Illiberal parties’ grasp on power has relied on economic and social policy as much as on the demise of checks and balances and the distortion of electoral rules. Research has so far overlooked the ways in which these parties attract formerly neglected social groups with their welfarist approach. This lack of attention is not only important in scientific terms but has political consequences. Democratic forces are often blind to realize what illiberal and autocratic leaders offer in material terms to masses. This presentation summarizes a decade of comparative research into the social policies of populist, illiberal and autocratizing rulers. Utilizing examples from the procedures, content and discourses of welfare reforms in Russia, Turkey, Hungary, Poland, and India, we show how illiberal and authoritarian incumbents shape their welfare states in different geopolitical settings, and build up popularity through social policy programs.

Dorottya Szikra is Research Professor and Head of Department at the Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest, and Visiting Professor at the Department of Gender Studies, CEU Vienna. She is teaching Welfare State and Gender under Undemocratic Rule and Critical Theory on Policy and Practice in 2023/2024. She is the country-lead of the ERC project WelfareExperiences analyzing how different welfare systems can affect people's mental health and chances of returning to work.

Szikra is also associated with CEU Democracy Institute where she led a CIVICA reseach project entitled Welfare, Democracy, and Populism under the COVID-19 Crisis (WELDECO). Szikra's main research field is welfare state and family policy development in Central and Eastern Europe. Between 2016 and 2020 she acted as the co-chair of the European Social Policy Analysis Network (ESPAnet). She has acted as a member of the editorial boards of various journals, including the European Journal of Social Security, the Hungarian on-line journal socio.hu and since 2020 the Journal of European Social Policy. Since 2021 she has served as a member of the EC commissioned High-Level Group on the future of social protection and of the welfare state in the EU.

PEW offers a platform to discuss early/unpublished papers that investigate the political economy, broadly construed, of social policy and inequality, with the ambition to bring together researchers at the SOCIUM and beyond, across methodological divides and with varying levels of experience.

The workshop format is as follows: Authors briefly introduce the background of the paper (1-2 minutes), a discussant shortly summarizes the paper and provides feedback (10-15 minutes), and subsequently we open to the audience. Papers are circulated one week in advance.

And most importantly, everyone is warmly welcome to attend!

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Countries in the Global South experienced a massive increase in immigration in the past decade, with more migrants ending up there than in the Global North. Within South America, over seven million Venezuelans have left their country since 2015, leading to an extraordinary scale of intraregional migration. During these same years, and due to the expansion of social programs, millions of citizens in the region accessed basic income and better-quality healthcare, many for the first time. This talk studies these dual trends and analyzes whether social policies effectively incorporate immigrants. Failing to provide newcomers with a basic standard of living produces social exclusion. It shows that immigrants have more impediments to accessing the welfare state than citizens, even for universal public health, but especially for targeted social assistance. This derives from a combination of political elites’ views around the degree to which immigrants “deserve” access to different types of policies. The research focuses on the barriers that immigrants face to accessing social policy in middle-income South American countries with high rates of immigration—Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Colombia. Barriers to access are measured through qualitative coding of social assistance, social pensions, and public healthcare that build on legal documents, information requests, and secondary literature from 1990 to 2023, and public officials’ views are measured through in-depth interviews. In analyzing barriers to accessing social policy, this study contributes to the literatures on comparative welfare states and immigration, as well as comparative social policy in middle income countries.

Sara Niedzwiecki is Associate Professor of Politics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She studies social policy, subnational politics, and immigration in Latin America. Sara is the author of Uneven Social Policies: The Politics of Subnational Variation in Latin America (2018, Cambridge University Press), which was awarded LASA's Donna Lee Van Cott Book Award from The Political Institutions Section and the International Public Policy Association's IPPA Book Award. She also co-authored Measuring Regional Authority: A Postfunctionalist Theory of Governance (Oxford University Press, 2016). Sara has authored and co-authored articles in Comparative Political Studies, Electoral Studies, Latin American Politics and Society, Studies in Comparative International Development, Regional and Federal Studies, PS: Political Science and Politics, International Political Science Review, among other peer-reviewed journals. During 2020-2021 academic year, Sara was a fellow at the University of Notre Dame’s Kellogg Institute for International Studies where she worked on a new project on social policy and immigration in South America. Website: saraniedzwiecki.com

If you cannot attend in person, it is possible to follow the lecture via Zoom:
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Meeting-ID: 636 2178 9671 Passcode: 452328

The participants will discuss Friederike Römer's draft paper "What drives migration? Revisiting the welfare magnet hypothesis using new measures of immigrant welfare rights".

