Program
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Thursday, September 6
09.00-09.30 Arrival and registration
09.30-10.30 Welcome address
10.30-11.00 Coffee break
11.00-12.30 Roundtable - "Global social policy: challenges and prospects" organized by "Global Social Policy"
Chair: Nicola Yeates, Open University (UK)
Participants: Adebayo Olukoshi, CODESRIA (Senegal)
Huck-ju Kwon, Sung Kyun University (Korea)
Rosalia Cortes, FLACSO (Argentina)
Rama V. Baru, JNU (India)
Akbar Zaidi, Independent Researcher (Pakistan)
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-15.30 Parallel Sessions
a) Women, Children and Families: Rights, Risks and Welfare (Chair: Rianne Mahon)
b) International Actors in Social Policymaking (Chair: Robert O'Brien)
c) Mixing Public and Private Provision in Health Care (Chair: Rama Baru)
Parallel session (a) - Women, Children and Families: Rights, Risks and Welfare
Chair: Rianne Mahon
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Author(s) |
Title |
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Gran, Brian |
Do Children's Rights Improve Children's Welfare? |
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Kamerman, Sheila B. |
Social Protection for Children and their Families: A Global Review of Trends and Outcomes |
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Trifiletti, Rossana |
Social Policies Facing New Social Risks: Lone Parents from Northern to Southern Europe |
Parallel Session (b) - International Actors in Social Policymaking
Chair: Robert O'Brien
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Author(s) |
Title |
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Cortes, Rosalia |
Social Policy in the Post-Washington Consensus Era: The Role of International Organizations in Social Policy in Argentina and Brazil |
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Seeleib-Kaiser, Martin |
Rethinking Global Governance: Market Actors and Accountability |
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Sonmez, Sinan |
From "Semi-Peripherical Welfarism" to Neo-liberal Solutions. What About New Perspectives? - Developing World and Turkey |
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Kamruzzaman, Palash |
Who Cares about Participation? All Is Needed Another Piece of to Continue Debts and Loans |
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Ejembi, E. P, Naswem |
Nigerian Agricultural Development Strategies and the Global Connection: Social Relevance and Sustainability |
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Guliyev, Rufat |
International Investments and Social Policy |
Parallel Session (c) - Mixing Public and Private Provision in Health Care
Chair: Rama Baru
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Author(s) |
Title |
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Chee, Heng Leng |
The Effects of Private Healthcare and Medical Tourism on Health Care Access: A Comparison between Two Southeast Asian Countries |
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Gingrich, Jane |
Divergent Neo-Liberalism: Building Welfare States in an Era of Markets |
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Schiller, Christof |
Health Policy in a Globalizing World |
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Wendt, Claus |
Patterns of Trust in Health Care Institutions |
15.30-16.00 Coffee break
16.00-18.00 Plenary Session - Welfare Scenarios Across the Globe
Chair: Ian Gough
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Author(s) |
Title |
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Adesina, Jimi O. |
In Search of Inclusive Development: Social Policy in the Sub-Sahara African Context |
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Cook, Sarah |
Economic Development and Social Protection in East Asia |
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Draibe, Sônia M. |
Latin America: a New Social Agenda in the Making? |
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Xiulan, Zhang |
The Role of Family in Social Protection: Evidence from China |
18.00 End of the First day
19.00 Reception offered by the Mayor of Florence and "Global Social Policy" - Palazzo Vecchio
Friday, September 7
8.00-9.00 PhD Mentoring Sessions
Session 1
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Phd Student |
Title |
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Kodate , Nao |
Unpacking Institutional Logics in Healthcare Policy Change: Hospital Reforms in England, Japan and Sweden. |
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Romano, Serena |
Public-private Partnerships and Global Health Coalitions as Global Means of Social Inclusions. |
Session 2
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Phd Student |
Title |
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Van Driel, Maria |
The Nature of Social Protection in Post Apartheid South Africa. |
9.00-10.30 Plenary Session - Comparing Welfare Reforms in Europe
Chair: Walter Korpi
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Author(s) |
Title |
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Hemerijck, Anton |
Recasting the Post War Social Contract |
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Palier, Bruno |
A Long Good Bye to Bismarck? The Politics of Welfare Reforms in Continental Europe |
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Petmesidou, Maria |
