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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 on "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)
| Author(s) | Paper title |
|---|---|
| Gran, Brian | Do Children's Rights Improve Children's Welfare? ABSTRACT | PAPER Discussant: Olsen, Gregg |
| Kamerman, Sheila B. Gatenio-Gabel, Shirley | Social Protection for Children and their Families: A Global Review of Trends and Outcomes ABSTRACT | PAPER Discussant: Vezzosi, Elisabetta |
| Trifiletti, Rossana | Social Policies Facing New Social Risks: Lone Parents from Northern to Southern Europe ABSTRACT | PAPER Discussant: Kamerman, Sheila |
| Author(s) | Paper title |
|---|---|
| Cortes, Rosalia | Social Policy in the Post-Washington Consensus Era: The Role of International Organizations in Social Policy in Argentina and Brazil ABSTRACT | PAPER Discussant: Kwon, Huck-ju |
| Seeleib-Kaiser, Martin Vetterlein, Antje | Rethinking Global Governance: Market Actors and Accountability ABSTRACT | PAPER Discussant: Zaidi, S Akbar |
| Sonmez, Sinan | From "Semi-Peripherical Welfarism" to Neo-liberal Solutions. What About New Perspectives? - Developing World and Turkey ABSTRACT | PAPER Discussant: Stubbs, Paul |
| Kamruzzaman, Palash | Who Cares about Participation? All Is Needed Another Piece of Paper to Continue Debts and Loans ABSTRACT | PAPER Discussant: Canitano, Giovanni |
| Ejembi, E. P, Naswem A. A, Idu, E. E. | Nigerian Agricultural Development Strategies and the Global Connection: Social Relevance and Sustainability ABSTRACT | PAPER Contributed paper |
| Guliyev, Rufat Guliyeva, Sveta | International Investments and Social Policy ABSTRACT | PAPER Contributed paper |
| Author(s) | Paper title |
|---|---|
| Chee, Heng Leng | The Effects of Private Healthcare and Medical Tourism on Health Care Access: A Comparison between Two Southeast Asian Countries ABSTRACT | PAPER Discussant: Baru, Rama |
| Gingrich, Jane | Divergent Neo-Liberalism: Building Welfare States in an Era of Markets ABSTRACT | PAPER Discussant: Brennan, Deborah |
| Schiller, Christof Hensen, Henni Kuhnle, Stein | Health Policy in a Globalizing World ABSTRACT | PAPER Discussant: Blomqvist, Paula |
| Wendt, Claus Kohl, Jürgen | Patterns of Trust in Health Care Institutions ABSTRACT | PAPER Discussant: Guillen, Ana |
> 15.30-16.00 Coffee break
> 16.00-18.00 Plenary Session: Welfare Scenarios Across the Globe
Chair: Ian Gough
| Author(s) | Paper title |
|---|---|
| Adesina, Jimi O. | In Search of Inclusive Development: Social Policy in the Sub-Sahara African Context ABSTRACT | PAPER Discussant: Rognoni, Maria Stella |
| Cook, Sarah Kwon Huck-ju | Economic Development and Social Protection in East Asia ABSTRACT | PAPER Discussant: Walker, Robert |
| Draibe, Sônia M. Riesco, Manuel | Latin America: a New Social Agenda in the Making? ABSTRACT | PAPER Discussant: Bastagli, Francesca |
| Xiulan, Zhang Xiaojiang, Hu Salazar, Miguel A. | The Role of Family in Social Protection: Evidence from China PAPER Discussant: Biggeri, Mario |
>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
| Phd Student | Paper title |
|---|---|
| Kodate , Nao | Unpacking Institutional Logics in Healthcare Policy Change: Hospital Reforms in England, Japan and Sweden. PAPER Mentor: Kuhnle, Stein |
| Romano, Serena | Public-private Partnerships and Global Health Coalitions as Global Means of Social Inclusions. PAPER Mentor: Gingrich, Jane |
| Phd Student | Paper title |
|---|---|
| Van Driel, Maria | The Nature of Social Protection in Post Apartheid South Africa. PAPER Mentor: Kangas, Olli. |
> 9.00-10.30 Plenary Session: Comparing Welfare Reforms in Europe
Chair: Walter Korpi
| Author(s) | Paper title |
|---|---|
| Hemerijck, Anton | Recasting the Post War Social Contract ABSTRACT | PAPER Discussant: Kohl, Juergen |