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The participants will discuss Kerem Gabriel Öktem's, Johanna Kuhlmann's, Laura Andrea Alvárez Tobar's, Frank Nullmeier's and Delia González de Reufel's draft paper "How are groups constituted through social policy legislation? Exploring temporal sequences of inclusion into old-age protection in a global perspective".

The event is part of the programme of the Political Economy Workshop.
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Governments all around Europe responded to the COVID-19 pandemic with massive budgetary expansions. A third wave of Euro-austerity is imminent, however – just like in the first two episodes during the 1990s and after the Great Recession of 2008. Many are already concerned the pandemic will provide a trump card for conservative governments wishing to cutback welfare programs. Does the third episode of Euro-austerity after COVID-19 represent the final nail in the coffin of Europe’s welfare states? Or is this episode yet another ordinary blow these welfare states have grown to survive? I offer comparative historical insights for these hot-button policy questions based on my recent book Euro-Austerity and Welfare States. In the talk, I trace developments in social expenditures and social rights in the first episode of Euro-austerity in the run-up to Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) during the 1990s. I then show how governments reformed welfare states in Belgium, Greece, and Italy – countries where austerity’s impact was expected to be greatest. I close by discussing key takeaways from the politics of welfare state reform during the earlier episodes of Euro-austerity for the final Episode of Euro-austerity looming large after COVID-19.

About the speaker:

Tolga Bolukbasi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. Dr. Bolukbasi’s work cuts across the fields of comparative public policy and comparative political economy. His most recent research explores questions lying at the heart of distributive politics in Turkey in a comparative European perspective.

The participants will discuss Fabian Besche-Truthe's, Tobias Böger's and Johanna Fischer's draft paper "Sequence analysis of social policy adoptions".

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The participants will discuss Anna Wolkenhauer's draft paper "Policymaking without technocrats: peasants, the state, and farmer input subsidy reform in Zambia".

Discussant: Hudu Banikoi

The event is part of the programme of the Political Economy Workshop.
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The participants will discuss Helen Seitzer's and Tobias Böger's draft paper "Pathways towards caring countries. Mapping the diffusion of early childhood education and care entitlements".

The event is part of the programme of the Political Economy Workshop.
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Mehran Haji Mohammadian defended his doctoral dissertation in 2022 at the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University. His dissertation project "Retirement in Iran: From the Establishment of the Pension System to the Emergence of a New Life Course" was supervised by Prof. Dr. Alexandra Kaasch (Bielefeld University) and Dr. Rana Jawad (Bath University). His research interests include social policy in developing countries, informality, and the implementation of the Bismarckian social insurance system in the global south. He has published a book "Piri" (2019) an ethnographic study of older adults in Tehran. In 2016 he also published an article "Gender in a Justice-Centered Society: A Review of Abu-Hamid Ghazel's Ethical Views".

Mehran Haji Mohammadian is member of the B01 country expert network.

This event is part of  Political Economy Workshop series, The participants will discuss Gonzalo Arévalo Iglesias' draft paper "Labour market outsiders, downward intergenerational support through cohabitation, and social policy attitudes in Europe".

The paper is available upon request - please contact Johanna Kuhlmann or Jakob Frizell.

The participants will discuss Roy Karadag's draft paper "FAO, the World Bank and Food Questions in North Africa".

The paper is available upon request - please contact Johanna Kuhlmann or Jakob Frizell.

Deep and prolonged recessions put modern societies under immense pressure: such economic crises have the potential to make millions jobless, to produce mass poverty and thus to shake the foundations of social peace.

Consequently, economic depressions have provoked wide-ranging reactions in the field of social policy, destroying established institutions and at the same time opening up new and audacious paths for social policy development. The CRC 1342 workshop "Economic Crises and Social Policy in the Twentieth Century" sets out to explore the repercussions of economic crises on social policy from a trans- and cross-national and historical perspective.

