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After '08 Stephen McBride

After '08 By Stephen McBride

After '08 by Stephen McBride

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Did the 2007-08 global financial crisis mark a turning point for social policy, or did it reinforce existing neo-liberal approaches to governance?

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After '08: Social Policy and the Global Financial Crisis by Stephen McBride

The 2007-08 financial crisis marked a turning point for social policy. World leaders were forced to take a position: Should they entrench neo-liberal policies in response to the crisis? Or should they implement alternative measures to challenge economics as usual?

After 08 examines how global institutions, such as the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and International Labour Organization, as well as nation states around the world responded to the crisis. Comparing the experience of Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America, and North America, contributors gauge the extent to which the neo-liberal landscape has shifted since the onset of the financial crisis and explore the directions social policy has taken. Did the response to the crisis follow a similar trajectory across countries and regions? Or did the diversity in national experiences produce a diversity of policy responses? And, if so, where did alternatives to neo-liberalism emerge?

About Stephen McBride

Stephen McBride is a professor of political science and Canada Research Chair in Public Policy and Globalization at McMaster University. He is the co-author (with Heather Whiteside) of Private Affluence, Public Austerity: Economic Crisis and Democratic Malaise in Canada, and co-editor (with Donna Baines) of Orchestrating Austerity: Impacts and Resistance.

Rianne Mahon holds a CIGI chair in comparative social policy at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and is a professor in the Department of Political Science at Wilfrid Laurier University. She is the co-editor (with Stephen McBride) of The OECD and Transnational Governance, co-editor (with Roger Keil) of Leviathan Undone? and co-editor (with Fiona Robinson) of Feminist Ethics and Social Politics.

Gerard W. Boychuk is chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Waterloo and a professor at the Balsillie School of International Affairs. He is co-editor of the journal Global Social Policy, co-editor of the book series American Governance and Public Policy (Georgetown University Press), and author of National Health Insurance in the United States and Canada: Race, Territory and the Roots of Difference, winner of the 2009 Donald Smiley Prize.

Contributors: Berkay Ayhan, Marlea Clarke, Sarah Cook, Bob Deacon, Kevin Farnsworth, Anthony Hall, Nigel Haworth, Steve Hughes, Zoe Irving, Jane Jenson, Ronald Labonte, Wing Lam, Lucy Luccisano, Laura Macdonald, Arne Ruckert, Antje Vetterlein, Heather Whiteside

Table of Contents

Introduction / Rianne Mahon, Gerard W. Boychuk, and Stephen McBride

Part 1: Context

1 Neo-Liberalism in Question? / Stephen McBride

2 Broadening the Frame: Inclusive Growth and the Social Investment Perspective / Jane Jenson

3 A New Era for Social Policy? Welfare States and the Financial Crisis / Kevin Farnsworth and Zoe Irving

Part 2: International Organizations

4 Understanding Policy Change as Position-Taking: The IMF and Social Policies in Times of Crisis / Antje Vetterlein

5 The ILO and Social Protection Policy after the Global Financial Crisis: A Challenge to the World Bank / Bob Deacon

6 The ILO, Greece, and Social Dialogue in the Aftermath of the GFC / Nigel Haworth and Steve Hughes

7 It Takes Two to Tango: Conditional Cash Transfers, Social Policy, and the Globalizing Role of the World Bank/ Anthony Hall

Part 3: Emerging Areas

8 Integrating the Social into CEPALs Neo-Structuralist Discourse/ Rianne Mahon

9 The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Mexican Social Policy / Lucy Luccisano and Laura Macdonald

10 Social Policy in South Africa: Cushioning the Blow of the Recession? / Marlea Clarke

11 In the Shadow of Crisis: Change and Continuity in Chinas Post-Crisis Social Policy / Sarah Cook and Wing Lam

Part 4: Global North

12 Global Crisis and Social Policy in Peripheral Europe: Comparing Ireland, Portugal, and Greece / Berkay Ayhan and Stephen McBride

13 Austerity Budgets and Public Sector Retrenchment: Crisis Era Policy Making in Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia / Heather Whiteside

14 Austerity Lite: Social Determinants of Health under Canadas Neo-Liberal Capture/ Ronald Labonte and Arne Ruckert

15 US Incremental Social Policy Expansionism in Response to Crisis / Gerard W. Boychuk

Conclusion / Gerard W. Boychuk, Rianne Mahon, and Stephen McBride

Additional information

GOR013955533
9780774829632
077482963X
After '08: Social Policy and the Global Financial Crisis by Stephen McBride
Stephen McBride
Used - Very Good
Hardback
University of British Columbia Press
2015-10-01
352
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