| Palier, Bruno | A Long Good Bye to Bismarck? The Politics of Welfare Reforms in Continental Europe ABSTRACT | PAPER Discussant: Seeleib-Kaiser, Martin |
| Petmesidou, Maria Guillen, Ana | Dynamics of the Welfare Mix in South Europe ABSTRACT | PAPER Discussant: Moreno, Luis |
| Brennan, Deborah | Demography and public policy in Australia: policy responses to declining fertility in Australia ABSTRACT Contributed paper |
> 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)
| Author(s) | Paper title |
|---|---|
| Béland, Daniel | Ideas, Globalization, and Policy Change: A Sociological and Political Perspective ABSTRACT | PAPER 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)? ABSTRACT | PAPER Discussant: Orloff, Ann |
| Lendvai, Noémi Stubbs, Paul | Post-Colonial Dialogue or His Masters Voice? Translating the periphery in 'Global Social Policy' studies ABSTRACT | PAPER Discussant: Béland, Daniel |
| Author(s) | Paper title |
|---|---|
| Ginneken, Wouter van | Social Security and the Global Socio-economic Floor: Towards a Human Rights Based Approach ABSTRACT | PAPER Discussant: Birchfield, Vicki |
| Gangl, Markus Palme, Joakim Kenworthy, Lane | Is High Inequality Offset by Mobility? A Comparison of Germany, Sweden, and the United States ABSTRACT | PAPER Discussant: Myles, John |
| Kremer, Monique | Meeting and Mobility. Ethnic Diversity in the Dutch Welfare State ABSTRACT | PAPER Discussant: Laparra, Miguel |
| Onyeonoru, Ifeanyi P. | North-South Social Structural Disparities ABSTRACT | PAPER Discussant: Kangas, Olli |
| Martin, Isaac Nadav Gabay | Do Visible Taxes Cause Protest? Tax Institutions and Tax Protest in Rich Democracies ABSTRACT | PAPER Contributed paper |
| Author(s) | Paper title |
|---|---|
| Abrahamson, Peter | International Organization Recommendations and the Prospects for Social Citizenship? the Case of Central America
ABSTRACT | PAPER Discussant: Riesco, Manuel |
| Gudavarthy, Ajay | Trans-National Policy Making:Towards Tri-Continental Perspective ABSTRACT | PAPER 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 ABSTRACT | PAPER Discussant: Fargion, Valeria |
| Abrahamson, Peter Delgado, Manuel | Fiscal Policy in Small States: Comparing Scandinavia and Central America PAPER Contributed paper |
> 12.30-13.30 Lunch
Rc 19 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)
| Author(s) | Paper title |
|---|---|
| León, Margarita | Public and Private Responses to Ageism: 'Proximity Services' and Domestic Care Work of Migrant Women, the Case of Spain ABSTRACT | PAPER Discussant: Destremau, Blandine |
| Morel, Nathalie | From Subsidiarity to "Free Choice": Child- and Elderly-Care Policy Reforms in France, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. ABSTRACT | PAPER Discussant: Ranci, Costanzo |
| Szelewa, Dorota | Three Faces of Familialism: Comparing Family Policies in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland ABSTRACT | PAPER Discussant: Szalai, Julia |
| Wang, Shu-Yung | Trends and Factors of Childcare Policy Variations in an Era of Globalization ABSTRACT | PAPER 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 ABSTRACT | PAPER Contributed paper |
| Author(s) | Paper title |
|---|---|
| Agartan, Tuba I. | Turkish Health Policy in a Globalizing World: The case of ‘Transformation of Health’ Program PAPER 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 ABSTRACT | PAPER Discussant: Lue, Peter Jen-Der |
| Mahon, Rianne | Learning, Forgetting, Rediscovery: Producing The OECD’s ‘New’ Family Policy ABSTRACT | PAPER Discussant: Daniel Erler |
| O'Brien, Robert | South - North Global Labour Policy ABSTRACT | PAPER Discussant: Deacon, Bob |
| Mahon, Rianne | Reconciling Work and Family Life: Gendering The OECD's Social Policy Discourse ABSTRACT | PAPER Contributed paper |
