Program

Author(s)

 Title

Gran, Brian

Do Children's Rights Improve Children's Welfare?
Discussant: Olsen, Gregg

Kamerman, Sheila B.
Gatenio-Gabel, Shirley

Social Protection for Children and their Families: A Global Review of Trends and Outcomes
Discussant: Vezzosi, Elisabetta

Trifiletti, Rossana

Social Policies Facing New Social Risks: Lone Parents from Northern to Southern Europe
Discussant: Kamerman, Sheila

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
Discussant: Baru, Rama

Gingrich, Jane

Divergent Neo-Liberalism: Building Welfare States in an Era of Markets
Discussant: Brennan, Deborah

Schiller, Christof
Hensen, Henni
Kuhnle, Stein

Health Policy in a Globalizing World
Discussant: Blomqvist, Paula

Wendt, Claus
Kohl, Jürgen

Patterns of Trust in Health Care Institutions
Discussant: Guillen, Ana

Author(s)

 Title

Adesina, Jimi O.

In Search of Inclusive Development: Social Policy in the Sub-Sahara African Context
Discussant: Rognoni, Maria Stella

Cook, Sarah
Kwon Huck-ju

Economic Development and Social Protection in East Asia
Discussant: Walker, Robert

Draibe, Sônia M.
Riesco, Manuel

Latin America: a New Social Agenda in the Making?
Discussant: Bastagli, Francesca

Xiulan, Zhang
Xiaojiang, Hu
Salazar, Miguel A.

The Role of Family in Social Protection: Evidence from China
Discussant: Biggeri, Mario

Phd Student

 Title

Kodate , Nao

Unpacking Institutional Logics in Healthcare Policy Change: Hospital Reforms in England, Japan and Sweden.
Mentor: Kuhnle, Stein

Romano, Serena

Public-private Partnerships and Global Health Coalitions as Global Means of Social Inclusions.
Mentor: Gingrich, Jane

Phd Student

 Title

Van Driel, Maria

The Nature of Social Protection in Post Apartheid South Africa.
Mentor: Kangas, Olli.

Author(s)

 Title

Hemerijck, Anton

Recasting the Post War Social Contract
Discussant: Kohl, Juergen

Palier, Bruno

A Long Good Bye to Bismarck? The Politics of Welfare Reforms in Continental Europe
Discussant: Seeleib-Kaiser, Martin

Petmesidou, Maria
Guillen, Ana

Dynamics of the Welfare Mix in South Europe
Discussant: Moreno, Luis

Brennan, Deborah

Demography and public policy in Australia: policy responses to declining fertility in Australia
Contributed Paper

Author(s)

 Title

Béland, Daniel

Ideas, Globalization, and Policy Change: A Sociological and Political Perspective
Discussant: Yeates, Nicola

Humpage, Louise

Globalising Policy Discourses and Indigenous Peoples in New Zealand and Australia: Lessons to the 'South' from the 'North' (and vice versa)?
Discussant: Orloff, Ann

Lendvai, Noémi
Stubbs, Paul

Post-Colonial Dialogue or His Masters Voice? Translating the periphery in 'Global Social Policy' studies
Discussant: Béland, Daniel

Author(s)

 Title

Ginneken, Wouter van

Social Security and the Global Socio-economic Floor: Towards a Human Rights Based Approach
Discussant: Birchfield, Vicki

Gangl, Markus
Palme, Joakim
Kenworthy, Lane

Is High Inequality Offset by Mobility? A Comparison of Germany, Sweden, and the United States
Discussant: Myles, John

Kremer, Monique

Meeting and Mobility. Ethnic Diversity in the Dutch Welfare State
Discussant: Laparra, Miguel

Onyeonoru, Ifeanyi P.

North-South Social Structural Disparities
Discussant: Kangas, Olli

Martin, Isaac
Nadav Gabay

Do Visible Taxes Cause Protest? Tax Institutions and Tax Protest in Rich Democracies
Contributed Paper

Author(s)

 Title

Abrahamson, Peter

International Organization Recommendations and the Prospects for Social Citizenship? the Case of Central America
Discussant: Riesco, Manuel

Gudavarthy, Ajay

Trans-National Policy Making:Towards Tri-Continental Perspective
Discussant: Sjoberg, Ola

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
Discussant: Fargion, Valeria

Abrahamson, Peter
Delgado, Manuel

Fiscal Policy in Small States: Comparing Scandinavia and Central America
Contributed Paper

