CRC 1342: Global Dynamics of Social Policy

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15. Dec. 2023

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Long-term care policy challenges in the aftermath of the COVID pandemic and opportunities for cross-national learningAdelina Comas-Herrera (London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE))

23. Jan. 2024

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Diffusion of Disability Policies as Social RightDr. Jun-gi Heo (GwangJu Public Agency for Social Service - PASS)

31. Jan. 2024

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GATT/WTO and the Social Clause: Between Protectionism and Social WelfareProf. Lucia Coppolaro (University of Padua)

28. Feb. 2024

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Welfare and Inequality in Contemporary Southeast Asia: Paths to the Present and FutureProf. Jonathan London (Leiden University)

29. Feb. 2024

1. Mar. 2024

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Generosity of Social Policies in Socialist and Post-socialist StatesSonderforschungsbereich 1342 "Globale Entwicklungsdynamiken von Sozialpolitik", Universität Bremen

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Social Policy Dynamics in Iran

Dr. Yaser Bagheri, Assistant Professor of Social Policy at the University of Tehran, is currently on a seven-month study program in Germany. As part of the CRC 1342 Jour Fixe lecture series, he gave a talk on "Social Policy Dynamics in Iran" on December 6, 2023.

The opportunity to make a real contribution to research at the CRC 1342

In the framework of their mandatory internships Hüma Nauroozi and Ed Miller are part of the project A04 "Global Developments in Health Care Systems" from October to December, 2023. Hüma is a Bachelor student of Public Health in the 5th semester. Ed is a Master student of "Sozialpolitik" (Political Science) in the 3rd semester.

Job offer: Project B10 is looking for a student assistant

The project B10: "Armed Conflict and Dynamics of Social Policy" is looking for one or two research assistants for coding, collecting, and classifying data on fiscal expenditure and administrative appointments in Angola.

Global Varieties of Dualization – Historical Dynamics of Inclusion & Generosity in Social Policy

The workshop on "Global Varieties of Dualization – Historical Dynamics of Inclusion & Generosity in Social Policy" took place on November 13 and 14, 2023, at Bremen University. It was organized by Dr. Aline Grünewald, Dr. Tobias Böger (both from Bremen University and CRC 1342), Dr. Armin Müller (Constructor University and CRC 1342), and Prof. Dr. Paul Marx (University of Bonn).

How aid relationships may affect the sustainability of health programs in developing countries

Gulnaz Isabekova, research fellow in project B06 "Resource Boom and Social Policy in Authoritarian Regimes. A Means of Securing Regime Stability?", presented her book "Stakeholder Relationships and Sustainability. The Case of Health Aid to the Kyrgyz Republic" on November 24, 2023.

Reflexivity in Global Social Policy

John Berten and Anna Wolkenhauer have edited a special issue about "Reflexivity in Global Social Policy" which has just been published in the journal Global Social Policy. In the issue, which consists of an introduction, five papers, five forum contributions, and a Digest, the editors and authors explore the meaning, relevance, and difficulties of taking a reflexive look at Global Social Policy.

De-facto coverage and generosity of labor law in South Africa

Andrea Schäfer, researcher in the A03 project "Worlds of Labour: Coverage and Generosity of Employment Law", was on a research stay in Pretoria, Rosslyn, Johannesburg and Silverton from 27.02.2023 to 25.03.2023. On site she cooperated among others with the South African trade union "National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa" (NUMSA) and the Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria.

Immigrant social rights in Malaysia

In August and September 2023, Jakob Henninger completed a visiting researcher stay at the Universiti Sains Malaysia in Penang. As part of the CRC project B04 "Causes of Inclusion and Exclusion. Welfare State Rights of Immigrants in Global Comparison", he worked on a case study on immigrant social rights in Malaysia.

Exploring healthcare system introductions and historical developments in Kenya and Nigeria within the context of nation-building and post-colonialism

The workshop of the project A04 "Global Developments in Healthcare Systems" took place from 1.11.2023 to 3.11.2023 at the Haus der Wissenschaft, Bremen, and was organized by Lorraine Frisina-Doetter and Julian Götsch.

Effects of a social pension in Bangladesh

The doctoral researcher Heiner Salomon from the project A02 "Global Dynamics of Coverage and Generosity in Work-Injury Compensation, Unemployment and Old-Age Pensions" recently returned to Germany from his research trip to Bangladesh.

Effects of measurement errors in popular DMSP night-time lights in empirical political economy

John Gibson, Professor of Economics at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, visited the CRC 1342 on Thursday, October 26, 2023, for a Jour Fixe in the winter term 2023/24. In his talk he spoke about the uses and abuses of night-time light satellite data in the social sciences to measure economic activity and assess local inequality.

The Politics of Social Protection During Times of Crisis

To kick off the Jour Fixe in the winter term 2023/24, Prof. Merike Blofield (University of Hamburg) visited the CRC 1342 on Wednesday, October 11, 2023. During her lecture, she presented her current book "The Politics of Social Protection During Times of Crisis" published by Cambridge University Press in July 2023.

Labor regulations of socialist states in open-access

In the summer of 2023, three CRC 1342 sub-projects - namely project A03, A04 and B06 - jointly extracted the relevant information on the Soviet Union and the German Democratic Republic into two separate Excel files and published them on the Discuss Data platform.

Generosity and cost control in China's hospital payment reforms

Dr. Armin Müller and Prof. Dr. Tobias ten Brink from project B05 "Inclusion and Benefit Dynamics in the Chinese Welfare Regime" contributed an article in "Asian Politics & Policy".

Argentina's social policy for immigrants in the interwar period

Dr. Simon Gerards Iglesias, former Research Fellow at CRC 1342, wrote a chapter in Beate Althammer's anthology "Citizenship, Migration and Social Rights. Historical Experiences from the 1870s to the 1970s." This volume was published as part of the book series "Routledge Studies in Modern History".

Keonhi Son will be a visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies

A postdoctoral researcher from the A06 project “Pathways to Family Policy Universalism: Coverage and Generosity of Family Policies in a Global Perspective” will participate in the Visiting Researchers Program of the Max Planck Society for two months.

BERT, ChatGPT, LLMs: Discussion on current methods at European Political Science Association conference in Glasgow

Dr. Nils Düpont and Hannes Salzmann presented their paper “The Unforced Force of the Better Argument? Computationally Assessing Arguments in Parliamentary Debates” at the 13th Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association (EPSA).

Intersectionality, Precarity and Labour in the Global South

Dr. Dasten Julián Vejar from the Universidad Austral de Chile visited the CRC 1342: Global Dynamics of Social Policy last week. He gave a lecture about “Intersectionality, Precarity and Labour in the Global South: Perspectives from Latin America” and held a workshop on international networking as well as planning future research and teaching cooperation in universities of the Global South.

Creation of a social care network in the nineteenth century Peruvian army

As part of the CRC 1342’s jour fix, Prof. Natalia Sobrevilla Perea from the University of Kent presented her research on the social care network in the nineteenth century Peruvian army on 12th of July. In her presentation she gave insights into her forthcoming book "Armed citizens and citizens in arms, the military and the creation of Peru (1800-1870)" (Cambridge University Press).

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