| Author(s) | Paper 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
ABSTRACT | PAPER 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 ABSTRACT | PAPER Discussant: Petmesidou, Maria |
| Won, Si Yeon | Long-Term Care Policy in South Korea and Japan: From a Gender Perspective ABSTRACT | PAPER 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? ABSTRACT | PAPER Discussant: Draibe, Sonia |
>15.30-16.00 Coffe Break
>16.00-18.00 Plenary Session - Theorizing Comparisons across North and South
Chair: Joachim Palme
| Author(s) | Paper title |
|---|---|
| Destremau, Blandine | Contribution to a Comparative Framework of Social Protection Systems in Developing Countries ABSTRACT | PAPER Discussant: Nelson, Kenneth |
| Gough, Ian | Policy Regimes and Wellbeing: a Comparative Analysis ABSTRACT | PAPER Discussant: Van Oorschot, Wim |
| Haan, Arjan de | Reclaiming Social Policy: Social Spending in Low Income Countries Reconsidered ABSTRACT | PAPER 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 ABSTRACT | PAPER Discussant: Shaver, Sheila |
| Mudge, Stephanie | Rethinking the New Politics: Political Neoliberalism and the European Center-Left ABSTRACT | PAPER Contributed paper |
> 18.00-19.00 General Assembly of RC19
> 19.00 End of Second day
> 20.30 Buffet Dinner in Palazzo Medici-Riccardi offered by the Province of Florence
> 08.00-09.00 Phd Mentoring Sessions
| Phd Student | Paper title |
|---|---|
| Dorrity, Claire | The Under-representation of Immigrants in Irish Social Policy Formation. PAPER Mentor: Williams, Fiona |
| Kesler, Christel | Poverty among Immigrant Newcomers: Assessing the Roles of Market, State and Family. PAPER Mentor: Palme, Joakim |
| Phd Student | Paper title |
|---|---|
| Grinvalds, Holly | Labour Market Policy and the Influence of OECD Ideas: Canada and Denmark Compared. PAPER Mentor: Palier, Bruno |
| Häusermann, Silja | Coalitional Dynamics as Drivers of "Gradual Transformative Policy Change" in Continental Welfare States. PAPER Mentor: O'Connor, Julia S. |
> 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" (power point presentation)
> 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)
| Author(s) | Paper 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 ABSTRACT | PAPER Discussant: Kenworthy, Lane |
| Larsen, Christian Albrekt | The Institutional Logic of Welfare Attitudes: How Welfare Regimes Influence Public Support ABSTRACT | PAPER Discussant: Humpage, Louise |
| Wodsak, Veronika (PhD) | Change and Continuity in the World Bank's Approach to Old Age Security ABSTRACT | PAPER Discussant: Palme, Joakim |
| Blomqvist, Paula | Idea Diffusion and Agenda-setting in Social Policy: Health Care Reform in the Netherlands and Sweden in the 1990s ABSTRACT | PAPER Discussant: Martin, Isaac |
| Ploug, Niels Bay, Hans | Welfare Values and Individualisation ABSTRACT | PAPER 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 PAPER Contributed paper |
| Author(s) | Paper title |
|---|---|
| Bastagli, Francesca | From Social Safety Net to Social Policy? The Role of Conditional Cash Transfers in Welfare State Development in Latin America ABSTRACT | PAPER Discussant: Budowski, Monica |
| Moreno, Luis | Safety Nets in Latin America: Targeting and Universalism? ABSTRACT | PAPER Discussant: Abrahamson, Peter |
| Nelson, Kenneth | Minimum Income Protection and European Integration: Trends and Levels of Minimum Benefits in Comparative Perspective 1990-2005 ABSTRACT | PAPER Discussant: Jenson, Jane |
| Redmond, Gerry Menchini, Leonardo Francavilla, Francesca | The impact of cash transfers on child well-being in Central Asia and Eastern Europe PAPER Discussant: Ginneken, Wouter |
| Qabaja, Anwar | Poverty Indicators in Palestine ABSTRACT | PAPER Contributed paper |