Dynamics of the Welfare Mix in South Europe |
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Brennan, Deborah |
Demography and public policy in Australia: policy responses to declining fertility in Australia |
10.30-11.00 Coffee break
11.00-12.30 Parallel Sessions
a) Globalizing Ideas in Social Policy (Chair: Sheila Shaver)
b) Welfare outcomes (Chair: John Myles)
c) Social Policy across the Regions of the World (Chair: Jean Claude Barbier)
Parallel Session (a) - Globalizing Ideas in Social Policy
Chair: Sheila Shaver
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Author(s) |
Title |
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Béland, Daniel |
Ideas, Globalization, and Policy Change: A Sociological and Political Perspective |
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Humpage, Louise |
Globalising Policy Discourses and Indigenous Peoples in New Zealand and Australia: Lessons to the 'South' from the 'North' (and vice versa)? |
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Lendvai, Noémi |
Post-Colonial Dialogue or His Masters Voice? Translating the periphery in 'Global Social Policy' studies |
Parallel Session (b) - Welfare outcomes
Chair: John Myles
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Author(s) |
Title |
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Ginneken, Wouter van |
Social Security and the Global Socio-economic Floor: Towards a Human Rights Based Approach |
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Gangl, Markus |
Is High Inequality Offset by Mobility? A Comparison of Germany, Sweden, and the United States |
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Kremer, Monique |
Meeting and Mobility. Ethnic Diversity in the Dutch Welfare State |
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Onyeonoru, Ifeanyi P. |
North-South Social Structural Disparities |
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Martin, Isaac |
Do Visible Taxes Cause Protest? Tax Institutions and Tax Protest in Rich Democracies |
Parallel Session (c) - Social Policy accross the Regions of the World
Chair: Jean Claude Barbier
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Author(s) |
Title |
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Abrahamson, Peter |
International Organization Recommendations and the Prospects for Social Citizenship? the Case of Central America |
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Gudavarthy, Ajay |
Trans-National Policy Making:Towards Tri-Continental Perspective |
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O'Connor, JS |
Socio-Economic Convergence in the European Union in the Context of Differences Across Policy Domains and the Power Relations within and between European Institutions |
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Abrahamson, Peter |
Fiscal Policy in Small States: Comparing Scandinavia and Central America |
12.30-13.30 Lunch - RC19 Board Meeting Lunch
13.30-15.30 Parallel Sessions
a) Care Services, Care Workers (Chair: Valeria Fargion)
b) Ideas, International Actors and Social Policy (Chair: Wim van Oorschot)
c) Gender, Social Policy and Labour Markets (Chair: Sheila Kamerman)
Parallel Session (a) - Care Services, Care Workers
Chair: Valeria Fargion
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Author(s) |
Title |
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León, Margarita |
Public and Private Responses to Ageism: 'Proximity Services' and Domestic Care Work of Migrant Women, the Case of Spain |
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Morel, Nathalie |
From Subsidiarity to "Free Choice": Child- and Elderly-Care Policy Reforms in France, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. |
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Szelewa, Dorota |
Three Faces of Familialism: Comparing Family Policies in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland |
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Wang, Shu-Yung |
Trends and Factors of Childcare Policy Variations in an Era of Globalization |
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Hiraoka, Koichi |
The Formation and Reorganization of the System of Long-Term Care Services in Japan: From the 1980s to the Present |
Parallel Session (b) - Ideas, International Actors and Social Policy
Chair: Wim van Oorschot
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Author(s) |
Title |
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Agartan, Tuba I. |
Turkish Health Policy in a Globalizing World: The case of ‘Transformation of Health’ Program |
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Kaasch, Alexandra |
Overlapping and competing agencies in global health governance. WHO, World Bank, and OECD in the guidance of national health care systems |
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Mahon, Rianne |
Learning, Forgetting, Rediscovery: Producing The OECD’s ‘New’ Family Policy |
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O'Brien, Robert |
South - North Global Labour Policy |
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Mahon, Rianne |
Reconciling Work and Family Life: Gendering The OECD's Social Policy Discourse |
Parellel Session (c) - Gender, Social Policy and Labour Markets
Chair: Sheila Kemerman
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Author(s) |
