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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
| Author(s) | Title | 
| Gran, Brian | Do Children's Rights Improve Children's Welfare?  | 
| Kamerman, Sheila B.  | Social Protection for Children and their Families: A Global Review of Trends and Outcomes  | 
| 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
| Author(s) | Title | 
| Cortes, Rosalia | Social Policy in the Post-Washington Consensus Era: The Role of International Organizations in Social Policy in Argentina and Brazil  | 
| Seeleib-Kaiser, Martin  | Rethinking Global Governance: Market Actors and Accountability  | 
| Sonmez, Sinan | From "Semi-Peripherical Welfarism" to Neo-liberal Solutions. What About New Perspectives? - Developing World and Turkey  | 
| Kamruzzaman, Palash | Who Cares about Participation? All Is Needed Another Piece of  to Continue Debts and Loans  | 
| Ejembi, E. P, Naswem  | Nigerian Agricultural Development Strategies and the Global Connection: Social Relevance and Sustainability  | 
| Guliyev, Rufat  | International Investments and Social Policy  | 
Parallel Session (c) - Mixing Public and Private Provision in Health Care 
 Chair: Rama Baru
| Author(s) | Title | 
| Chee, Heng Leng | The Effects of Private Healthcare and Medical Tourism on Health Care Access: A Comparison between Two Southeast Asian Countries  | 
| Gingrich, Jane | Divergent Neo-Liberalism: Building Welfare States in an Era of Markets  | 
| Schiller, Christof  | Health Policy in a Globalizing World  | 
| 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
| Author(s) | Title | 
| Adesina, Jimi O. | In Search of Inclusive Development: Social Policy in the Sub-Sahara African Context  | 
| Cook, Sarah  | Economic Development and Social Protection in East Asia  | 
| Draibe, Sônia M.  | Latin America: a New Social Agenda in the Making?  | 
| 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
8.00-9.00 PhD Mentoring Sessions
Session 1
| Phd Student | Title | 
| Kodate , Nao | Unpacking Institutional Logics in Healthcare Policy Change: Hospital Reforms in England, Japan and Sweden.  | 
| Romano, Serena | Public-private Partnerships and Global Health Coalitions as Global Means of Social Inclusions.  | 
Session 2
| Phd Student | Title | 
| 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
| Author(s) | Title | 
| Hemerijck, Anton | Recasting the Post War Social Contract  | 
| Palier, Bruno | A Long Good Bye to Bismarck? The Politics of Welfare Reforms in Continental Europe  | 
| Petmesidou, Maria  | Dynamics of the Welfare Mix in South Europe  | 
| 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
| Author(s) | Title | 
| Béland, Daniel | Ideas, Globalization, and Policy Change: A Sociological and Political Perspective  | 
| Humpage, Louise | Globalising Policy Discourses and Indigenous Peoples in New Zealand and Australia: Lessons to the 'South' from the 'North' (and vice versa)?  | 
| 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
| Author(s) | Title | 
| Ginneken, Wouter van | Social Security and the Global Socio-economic Floor: Towards a Human Rights Based Approach  | 
| Gangl, Markus  | Is High Inequality Offset by Mobility? A Comparison of Germany, Sweden, and the United States  | 
| Kremer, Monique | Meeting and Mobility. Ethnic Diversity in the Dutch Welfare State  | 
| Onyeonoru, Ifeanyi P. | North-South Social Structural Disparities  | 
| 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
| Author(s) | Title | 
| Abrahamson, Peter | International Organization Recommendations and the Prospects for Social Citizenship? the Case of Central America  | 
| Gudavarthy, Ajay | Trans-National Policy Making:Towards Tri-Continental Perspective  | 
| 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  | 
| 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
| Author(s) | Title | 
| León, Margarita | Public and Private Responses to Ageism: 'Proximity Services' and Domestic Care Work of Migrant Women, the Case of Spain  | 
| Morel, Nathalie | From Subsidiarity to "Free Choice": Child- and Elderly-Care Policy Reforms in France, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands.  | 
| Szelewa, Dorota | Three Faces of Familialism: Comparing Family Policies in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland  | 
| Wang, Shu-Yung | Trends and Factors of Childcare Policy Variations in an Era of Globalization  | 
| 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
| Author(s) | Title | 
| Agartan, Tuba I. | Turkish Health Policy in a Globalizing World: The case of ‘Transformation of Health’ Program  | 
| Kaasch, Alexandra | Overlapping and competing agencies in global health governance. WHO, World Bank, and OECD in the guidance of national health care systems  | 
| Mahon, Rianne | Learning, Forgetting, Rediscovery: Producing The OECD’s ‘New’ Family Policy  | 
| O'Brien, Robert | South - North Global Labour Policy  | 
| 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
| Author(s) | Title | 
| Korpi, Walter  | The Nordic Gender Paradise Lost? Gender Inequalities in Employment, Work Segregation, Wages, and Political Representation in Different Types of Welfare States  | 
| 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  | 