The workshop will focus on the two most important worldwide recession phases of the twentieth century: the Great Depression of the late 1920s and 1930s and the crisis-ridden period spanning from the oil price shock of the early 1970s to the Asian financial crisis and the economic turmoil in Latin America at the end of the millennium. This allows us to examine how economic crises triggered social policy changes and how these fit into a larger context of state activities concerned with citizens’ welfare. We focus on policy shifts and long-lasting institutional breaks as well as the development of discourses and ideas and the emergence of discrete historical actors – collective and individual – who left their imprint on social policy development. The geographical scope is global and deliberately trans-cends the borders of the OECD. 

The full programme of the workshop is availabe here:
https://workshopeconomiccrisesandsocialpolicy.wordpress.com/programme/

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"Economic Crises and Social Policy in the Twentieth Century" will take place as a hybrid event from the 1st to 2nd December 2022 in Bremen. However, we would prefer to meet in person with as many participants as possible and will cover all travel and accommodation costs. The event will start and finish around lunchtime and include presentations and panel discussions. We intend to publish the results of the workshop. 

If you would like to attend the conference, please contact Claire Rostalski (Email: claire1@uni-bremen.de) to receive an invitation.

Organised by Prof. Dr. Delia González de Reufels and Prof. Dr. Cornelius Torp.

Members of the University of Bremen and BIGSSS at Jacobs University are cordially invited to the Oral Defense of Martín Cortina Escudero's PhD Thesis "Diverging Paths of Social Policy Development in Latin America States: A Case Study on Argentina and Mexico from the Colonial Times to the Early Post-World-War-II Period".

This defense will take place in hybrid mode, to receive the link please contact Martín directly (cortinae@uni-bremen.de).

The Examination Board is composed of:

• Prof. Dr. Philip Manow
  
• Prof. Dr. Delia González de Reufels
• Prof. Dr. Armando Barrientos
• Prof. Dr. Tobias ten Brink
• Dr. Johanna Kuhlmann
• Dr. Jakob Henninger
• Gonzalo Arevalo Iglesias

Prof. Dr. Becker is a Mercator Fellow in project B01, Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy in Munich, and honorary professor at the LMU. His research deals with national and European social law, including the development of social rights in the European Union, the modernization of the German social benefits systems, health law and the impact of migration for the welfare state.

In the context of the CRC different projects analyse legal texts from Labour Law and Social Law. Due to the different research questions of the projects there are differences in the exact mode of analysis. Through discussions with Prof. Becker, a leading expert for international social law, we would like to gain a better understanding of the opportunities and limitations of our approaches, as well as obtain a better grasp on the similarities and differences.

The workshop will be attended by members of projects that specifically work on the analysis of legal texts. In addition, we also invite researchers in other projects interested in the subject to join us. This promises to be a good opportunity to discuss an important subject touching upon issues of methodology and measurement from an interdisciplinary perspective with a high-profile legal scholar. We would like to apologize for the late notification. In case you would like to join the workshop please contact Kerem Gabriel Öktem (oektem@uni-bremen.de)

Kerem Öktem will give some insights from collecting data for the CWEP project, and Nils Düpont will share notes from the CWED2 data collection as well as some tempates.

This workshop is part of the Political Economy Workshop, orgainsed by Bastian Becker und Johanna Kuhlmann. Please get in touch with them to get access to the workshop and the readings circulated in advance.

Amanda Shriwise (Bremen University) and Carina Schmitt (SOCIUM) discuss the paper The Warfare-Welfare Nexus in British and French West African Colonies in the Course of the First and Second World Wars.

This event is part of the Political Economy Workshop series organized by Bastian Becker and Hanna Lierse. Please subscribe to our email newsletter, and get in touch if you would like to receive this week's reading or present your own work at a future workshop.

Political Economy Workshop: The paper "Emotions and the Politics of Social Policy Reform" by Johanna Kuhlmann and Peter Starke will be discussed.

Online Meeting via Zoom.

To receive this week’s reading, please subscribe to the Political Economy Workshop email newsletter or write an email to Bastian Becker and Hanna Lierse.

