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- sorry for cross posting - Dear colleagues, my new book "The Global Rise of Cash Transfers" (see below) presents the key findings of the research project FLOOR on social cash transfers in the global South (University of Bielefeld, Germany; funded by the German Research Council). The project pursues a sociological approach, complementing approaches from political economy and development economics, and uses a unique self-constructed data base. The book covers both domestic programmes and concepts of international organizations since the 1990s. For further publications from the project and for the database see below.. Best, Lutz Leisering ** * * FLOOR project, www.floorcash.org Funded by the German Research Council (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), principal investigator Lutz Leisering University of Bielefeld, Germany. Contact: [log in to unmask] ** *Summary book:* Published on 6 Dec 2018 (dated 2019); xxii+453 pphttps://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-global-rise-of-social-cash-transfers-9780198754336?cc=de&lang=en& The book seeks to advance research on social cash transfers: -by going beyond case studies of flagship programmes to mapping all programmes in all countries of the South, based on a unique self-constructed data base and on new indicators -by going from describing to theorizing and explaining cash transfers -by going from administrative issues of finance, implementation, and effects to normative foundations -by going from single cash transfer programmes to national cash transfer regimes (systemic approach) -by complementing studies of domestic programmes by an analysis of concepts of international organizations since the 1990s -by using both quantitative and qualitative methods -by embedding social cash transfers in a general theory of social assistance and basic security in North and South -by developing an institutionalist sociological theory of social policy that covers both the global North and South and focuses on processes of recognition, complementing approaches from political economy and development economics. ** *Data base *and background information: www.floorcash.org <http://www.floorcash.org> A unique set of data bases, with data on all identifiable cash transfer programmes in all countries of the global South, and on the cash transfer concepts of all major international organizations since the 1990s. The data bases have in-depth variables on entitlements that allow to construct refined indicators of the inclusiveness/exclusiveness of cash transfer programmes, as done in the FLOOR-B project. ** *Further publications:* a) Book Moritz von Gliszczynski (2015) /Cash Transfers and Basic Social Protection/, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Even if the title does not say so: this is the only in-depth analysis of how international organizations conceive of social cash transfers, why they switched from rejection to acceptance since the 1990s, what broader changes in global discourses framed this change, what models of transfers international organizations proposed, and how they eventually reached a global consensus. The book applies a multi-level approach to ideational analysis, based on the Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse Analysis (SKAD). b) Articles Tobias Böger & Lutz Leisering (2019, preview available) A new pathway to universalism? Explaining the spread of ‘social’ pensions in the global South, 1967–2011. /Journal of International Relations and Development / Tobias Böger & Kerem Öktem (2019, preview available) Levels or worlds of welfare? Assessing social rights and social stratification in Northern and Southern countries. /Social Policy and Administration/ Tobias Böger & Lutz Leisering (2017) Social citizenship for older persons? Measuring the social quality of social pensions in the global south and explaining their spread. Social Protection & Labor Discussion Papers no. 1703. Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group Lutz Leisering, Tao Liu & Tobias ten Brink (2017) Synthesizing Disparate Ideas: How a Chinese Model of Social Assistance was Forged. /Global Social Policy/ 17(3): 307–327 John Berten & Lutz Leisering (2017) Social policy by numbers. How international organisations construct global policy proposals. /International Journal of Social Welfare/, 26:151–167. Berten, John (2017) Evaluation and simulation: Producing evidence in the global politics of social cash transfers. In: Annabelle Littoz-Monnet (ed.), /The politics of expertise in international organizations./ How international bureaucracies produce and mobilize knowledge. New York: Routledge: 148-166. Moritz von Gliszczynski (2017) Social Protection and Basic Income in Global Policy, /Global Social Policy/, 17(1), 98–100. Katrin Weible (2016) What Social Cash Transfer Programmes Do Not Do in Middle Income Countries: Identifying Entitlement Gaps in Basic Social Protection, in: United Nations System Staff College & Hertie School of Governance (eds.) /UN Reflection Series 2016: Development Cooperation, Policy Advice and Middle Income Countries/, Berlin. 173-192. Moritz von Gliszczynski & Lutz Leisering (2016) Constructing new global models of social security: How international organizations defined the field of social cash transfers in the 2000s. /Journal of Social Policy/, 45(2): 325-343. Tao Liu & Li Sun (2016) Pension Reform in China. /Journal of Aging & Social Policy/, 28(1): 15-28. Tao Liu & Li Sun (2016) Urban Social Assistance in China: Transnational Diffusion and National Interpretation. /Journal of Current Chinese Affairs/, 45(2): 29-51. Lutz Leisering, Ulrike Davy & Benjamin Davy (2015) The politics of recognition: Changing understandings of human rights, social development and land rights as normative foundation of global social policy. /Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law/, 18: 565-600. Lutz Leisering & Armando Barrientos (2013) Social citizenship for the global poor? The worldwide spread of social assistance. /International Journal of Social Welfare/, 22(S1): S50-S67. Katrin Weible& Lutz Leisering (2012) South Africa's System of Social Cash Transfers. Assessing its Social Quality, in: Hans-Jürgen Burchardt, Anne Tittor & Nico Weinmann (eds.) /Sozialpolitik in globaler Perspektive. Asien, Afrika und Lateinamerika/,//Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 247-270. c) Forthcoming articles Lutz Leisering (2019/2020) Social cash transfers in the global South: a new instrument for alleviating poverty (commissioned for the Handbook of Poverty, ed. by Bent Greve) Lutz Leisering (2020) The quest for universalism in global social security (forthcoming in a special issue on universalism) d) Unpublished PhD theses Michael Leutelt (2017) Perspectives on Policy Transfer: “Dropping Stones, Making Waves”. How International Organizations Promote “Social Cash Transfer Programs” in the Global South. PhD thesis, University of Bielefeld Katrin Weible (2019) Differential Social Citizenship of the Poor: Social Cash Transfers Across the Global South (working title). PhD thesis, University of Bielefeld (forthcoming) ----------------------------- Research Group Understanding Southern Welfare, Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), Bielefeld University, Germany (www.uni-bielefeld.de/(en)/ZiF/FG/2018Welfare/index.html) Research Project How 'social' is Turkey? Turkey’s social security system in a European context (www.socialturkey.org) Research Group FLOOR-B (www.floorcash.org) New book: The Global Rise of Social Cash Transfers. How States and International Organizations Constructed a New Instrument for Combating Poverty. Oxford University Press (forthcoming) https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-global-rise-of-social-cash-transfers-9780198754336 New articles: (2018) A new pathway to universalism? Explaining the spread of ‘social’ pensions in the global South, 1967–2011. Journal of International Relations and Development (forthcoming, preview available) (with Tobias Böger) (2017) Synthesizing Disparate Ideas: How a Chinese Model of Social Assistance Was Forged. Global Social Policy 17(3), 307–327 (with Tao Liu, Tobias ten Brink) Prof. Lutz Leisering Ph.D. Bielefeld University Faculty of Sociology Institute for World Society Studies P.O.Box 100131 33501 Bielefeld Germany tel. ++49 521 106-3994 http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/soz/personen/leisering/ secretariat: Ms Lueck, tel.-3994 and -6911, fax -6474 private tel. ++49 521 8989789 Office: Building "X", room C2-221 (secretariat: C2-218) ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the EUROPEAN-SOCIAL-POLICY list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=EUROPEAN-SOCIAL-POLICY&A=1