| Won, Si Yeon | Long-Term Care Policy in South Korea and Japan: From a Gender Perspective  | 
| 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
| Author(s) | Title | 
| Destremau, Blandine | Contribution to a Comparative Framework of Social Protection Systems in Developing Countries  | 
| Gough, Ian | Policy Regimes and Wellbeing: a Comparative Analysis  | 
| Haan, Arjan de | Reclaiming Social Policy: Social Spending in Low Income Countries Reconsidered  | 
| Esser, Ingrid  | A Framework for Comparing Social Protection in Developing Countries with the Example of Child Benefits  | 
| 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
08.00-09.00 PhD Mentoring Sessions
Session 1
| Phd Student | Title | 
| Dorrity, Claire | The Under-representation of Immigrants in Irish Social Policy Formation.  | 
| Kesler, Christel | Poverty among Immigrant Newcomers: Assessing the Roles of Market, State and Family.  | 
Session 2
| Phd Student | Title | 
| Grinvalds, Holly | Labour Market Policy and the Influence of OECD Ideas: Canada and Denmark Compared.  | 
| 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
| Author(s) | Title | 
| Birchfield Vicki  | Patterns of Income Inequality in the Capitalist Core: The Role of Values and Institutions and Lessons for the Global South  | 
| Larsen, Christian Albrekt | The Institutional Logic of Welfare Attitudes: How Welfare Regimes Influence Public Support  | 
| Wodsak, Veronika (PhD) | Change and Continuity in the World Bank's Approach to Old Age Security  | 
| Blomqvist, Paula | Idea Diffusion and Agenda-setting in Social Policy: Health Care Reform in the Netherlands and Sweden in the 1990s  | 
| Ploug, Niels  | Welfare Values and Individualisation  | 
| 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
| Author(s) | Title | 
| Bastagli, Francesca | From Social Safety Net to Social Policy? The Role of Conditional Cash Transfers in Welfare State Development in Latin America  | 
| Moreno, Luis | Safety Nets in Latin America: Targeting and Universalism?  | 
| Nelson, Kenneth | Minimum Income Protection and European Integration: Trends and Levels of Minimum Benefits in Comparative Perspective 1990-2005  | 
| Redmond, Gerry  | The impact of cash transfers on child well-being in Central Asia and Eastern Europe  | 
| Qabaja, Anwar | Poverty Indicators in Palestine  | 
| 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
| Author(s) | Title | 
| Peng, Ito | Welfare State Restructuring in South Korea: a Political Economic Perspective  | 
| Lee, Eliza W.Y. | The Neoliberal Turn in Social Policy and Implications for the Development of Social and Political Citizenship in Hong Kong  | 
| Lue, Peter Jen-der | Can the Variety of Capitalism Approach explain the Social Policy Transition in East-Asia?: Taiwan and South-Korea Compared  | 
| Walker, Robert  | Giants Old and New: Promoting Social Security and Economic Growth in the Asia and Pacific Region  | 
| 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
| Author(s) | Title | 
| Gal, John | Immigration and the Categorical Welfare State in Israel  | 
| Hettige, S.T. | Fighting Poverty in Low Income Countries: The Case of Sri Lanka  | 
| Laparra Navarro, Miguel | Migration and Social Policy in Europe  | 
| Williams, Fiona | How Do We Theorise the Employment of Migrant Women in Home-Based Care Work in European Welfare States?  | 
| Ramazyan, Hripsime  | Migration and the New Social Order  | 
Parallel Session (b) - Transforming Welfare across the Globe 
 Chair: Jimi Adesina
| Author(s) | Title | 
| Kangas, Olli | Impacts of Colonialization and Modernization on the Timing of Social Insurance in Africa  | 
| Olsen, Gregg M. | Toward Global Welfare State Convergence? Labour Market Policy and Old Age Policy in Sweden, Canada and the US  | 
| Polakowski, Michal (PhD) | A Comparative Study of Social Policy Institutional Characteristics in Central and Eastern Europe  | 
| Szalai, Julia | Challenges to the “Convergence Thesis”: Some Notes on the Formation of the Postcommunist Welfare State  | 
| Guogis, Arvydas | On Lithuanian Social Policy Model  | 
| Marston, Greg  | The Social Division of Welfare Surveillance  | 
Parallel Session (c) - Social Protection, Markets and Health Care 
 Chair: Xiulan Zhangh
| Author(s) | Title | 
| Biswas, Gargi | Market and State in Health Services : The Case of India and China  | 
| Cook, Beth  | Lessons and Options for Universal Health Coverage with Special Reference to Privatisation Policies in Health Care: the Case of Australia and Ghana  | 
| Baru, Rama V.  | Blurring of Boundaries: The Mixed Economy In Health Services in India  | 
| Sivaramakrishnan, Kavita | Change and Continuity in the politics of Plague Epidemics: Public Health Policies and Practice in India  | 
| 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
| Author(s) | Title | 
| Barbier, Jean-Claude | When Research and Politics Mingle and Converge to Forget Cultural Diversity in Welfare Systems: Lessons from the Collapse of 'Social Europe'  | 
| Jenson, Jane | Redesigning Citizenship Regimes After Neoliberalism. Ideas About Social Investment.  | 
| Shaver, Sheila | Culture, Multiculturalism and Welfare State Citizenship  | 
18.00 End of the Conference
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