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PSCI 5208

Global Social Policy

0.5 credit · Graduate

The seminar explores global initiatives in poverty reduction, inequality, development assistance and internationalization of the provision of social services. The seminar considers theoretical, institutional and policy implications of debates about global justice, policy transfer and global government of social policies.

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Readings

  • Fraser, N. 2007. Transnationalizing the Public Sphere: On the Legitimacy and Efficacy of Public Opinion in a Post-Westphalian World, Theory, Culture & Society 244): 7–30.
  • Kurasawa, Fuyuki 2014. An Alternative Public Sphere? An Anarchist Cosmopolitanism Post-Westphalian times. In Kate Nash, Transnationalizing the Public Sphere. Cambridge: Polity Press, 79-77
  • Sen, Amartya. 1999. Chapter 1: The Perspective on Freedom. Development as Freedom, New York: Knopf, 13-34.
  • Hayek, F. A. 1982. Vol 2. The Mirages of Social Justice. In Law, legislation and liberty: A new statement of the liberal principles of justice and political economy. London and New York: Routledge. 1-30.
  • Des Gasper and Irene van Staveren, 2003. Development as Freedom and as What Else? Feminist Economics 9:2, 2003 Shilliam, Robbie. 2013. Redemption from development: Amartya Sen, Rastafari and promises of Freedom.
  • Duffield, Mark. 2010. 'The Liberal Way of Development and the Development-Security Impasse: Exploring the Global Life-Chance Divide'. Security Dialogue, 41:1, 53-76.
  • Ilcan, Suzan and Kim Rygiel. 2015. “Resiliency Humanitarianism”: Responsibilizing Refugees through Humanitarian Emergency Governance in the Camp. International Political Sociology, 9, 333-351.
  • Meltzer, Judy. 2013. "Good Citizenship" and the Promotion of Personal Savings Accounts in Peru'. Citizenship Studies 17:5, 641-52.
  • Fassin, Didier. 2011. Humanitarian Reason: A moral history of the present. Berkeley: University of California Press. Chapter 1 and Conclusion.
  • Gosta-Esping Andersen 1998. Comparative Welfare Regimes Re-Examined”, in Social Foundations of Postindustrial Economies, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 73-94.
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