Author(s)

 Title

León, Margarita

Public and Private Responses to Ageism: 'Proximity Services' and Domestic Care Work of Migrant Women, the Case of Spain
Discussant: Destremau, Blandine

Morel, Nathalie

From Subsidiarity to "Free Choice": Child- and Elderly-Care Policy Reforms in France, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands.
Discussant: Ranci, Costanzo

Szelewa, Dorota

Three Faces of Familialism: Comparing Family Policies in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland
Discussant: Szalai, Julia

Wang, Shu-Yung

Trends and Factors of Childcare Policy Variations in an Era of Globalization
Discussant: Ferrarini, Tommy

Hiraoka, Koichi

The Formation and Reorganization of the System of Long-Term Care Services in Japan: From the 1980s to the Present
Contributed Paper

Author(s)

 Title

Agartan, Tuba I.

Turkish Health Policy in a Globalizing World: The case of ‘Transformation of Health’ Program
Discussant: Cook, Beth

Kaasch, Alexandra

Overlapping and competing agencies in global health governance. WHO, World Bank, and OECD in the guidance of national health care systems
Discussant: Lue, Peter Jen-Der

Mahon, Rianne

Learning, Forgetting, Rediscovery: Producing The OECD’s ‘New’ Family Policy
Discussant: Daniel Erler

O'Brien, Robert

South - North Global Labour Policy
Discussant: Deacon, Bob

Mahon, Rianne

Reconciling Work and Family Life: Gendering The OECD's Social Policy Discourse
Contributed Paper

Author(s)

 Title

Korpi, Walter
Englund, Stefan

The Nordic Gender Paradise Lost? Gender Inequalities in Employment, Work Segregation, Wages, and Political Representation in Different Types of Welfare States
Discussant: Steinmo, Sven

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
Discussant: Petmesidou, Maria

Won, Si Yeon

Long-Term Care Policy in South Korea and Japan: From a Gender Perspective
Discussant: Peng, Ito

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?
Discussant: Draibe, Sonia

Author(s)

 Title

Destremau, Blandine

Contribution to a Comparative Framework of Social Protection Systems in Developing Countries
Discussant: Nelson, Kenneth

Gough, Ian

Policy Regimes and Wellbeing: a Comparative Analysis
Discussant: Van Oorschot, Wim

Haan, Arjan de

Reclaiming Social Policy: Social Spending in Low Income Countries Reconsidered
Discussant: Adesina, Jimi

Esser, Ingrid
Ferrarini, Tommy
Sjöberg, Ola
Nelson, Kenneth

A Framework for Comparing Social Protection in Developing Countries with the Example of Child Benefits
Discussant: Shaver, Sheila

Mudge, Stephanie

Rethinking the New Politics: Political Neoliberalism and the European Center-Left
Contributed Paper

Phd Student

Title

Dorrity, Claire

The Under-representation of Immigrants in Irish Social Policy Formation.
Mentor: Williams, Fiona

Kesler, Christel

Poverty among Immigrant Newcomers: Assessing the Roles of Market, State and Family.
Mentor: Palme, Joakim

Phd Student

Title

Grinvalds, Holly

Labour Market Policy and the Influence of OECD Ideas: Canada and Denmark Compared.
Mentor: Palier, Bruno

Häusermann, Silja

Coalitional Dynamics as Drivers of "Gradual Transformative Policy Change" in Continental Welfare States.
Mentor: O'Connor, Julia S.

Author(s)

 Title

Birchfield Vicki
Dion, Michelle

Patterns of Income Inequality in the Capitalist Core: The Role of Values and Institutions and Lessons for the Global South
Discussant: Kenworthy, Lane

Larsen, Christian Albrekt

The Institutional Logic of Welfare Attitudes: How Welfare Regimes Influence Public Support
Discussant: Humpage, Louise

Wodsak, Veronika (PhD)

Change and Continuity in the World Bank's Approach to Old Age Security
Discussant: Palme, Joakim

Blomqvist, Paula

Idea Diffusion and Agenda-setting in Social Policy: Health Care Reform in the Netherlands and Sweden in the 1990s
Discussant: Martin, Isaac

Ploug, Niels
Bay, Hans

Welfare Values and Individualisation
Discussant: Larsen, Christian Albrekt

Stryker, Robin
Wald, Pamela

Redefining Compassion to Reform Welfare: How Supporters of 1990s US Federal Welfare Reform Aimed for the Moral High Ground
Contributed Paper