In dem Workshop wird über Beiträge für einen Sammelband zu Kausalen Mechanismen und Sozialversicherungsinstitutionen diskutiert.

In dem Workshop wird über Beiträge für einen Sammelband zu Kausalen Mechanismen und Sozialversicherungsinstitutionen diskutiert.

In der Woche vom 17. bis 22. Februar 2020 laden die Lehr- und Forschungsinstitute der Universität Bremen und der Jacobs University zur ersten Bremer Woche der Sozialwissenschaften ein! Rund um das Thema "Gesellschaften im Umbruch" beleuchten vielfältige Veranstaltungen aktuelle Bremer Forschungsschwerpunkte aus verschiedenen Blickwinkeln.

Das Programm richtet sich an Schüler*innen, Lehrkräfte, Studierende und die Öffentlichkeit in Bremen und "umzu". Alle Veranstaltungen sind kostenfrei. Zugehört, zugeschaut, gelernt, mitgemacht und diskutiert wird an der Universität Bremen, im Haus der Wissenschaft, im Internet, in Bremens Kneipen und im CITY 46. So vielfältig wie die Forschung und Lehre in Bremen, sind auch die Themen, die Sie im Lauf der Woche erwarten: Von PISA über soziale Bewegungen, NGOs und ihre Mittel der politischen Einflussnahme, Filterblasen, Leihmutterschaft und studentisches Wohnen bis hin zu Fragen des sozialen Zusammenhalts und der Digitalisierung der Sozialwissenschaften ist alles mit dabei.

The workshop will bring together CRC researchers in order to discuss papers for a planned Special Issue on causal mechanisms and transnational social policy dynamics.

In this colloquium Ricardo Bormann will discuss his paper "New Directions in Latin American Film History: The Intellectual Network of the Brazilian Film Critic Salles Gomes". Participants are expected to read Ricardo's paper in advance. Please contact Alex Veit (veit@uni-bremen.de) to get hold of the paper.

The Transnational & Area Studies-Colloquium is a new venue for interdisciplinary debate on pertinent questions of transnational scope and area studies relevance. Scholars and students meet on a monthly basis to discover new approaches and joint research interests. The colloquium is open to the interested public.

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In this TASC-Colloquium, Teresa Huhle's paper "The Transnational Formation of a Healthy Nation: Travelling Reformers in Uruguay (1903-1933)" will be discussed. Participants are expected to read Teresa's paper in advance. Please contact Alex Veit (veit@uni-bremen.de) to get hold of the paper.

The Transnational & Area Studies-Colloquium is a new venue for interdisciplinary debate on pertinent questions of transnational scope and area studies relevance. Scholars and students meet on a monthly basis to discover new approaches and joint research interests. The colloquium is open to the interested public, but please sign up with tas-colloquium@mailman.zfn.uni-bremen.de.

Der "Bremer Politikschnack" an der Uni Bremen ist ein neues Format, das den Austasuch zwischen Studierenden und Forschenden über aktuelle politische Themen jenseits der regulären Lehrveranstaltungen befördern soll.

Der 1. Politikschnack befasst sich mit sozialpolitischen Fragen: "Wie weit ist es nach Skandinavien? Was können wir vom nordischen Sozialstaat lernen?" Es diskutieren Johanna Kuhlmann (SFB 1342) & Aline Grünewald (SOCIUM) mit Studierenden der Politikwissenschaft.

9.00 – 10.45: Meeting of members and guests

• General information about the CRC
• State of the art: 3 books in the process (Schmitt, Leisering, Martens)
• Possible next book "A very short history of social policy" (Obinger, Nullmeier and González de Reufels)
• how to attract books from contributors outside the CRC
• Cover for the series
• Foreword (First draft by González de Reufels)
• Division of work and operational processes (Team and Palgrave)

10.45 – 11.00: Coffee break

11.00 – 12.00: Open Access
Benjamin Ahlborn (State- and University Library Bremen)

12:00: Slots for individual book projects

• 12:20 - 12:40: B08, Ewa Kaminska
• 12.20 – 12.40: BIGSSS (B09 affiliated), Anna Wolkenhauer

12.45 – 14.00: Lunch Atlantik Campus Restaurant

14:20: Individual book projects

• 14.20-14.40: A03, Ulrich Mückenberger, Irene Dingeldey
• 14.40-15.00: A05, Kerstin Martens, Fabian Besche
• 15.00-15.20: B06, Gulnaz Isabekova
• 15.20-15.40: A02, Nate Breznau
• 15:50-16:10: B05, Armin Müller
• 16:10-16:30: ERC, Lorraine Frisina (on behalf of Amanda Shriwise)
• 16.30-16.50: BIGSSS, Silvana Lakeman

The project members will discuss the schedules B-edited volume.