| Gulcubuk, Bulent | The Impact of Globalization on Rural Poor in Turkey: The Case of Social Risk Mitigation Project ABSTRACT | PAPER Contributed paper |
| Author(s) | Paper title |
|---|---|
| Peng, Ito | Welfare State Restructuring in South Korea: a Political Economic Perspective ABSTRACT | PAPER 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 ABSTRACT | PAPER 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 ABSTRACT | PAPER Discussant: Haan, Arjan de |
| Walker, Robert Pellissery Sony | Giants Old and New: Promoting Social Security and Economic Growth in the Asia and Pacific Region ABSTRACT | PAPER Discussant: Lee, Hyekyung |
| Lee, HyeKyung | Globalization, Democratization and Social Investment State: Post-Crisis Korea's Choice of Inclusive Liberalist Solution ABSTRACT Contributed Paper |
> 13.00-14:00 Lunch
> 14.00-16.00 Parallel Session
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)
| Author(s) | Paper title |
|---|---|
| Gal, John | Immigration and the Categorical Welfare State in Israel ABSTRACT | PAPER Discussant: Ramazyan, Hripsime |
| Hettige, S.T. | Fighting Poverty in Low Income Countries: The Case of Sri Lanka ABSTRACT | PAPER Discussant: Qabaja, Anwar |
| Laparra Navarro, Miguel | Migration and Social Policy in Europe ABSTRACT | PAPER Discussant: Gal, John |
| Williams, Fiona | How Do We Theorise the Employment of Migrant Women in Home-Based Care Work in European Welfare States? ABSTRACT | PAPER Discussant: Leòn, Marguerita |
| Ramazyan, Hripsime Luberanskaya, Yana | Migration and the New Social Order ABSTRACT | PAPER Contributed paper |
| Author(s) | Paper title |
|---|---|
| Kangas, Olli | Impacts of Colonialization and Modernization on the Timing of Social Insurance in Africa ABSTRACT | PAPER Discussant: Gough, Ian |
| Olsen, Gregg M. | Toward Global Welfare State Convergence? Labour Market Policy and Old Age Policy in Sweden, Canada and the US ABSTRACT | PAPER Discussant: Dionne, Michelle |
| Polakowski, Michal (PhD) | A Comparative Study of Social Policy Institutional Characteristics in Central and Eastern Europe ABSTRACT | PAPER Discussant: Gatenio-Gabel, Shirley |
| Szalai, Julia | Challenges to the “Convergence Thesis”: Some Notes on the Formation of the Postcommunist Welfare State ABSTRACT | PAPER Discussant: Hobson, Barbara |
| Guogis, Arvydas | Why Lithuanian model of social welfare provision does not resemble the Nordic one? ABSTRACT | PAPER Contributed paper |
| Marston, Greg Henman, Paul | The Social Division of Welfare Surveillance ABSTRACT | PAPER Contributed paper |
| Author(s) | Paper title |
|---|---|
| Biswas, Gargi | Market and State in Health Services : The Case of India and China ABSTRACT | PAPER 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 ABSTRACT | PAPER Discussant: Gingrich, Jane |
| Baru, Rama V. Nundy, Madhurima | Blurring of Boundaries: The Mixed Economy In Health Services in India ABSTRACT | PAPER Discussant: Agartan, Tuba |
| Sivaramakrishnan, Kavita | Change and Continuity in the politics of Plague Epidemics: Public Health Policies and Practice in India ABSTRACT | PAPER Discussant: Koivusalo, Meri |
| Deshpande, Mita | Through the Lens of Universality: Perceptions on Dignity, Trust and Exclusion in the Era of Health Sector Reforms ABSTRACT | PAPER Contributed paper |
> 16.00-16.30 Coffee Break
> 16.30-18.00 Plenary Session: Culture and Social Citizenship
Chair: Ann Orloff
| Author(s) | Paper 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' ABSTRACT | PAPER Discussant: O'Connor, Julia |
| Jenson, Jane | Redesigning Citizenship Regimes After Neoliberalism. Ideas About Social Investment. ABSTRACT | PAPER Discussant: Palier, Bruno |
| Shaver, Sheila | Culture, Multiculturalism and Welfare State Citizenship ABSTRACT | PAPER Discussant: Gudavarthy, Ajay |
> 18.00 End of Conference
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