International Impacts on Social Policy - Short Histories in Global Perspective

This open access book consists of 39 short essays that exemplify how interactions between inter- and trans-national interdependencies and domestic factors have shaped the dynamics of social policy in various parts of the world at different points in time. Each chapter highlights a specific type of interdependence which has been identified to provide us with a nuanced understanding of specific social policy developments at discrete points in history. The volume is divided into four parts that are concerned with a particular type of cross-border interrelation. The four parts examine the impact on social policy of trade relations and economic crises, violence, international organisations  and cross-border communication and migration. This book will be of interest to academics and postgraduate students in the field of social policy, global history and welfare state research from diverse disciplines: sociology, political science, history, law and economics. 

List of contents

1. Introduction: International Interdependencies and the
Impact on Social Policies Frank Nullmeier, Delia González de Reufels, and
Herbert Obinger.- Part I  Violence and Welfare.- 2. Introduction: Violence and Welfare  Herbert Obinger and Carina Schmitt.- 3 Mass Warfare and the Development of the Modern Welfare State: An Analysis of the Western World, 1914-1950  Herbert Obinger, Carina Schmitt, and Laura Seelkopf.-4. The Emergence of the Socialist Healthcare Model After the First World War  Andreas Heinrich.- 5. The Cold War and the Welfare State in Western Europe  Klaus Petersen, Michele Mioni, and Herbert Obinger.- 6   The Coalition Between Medical Doctors and the MilitarOn the Establishment of Public Health in Chile, 1870-1939 Delia González de Reufels.- 7  Social Policy and Britain's 1929 Colonial Development AAmanda Shriwise.- 8   The Colonial Legacy and the Jamaican Healthcare SystemElsada Diana Cassells, Gabriela de Carvalho, and Lorraine
Frisina Doetter.- 9   Between Aspiration and Reality: The Effect of the French
Colonial Legacy on Old-Age Pension Coverage in AfricaAline Grünewald.- 10   The Colonial Legacies of Copper Dependence: Inequality
and Bifurcated Social Protection in Zambia Anna Wolkenhauer.- 11   Class-Based Communities: The Postcolonial Reform of School Education in South Africa Alex Veit.- Part II  International Organisations and Transnational Diffusion .-12   Introduction: International Organisations and Transnational Diffusion Kerstin Martens and Dennis Niemann.- 13   Global "Cultural Spheres" and the Introduction of Compulsory Schooling Around the World Fabian Besche-Truthe, Helen Seitzer, and Michael Windzio.- 14   The ILO Beyond Philadelphia Jenny Hahs.- 15   Between Economics and Education: How International Organisations Changed the View on Education Dennis Niemann, David Krogmann, and Kerstin Martens.- 16   The Role of the United Nations in Promoting the Policy Debate on Child Allowance Issues in 1960s Japan Naho Sugita.-17.  The Washington Consensus and the Push for Neoliberal
Social Policies in Latin America: The Impact of
International Organisations on Colombian HealthcarReform Gabriela de Carvalho and Lorraine Frisina Doetter.- 18   World Bank Intervention and Introduction of Social
Health Insurance in Albania Ertila Druga.- 19   Social Protection in Mozambique from the 1990s to the 2000s Sarah Kassim de Camargo Penteado.- 20. Labour Market Segmentation, Regulation of NonStandardEmployment, and the Influence
of the EUIrene Dingeldey and Jean-Yves Gerlitz.- 21. Pathways to Family Policy in Half a Century of  Population Control: International Paradigmsand
National Programmes Tobias Böger, Sonja Drobnic, and Johannes Huinink.- 22   Opposition to the Washington Consensus: The IMF and
Social Policy Reforms in Post-Soviet Russia Heiko Pleines
.- Part III  Globalisation, Economic Interdependencies and
Economic Crises .- 23   Globalisation, Economic Interdependencies and
Economic Crises Ivo Mossig and Michael Lischka.- 24   Economic Interdependencies and Social Expenditures Revisited Nils Düpont, Ivo Mossig, and Michael Lischka.- 25   Black Swans and the Emergence of Unemployment Insurance in the First Half of the Twentieth Century Herbert Obinger and Carina Schmitt.- 26. Standard-Setting in Colonial Labour Regulation and the Great Depression Heiner Fechner.- 27. Social Reforms and the Fear of Economic Backlash: Political Debates on Social Policy and Transnational Influences in Argentina in the 1930s Simon Gerards Iglesias.- 28   International Transfers and National Path Dependencies:  Pension Systems in Britain and Germany after the Second World War Cornelius Torp.- 29.  The Formation of a National Capital Stock and thePension Systems in South Korea and Malaysia Johanna Kuhlmann and Frank Nullmeier.- 30   The "Great Recession" and Pension Policy Change in
European Countries Magnus Brosig and Karl Hinrichs.-31   Trade and Immigration: How International Factors Shaped Social Policy in Argentina Martín Cortina Escudero.- Part IV  Transnational Social Movements and Expert
Networks.- 32   Introduction: Transnational Social Movements and Expert
Networks Delia González de Reufels and Frank Nullmeier .- 33   Relations Between Germany and China and the Rise of the Social Insurance State in China Since the Economic Reform of1978 Tao Liu and Tong Tian.- 34   Social Long-Term Care Insurance: An Idea Travelling Between Countries? Johanna Fischer, Hongsoo Kim, Lorraine Frisina Doetter, and Heinz Rothgang.- 35   Variations on Bismarck: Translations of Social Health
Insurance in Post- Communist Healthcare Reforms in Central and Eastern Europe-The Role of Vertical and Horizontal Interdependencies Monika Ewa Kaminska.- 36   A Quest for Equity: Labour Standards on the Transnational Move Ulrich Mückenberger.- 37.  Did Migrants Build the Welfare State? Migration as a Social Policy Driver in Early Twentieth-Century UruguayTeresa Huhle.-38   Social Protection for Migrant Workers in China Tao Liu and Tobias ten Brink.- 39   Differentiation of Welfare Rights for Migrants in WesterCountries from 1970 to Present Friederike Römer.- 40   Dependencies of Long-Term Care Policy on East-West
Migration: The Case of Germany Karin Gottschall, Kristin Noack, and Heinz Rothgang
Part V Conclusions.- 41   By Way of Conclusion: Future Research Frank Nullmeier, Delia González de Reufels, and
Herbert Obinger

About the author

Frank Nullmeier is Professor of Political Science and State Theory at SOCIUM - Research Center on Inequality and Social Policy, University of Bremen, Germany.

Delia González des Reufels is Professor of Latin American History at the Institute of History, University of Bremen, Germany. 

Herbert Obinger is a Professor of Comparative Public and Social Policy at SOCIUM - Research Center on Inequality and Social Policy, University of Bremen, Germany. 

Product details

• Assisted by: Deli González de Reufels (Editor), Delia González de Reufels (Editor), Frank Nullmeier (Editor), Herbert Obinger (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.01.2022
• EAN: 9783030866440
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3086644-0
• No. of pages: 542
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 34 mm x 210 mm
• Illustrations: XXVIII, 542 p. 28 illus.
• Series: Global Dynamics of Social Policy
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories