The Politics of Non-state Social Welfare /

The Politics of Non-state Social Welfare / / ed. by Melani Cammett, Lauren M. MacLean.

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Across the world, welfare states are under challenge (or were never developed extensively in the first place) while non-state actors increasingly provide public goods and basic welfare. In many parts of the Middle East and South Asia, sectarian organizations and political parties supply basic servic...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
MitwirkendeR:
Allard, Scott W.,
Brass, Jennifer N.,
Cammett, Melani,
Cook, Linda J.,
Gough, Ian,
Jennings, Michael,
Krishna, Anirudh,
Luong, Pauline Jones,
MacLean, Lauren M.,
Mizala, Alejandra,
Post, Alison E.,
Schneider, Ben Ross,
HerausgeberIn:
Cammett, Melani,
MacLean, Lauren M.,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (328 p.) :; 23 tables, 6 charts
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Mapping Social Welfare Regimes beyond the OECD
  • 2. The Political Consequences of Non-state Social Welfare: An Analytical Framework
  • Part I States, Non-state Social Welfare, and Citizens in the Developing World
  • 3. Empowering Local Communities and Enervating the State? Foreign Oil Companies as Public Goods Providers in Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan
  • 4. The Politics of "Contracting Out" to the Private Sector: Water and Sanitation in Argentina
  • 5. Blurring the Boundaries: NGOs, the State, and Service Provision in Kenya
  • 6. Bridging the Local and the Global: Faith-Based Organizations as Non-state Providers in Tanzania
  • 7. Sectarian Politics and Social Welfare: Non-state Provision in Lebanon
  • 8. The Reciprocity of Family, Friends, and Neighbors in Rural Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire
  • 9. The Naya Netas : Informal Mediators of Government Services in Rural North India
  • Part II The Politics of Non-state Social Welfare in Emerging Markets and the Industrialized World
  • 10. Private Provision with Public Funding: The Challenges of Regulating Quasi Markets in Chilean Education
  • 11. "Spontaneous Privatization" and Its Political Consequences in Russia's Postcommunist Health Sector
  • 12. State Dollars, Non-state Provision: Local Nonprofi t Welfare Provision in the United States
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Contributors
  • Index

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