The Politics of Social Protection in Eastern and Southern Africa

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Sam Hickey Tom Lavers Miguel Niño-Zarazúa Jeremy Seekings(Herausgeber*in)

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Sam Hickey is Professor of Politics and Development in the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, and Research Director of the Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre. His work on the politics of development has been published in African Affairs, Journal of Development Studies, and World Development. He has edited eight collections, most recently The Politics of Inclusive Development (OUP, 2015, with Kunal Sen and Badru Bukenya), The Politics of Negotiating Gender Equity in the Global South (2019, Routledge, with Sohela Nazneen and Eleni Sifaki) and The Politics of Education in Developing Countries (OUP, 2019, with Naomi Hossain). Tom Lavers is a Lecturer in Politics and Development at the Global Development Institute at the University of Manchester and a researcher in Manchester's Effective States and Inclusive Development (ESID) Research Centre. His research focuses on comparative political economy of development, in particular on the themes of land, agrarian transformation, and social policy. He has previously published in leading journals including African Affairs, Development and Change, Journal of Agrarian Change, and the Journal of Peasant Studies. Jeremy Seekings is Professor of Political Studies and Sociology and Director of the Centre for Social Science Research at the University of Cape Town, and Visiting Professor in Political Science at Yale University. His most recent books include Inclusive Dualism: Labour-Intensive Development, Decent Work, and Surplus Labour in Southern Africa (Oxford University Press, 2019, co-authored with Nicoli Nattrass). His current research focuses on the politics of welfare reforms historically and in contemporary Africa, and on party politics and voting behaviour in Southern Africa. Miguel Niño-Zarazúa is a Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University (UNU-WIDER) where he has led the research programme on fiscal policy and social protection in developing countries. He has published extensively in leading academic journals such as World Development, Journal of Development Studies, and Review of Income and Wealth, and edited six journal special issues, the most recent ones in Population and Development Review and The European Journal of Political Economy. His current research is in the microeconomics and political economy of welfare-benefit systems and antipoverty programmes in developing countries. He is Associate Editor and Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of International Development.

