in Morocco....Pages 175-200
Toward a Transformative Global Social Policy?....Pages 201-217
Back Matter....Pages 218-223

✦ Subjects

Political Sociology; Social Policy; Politics of the Welfare State; Social Structure, Social Inequality; Comparative Politics; Sociology, general

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