Title |
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Korpi, Walter |
The Nordic Gender Paradise Lost? Gender Inequalities in Employment, Work Segregation, Wages, and Political Representation in Different Types of Welfare States |
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Montanari, Ingalill |
Flexibility and Individualization - Two Salient Trends within the European Union Leading to Improvements in Gender Equality? Women and Market Work in Comparative Perspective |
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Won, Si Yeon |
Long-Term Care Policy in South Korea and Japan: From a Gender Perspective |
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Budowski, Monica |
Comparison of the Two Reformed Models of Old-Age Security in Chile and Costa Rica: is one more gender friendly (or gender neutral) than another? |
15.30-16.00 Coffee break
16.00-18.00 Plenary Session - Theorizing Comparisons across North and South
Chair: Joachim Palme
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Author(s) |
Title |
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Destremau, Blandine |
Contribution to a Comparative Framework of Social Protection Systems in Developing Countries |
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Gough, Ian |
Policy Regimes and Wellbeing: a Comparative Analysis |
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Haan, Arjan de |
Reclaiming Social Policy: Social Spending in Low Income Countries Reconsidered |
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Esser, Ingrid |
A Framework for Comparing Social Protection in Developing Countries with the Example of Child Benefits |
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Mudge, Stephanie |
Rethinking the New Politics: Political Neoliberalism and the European Center-Left |
18.00-19.00 General Assembly of RC19
19.00 End of the Second day
20.30 Buffet Dinner in Palazzo Medici-Riccardi offered by the Province of Florence
Saturday, September 8
08.00-09.00 PhD Mentoring Sessions
Session 1
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Phd Student |
Title |
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Dorrity, Claire |
The Under-representation of Immigrants in Irish Social Policy Formation. |
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Kesler, Christel |
Poverty among Immigrant Newcomers: Assessing the Roles of Market, State and Family. |
Session 2
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Phd Student |
Title |
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Grinvalds, Holly |
Labour Market Policy and the Influence of OECD Ideas: Canada and Denmark Compared. |
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Häusermann, Silja |
Coalitional Dynamics as Drivers of "Gradual Transformative Policy Change" in Continental Welfare States. |
09.00-10.30 Round table of contributions from International organizations
Chair: Bob Deacon
Participants: David Parker, UNICEF Innocenti Research Center: "UNICEF's Approach to Economic and Social Policy"
Favio Veras, UNDP-Poverty Centre, Brazil: "Cash Transfers and Social Protection"
Timo Voipio, OECD - DAC and ISSA: "Comprehensive Social Policies for Development"
10.30-11.00 Coffee break
11.00-13.00 Parallel sessions
a) Values, Ideas and Institutions (Chair: Ana Guillen)
b) Safety Nets, Conditionality and Poverty (Chair: Sônia Draibe)
c) Social Policy Responses to East Asia's Economic Growth, Globalization, and Crisis (Chair: Huck-Ju Kwon)
Parallel Session (a) - Values, Ideas and Institutions
Chair: Ana Guillen
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Author(s) |
Title |
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Birchfield Vicki |
Patterns of Income Inequality in the Capitalist Core: The Role of Values and Institutions and Lessons for the Global South |
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Larsen, Christian Albrekt |
The Institutional Logic of Welfare Attitudes: How Welfare Regimes Influence Public Support |
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Wodsak, Veronika (PhD) |
Change and Continuity in the World Bank's Approach to Old Age Security |
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Blomqvist, Paula |
Idea Diffusion and Agenda-setting in Social Policy: Health Care Reform in the Netherlands and Sweden in the 1990s |
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Ploug, Niels |
Welfare Values and Individualisation |
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Stryker, Robin |
Redefining Compassion to Reform Welfare: How Supporters of 1990s US Federal Welfare Reform Aimed for the Moral High Ground |
Parallel Session (b) - Safety Nets, Conditionality and Poverty
Chair: Sonia Draibe
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Author(s) |
Title |
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Bastagli, Francesca |
From Social Safety Net to Social Policy? The Role of Conditional Cash Transfers in Welfare State Development in Latin America |
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Moreno, Luis |
Safety Nets in Latin America: Targeting and Universalism? |
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Nelson, Kenneth |
Minimum Income Protection and European Integration: Trends and Levels of Minimum Benefits in Comparative Perspective 1990-2005 |