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Cover
The Politics of Social Protection in Eastern and Southern Africa
Copyright
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
1: The Negotiated Politics of Social Protection in East and Southern Africa
1. Introduction
1.1. Tracking the rise of social assistance in east and southern Africa
2. The Changing Literature on Welfare State-Building and African Cases
3. Transnational Actors and Policy Diffusion
4. State and Society
4.1. Social assistance and the politics of elite survival in east and southern Africa
4.2. Electoral politics
4.3. The role of ideas
5. Conclusion
Appendix
Acknowledgement
References
2: Building a Conservative Welfare State in Botswana
1. Botswana as a Distinctively African Welfare State
2. Drought and the Foundations of the Welfare State
3. The Consolidation of Welfare Programmes in the 1990s
4. Economic, Social, and Cultural Change
5. Political Competition
6. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
3: Distributional Concerns, the 'Developmental State', and the Agrarian Origins of Social Assistance in Ethiopia
1. Introduction
2. A Framework for Analysing the Politics of Distribution in Developing Countries
3. Distribution and Mobilization in Liberated Tigray
4. Agricultural Development-Led Industrialization and the Pursuit of an Agrarian Distributional Regime
4.1. Agricultural development-led industrialization
4.2. The central role of state land ownership in ADLI
4.3. ADLI as a political strategy
4.4. The food security problem that would not go away
4.5. Changing ideological reference points and political interests
5. Ethiopia's 'Developmental State' and an Emerging Pauperist-Productivist Regime
5.1. Beyond ADLI: the developmental state model
5.2. From an agrarian towards a productivist-pauperist distributional regime
5.3. Rapid growth and growing distributional concerns
6. Conclusions
Acknowledgements
References
4: Understanding Elite Commitmentto Social Protection: Rwanda's Vision 2020 Umurenge Programme
1. Introduction
2. The Political Settlement Under the RPF
2.1. From post-conflict reconstruction to the current political settlement
2.2. Developmental ambitions and the role of ideas in the political settlement
3. Vision 2020 Umurenge Within the Distributional Regime
3.1. Beyond reconstruction: Vision 2020
3.2. Stalled progress and renewed efforts to meet Vision 2020
4. The Adoption and Evolution of the VUP
4.1. The initial policy development
4.2. From huge ambitions to designing a social protection programme
4.3. Reform and continuity within the social protection strategy
4.4. Elite commitment and the challenges of implementation
5. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Interviews Conducted
References
5: Pushing for Policy Innovation: The Framing of Social Protection Policies in Tanzania
1. Introduction
2. Theoretical Framework: Policy Solutions by Policy Entrepreneurs
3. Policy Paradigm: Development Challenges and Goals
4. Social Protection Policy Solution: The Promotion of the PSSN
4.1. From community development to CCT pilot
4.2. From CCTs to productive social safety nets
4.3. How the policy entrepreneurs achieved elite commitment for the PSSN
5. Contrasting the PSSN with the Promotion of the Social Pension
6. Conclusion
References
6: Policy Diffusion, Domestic Politics, and Social Assistance in Lesotho, 1998-2012
1. Introduction
2. Methodology
3. Politics, Poverty, and Social Protection in Lesotho in the Late 1990s
4. The Old-Age Pension-Another 'Mosisili'?
4.1. The role of the HIV/AIDS crisis
4.2. A political shift
4.3. Emergence of a policy
4.4. Politicization of the OAP
4.5. The financing of the OAP
4.6. Absence of transnational encouragement
4.7. Back to the roots
4.8. A diffusion effect?
4.9. The right to a pension
5. The Child Grant-An African Success Story?
5.1. A donor-driven policy coalition
5.2. The role of the Lesotho government
5.3. Convincing the sceptics
6. Discussion and Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
7: The Politics of Promoting Social Cash Transfers in Zambia
1. Introduction
2. The Political Settlement in Zambia
2.1. Inter-elite relations and coalition-building in post-colonial Zambia
2.2. The increased importance of vertical power relations under multi-party politics in Zambia
3. The Rise of Social Cash Transfers in Zambia
3.1. Promoting social protection and cash transfers in Zambia
3.2. Strengthening and scaling up
3.3. Government budget increase for SCTs
4. Transnational Policy Coalitions, the Political Settlement, and the Role of Ideas
4.1. Transnational policy coalitions and local wars of position
4.2. Political settlement dynamics in Zambia: the deepening of competitive clientelism and enduring importance of rent distribution
4.3. The role of ideas
5. Conclusion
Interviews Conducted
References
8: The Politics of Promoting Social Protection in Uganda: A Comparative Analysis of Social Cash Transfers and Social Health Insurance
1. Introduction: Researching the Politics of Social Protection in Uganda
2. The Politics of Development in Uganda
3. Social Health Insurance in Uganda
3.1. The contested process of promoting social health insurance in Uganda
3.2. Stakeholder analysis of the struggle over social health insurance
4. Social Cash Transfers in Uganda
4.1. Getting cash transfers on the policy agenda
4.2. From the policy to the political agenda within Uganda's shifting political settlement
4.3. A comparative analysis of the politics of cash transfers and health insurance in Uganda
4.3.1. Transnational policy coalitions and the power of ideas
4.3.2. Political settlement dynamics: elite ideas, incentives, and holding power
5. Conclusion
References
9: Social Assistance, Electoral Competition, and Political Branding in Malawi
1. Introduction
2. The Economy, Politics, and Policy Under Bingu wa Mutharika
3. Joyce Banda, Social Assistance, and Political Branding
4. The 2014 Election and the Limits to the Social Protection Brand
5. The Conditions for Social Assistance Branding
References
10: Who Should Get What, How, and Why?: DFID and the Transnational Politics of Social Cash Transfers in Sub-Saharan Africa
1. Introduction
2. Why Did SCTs Rise Up the Global Policy Agenda?
3. Wars of Position Over Global Social Policy
4. The Governmentality of Social Protection: From 'Rendering Technical' to 'Working Politically'
5. Conclusion
References
Index

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