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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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