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Redmond, Gerry |
The impact of cash transfers on child well-being in Central Asia and Eastern Europe |
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Qabaja, Anwar |
Poverty Indicators in Palestine |
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Gulcubuk, Bulent |
The Impact of Globalization on Rural Poor in Turkey: The Case of Social Risk Mitigation Project |
Parallel Session (c) - Social Policy Responses to East Asia's Economic Growth, Globalization and Crisis
Chair: Huck-Ju Kwon
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Author(s) |
Title |
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Peng, Ito |
Welfare State Restructuring in South Korea: a Political Economic Perspective |
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Lee, Eliza W.Y. |
The Neoliberal Turn in Social Policy and Implications for the Development of Social and Political Citizenship in Hong Kong |
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Lue, Peter Jen-der |
Can the Variety of Capitalism Approach explain the Social Policy Transition in East-Asia?: Taiwan and South-Korea Compared |
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Walker, Robert |
Giants Old and New: Promoting Social Security and Economic Growth in the Asia and Pacific Region |
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Lee, HyeKyung |
Globalization, Democratization and Social Investment State: Post-Crisis Korea's Choice of Inclusive Liberalist Solution |
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-16.00 Parallel Sessions
a) Migration and Social Policy (Chair: Luis Moreno)
b) Transforming Welfare across the Globe (Chair: Jimi Adesina)
c) Social protection, markets and health care (Chair: Xiulan Zhangh)
Parallel session (a) - Migration and Social Policy
Chair: Luis Moreno
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Author(s) |
Title |
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Gal, John |
Immigration and the Categorical Welfare State in Israel |
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Hettige, S.T. |
Fighting Poverty in Low Income Countries: The Case of Sri Lanka |
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Laparra Navarro, Miguel |
Migration and Social Policy in Europe |
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Williams, Fiona |
How Do We Theorise the Employment of Migrant Women in Home-Based Care Work in European Welfare States? |
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Ramazyan, Hripsime |
Migration and the New Social Order |
Parallel Session (b) - Transforming Welfare across the Globe
Chair: Jimi Adesina
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Author(s) |
Title |
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Kangas, Olli |
Impacts of Colonialization and Modernization on the Timing of Social Insurance in Africa |
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Olsen, Gregg M. |
Toward Global Welfare State Convergence? Labour Market Policy and Old Age Policy in Sweden, Canada and the US |
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Polakowski, Michal (PhD) |
A Comparative Study of Social Policy Institutional Characteristics in Central and Eastern Europe |
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Szalai, Julia |
Challenges to the “Convergence Thesis”: Some Notes on the Formation of the Postcommunist Welfare State |
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Guogis, Arvydas |
On Lithuanian Social Policy Model |
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Marston, Greg |
The Social Division of Welfare Surveillance |
Parallel Session (c) - Social Protection, Markets and Health Care
Chair: Xiulan Zhangh
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Author(s) |
Title |
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Biswas, Gargi |
Market and State in Health Services : The Case of India and China |
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Cook, Beth |
Lessons and Options for Universal Health Coverage with Special Reference to Privatisation Policies in Health Care: the Case of Australia and Ghana |
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Baru, Rama V. |
Blurring of Boundaries: The Mixed Economy In Health Services in India |
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Sivaramakrishnan, Kavita |
Change and Continuity in the politics of Plague Epidemics: Public Health Policies and Practice in India |
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Deshpande, Mita |
Through the Lens of Universality: Perceptions on Dignity, Trust and Exclusion in the Era of Health Sector Reforms |
16.00-16.30 Coffee break
16.30-18.00 Plenary Session - Culture and Social Citizenship
Chair: Ann Orloff
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Author(s) |
Title |
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Barbier, Jean-Claude |
When Research and Politics Mingle and Converge to Forget Cultural Diversity in Welfare Systems: Lessons from the Collapse of 'Social Europe' |
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Jenson, Jane |
Redesigning Citizenship Regimes After Neoliberalism. Ideas About Social Investment. |
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Shaver, Sheila |
Culture, Multiculturalism and Welfare State Citizenship |
18.00 End of the Conference