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
Discussant: Budowski, Monica

Moreno, Luis

Safety Nets in Latin America: Targeting and Universalism?
Discussant: Abrahamson, Peter

Nelson, Kenneth

Minimum Income Protection and European Integration: Trends and Levels of Minimum Benefits in Comparative Perspective 1990-2005
Discussant: Jenson, Jane

Redmond, Gerry
Menchini, Leonardo
Francavilla, Francesca

The impact of cash transfers on child well-being in Central Asia and Eastern Europe
Discussant: Ginneken, Wouter

Qabaja, Anwar

Poverty Indicators in Palestine
Contributed Paper

Gulcubuk, Bulent

The Impact of Globalization on Rural Poor in Turkey: The Case of Social Risk Mitigation Project
Contributed Paper

Author(s)

 Title

Peng, Ito

Welfare State Restructuring in South Korea: a Political Economic Perspective
Discussant: Sivaramakrishnan, Kavita

Lee, Eliza W.Y.

The Neoliberal Turn in Social Policy and Implications for the Development of Social and Political Citizenship in Hong Kong
Discussant: Kuhnle, Stein

Lue, Peter Jen-der

Can the Variety of Capitalism Approach explain the Social Policy Transition in East-Asia?: Taiwan and South-Korea Compared
Discussant: Haan, Arjan de

Walker, Robert
Pellissery Sony

Giants Old and New: Promoting Social Security and Economic Growth in the Asia and Pacific Region
Discussant: Lee, Hyekyung

Lee, HyeKyung

Globalization, Democratization and Social Investment State: Post-Crisis Korea's Choice of Inclusive Liberalist Solution
Contributed Paper

Author(s)

 Title

Gal, John

Immigration and the Categorical Welfare State in Israel
Discussant: Ramazyan, Hripsime

Hettige, S.T.

Fighting Poverty in Low Income Countries: The Case of Sri Lanka
Discussant: Qabaja, Anwar

Laparra Navarro, Miguel

Migration and Social Policy in Europe
Discussant: Gal, John

Williams, Fiona

How Do We Theorise the Employment of Migrant Women in Home-Based Care Work in European Welfare States?
Discussant: Leòn, Marguerita

Ramazyan, Hripsime
Luberanskaya, Yana

Migration and the New Social Order
Contributed Paper

Author(s)

 Title

Kangas, Olli

Impacts of Colonialization and Modernization on the Timing of Social Insurance in Africa
Discussant: Gough, Ian

Olsen, Gregg M.

Toward Global Welfare State Convergence? Labour Market Policy and Old Age Policy in Sweden, Canada and the US
Discussant: Dionne, Michelle

Polakowski, Michal (PhD)

A Comparative Study of Social Policy Institutional Characteristics in Central and Eastern Europe
Discussant: Gatenio-Gabel, Shirley

Szalai, Julia

Challenges to the “Convergence Thesis”: Some Notes on the Formation of the Postcommunist Welfare State
Discussant: Hobson, Barbara

Guogis, Arvydas

On Lithuanian Social Policy Model
Contributed Paper

Marston, Greg
Henman, Paul

The Social Division of Welfare Surveillance
Contributed Paper

Author(s)

 Title

Biswas, Gargi

Market and State in Health Services : The Case of India and China
Discussant: Chee, Heng-Leng

Cook, Beth
Dzator, Janet

Lessons and Options for Universal Health Coverage with Special Reference to Privatisation Policies in Health Care: the Case of Australia and Ghana
Discussant: Gingrich, Jane

Baru, Rama V.
Nundy, Madhurima

Blurring of Boundaries: The Mixed Economy In Health Services in India
Discussant: Agartan, Tuba

Sivaramakrishnan, Kavita

Change and Continuity in the politics of Plague Epidemics: Public Health Policies and Practice in India
Discussant: Koivusalo, Meri

Deshpande, Mita

Through the Lens of Universality: Perceptions on Dignity, Trust and Exclusion in the Era of Health Sector Reforms
Contributed Paper

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'
Discussant: O'Connor, Julia

Jenson, Jane

Redesigning Citizenship Regimes After Neoliberalism. Ideas About Social Investment.
Discussant: Palier, Bruno

Shaver, Sheila

Culture, Multiculturalism and Welfare State Citizenship
Discussant: Gudavarthy, Ajay