Aktuelle theoretische und methodische Entwicklungen in den Sozialwissenschaften fließen in den Ansatz der "mechanism-based explanation" ein. Ausgehend von verschiedenen Disziplinen wie der analytischen Soziologie, der politischen Soziologie, der vergleichenden historischen Analyse und der qualitativen Forschung in der Politikwissenschaft betonen mechanismenbasierte Ansätze, dass Phänomene nicht vollständig durch Korrelationen zwischen Variablen erklärt werden können: Kausalmechanismen sind die "Strippen und Zahnräder", auf die Wissenschaftler stoßen, wenn sie die "Black Box" der Korrelationen öffnen.

Trotz der wachsenden Literatur zu diesem Thema konnten zwei Defizite bisher nicht behoben werden:

1. Es gibt keine überzeugende Zusammenstellung von Mechanismen, die soziale und politische Prozesse vorantreiben. Frühere Vorschläge für eine umfassende Liste von Mechanismen sammeln Elemente auf sehr unterschiedlichen Maßstäben und Ebenen. Es gibt kein einheitliches Verständnis davon, welcher Ebene (Mikro-, Meso-, Makro-) Mechanismen zugeordnet werden sollten und welche Merkmale ein Mechanismus aufweisen sollte, um als solcher zu gelten.
2. Es fehlt auch an einer systematischen Anwendung mechanismusbasierter Ansätze auf ein ganzes Politikfeld. Bisher wurden mechanismenbasierte Ansätze vor allem in Einzelfällen oder vergleichenden Fallstudien mit begrenztem Umfang und Reichweite eingesetzt. Die Anwendung eines mechanismenbasierten Ansatzes zur Untersuchung der transnationalen Dynamik eines gesamten Politikfeldes könnte ein entscheidender Test für die Fruchtbarkeit mechanismenbasierter Ansätze sein.

Diese Konferenz soll die Diskussion über die Charakteristika kausaler Mechanismen anregen und eine engere Verbindung zwischen diesen Konzepten und der Untersuchung sozialpolitischer Entwicklungen herstellen.

PROGRAMM

Tag 1

9.00-9.30
Anmeldung and Kaffee

9.30-10.30
Gary Goertz, University of Notre Dame
The veil of ignorance – causal mechanism – process tracing methodology

Kaffeepause

10.45-12.15
Session 1: Theorizing Mechanisms (Chair: Johanna Kuhlmann)

1. Holger Straßheim, University of Bielefeld
   Transforming social policy (research): the mechanisms of micro-focusing (Discussant: Hubert Heinelt)
2. Johannes Schmitt, Martin Noltze, German Institute for Development Evaluation Causal mechanisms in evaluation: conceptual confusion, practical application and the way forward (Discussant: Heinz Rothgang)
3. Sebastian Haunss, University of Bremen
   Network mechanism driving the development of social policies (Discussant: Sarah Berens)

Mittagessen

13.30-14.30
Renate Mayntz, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
Promise and limits of mechanism-based explanation

Kaffeepause

14.45-16.15
Session 2: Mechanisms of Social Policy Dynamics – Single Case Studies (Chair: Heiko Pleines)

1. Olivier Burtin, LMU München/Princeton University
   Mechanisms of veterans’ policy in the United States: A comparative overview (Discussant: Teresa Huhle)
2. Ellen van Reuler, Leiden University
   English hospices and palliative care policies as a model for the Netherlands? (Discussant: Anna Safuta)
3. Tobias ten Brink¹, Armin Müller¹, Tao Liu², ¹Jacobs University Bremen, ²University Duisburg-Essen
   Policy experimentation and elite cooperation: Causal mechanisms in the making of China’s social insurance system (Discussant: Osmany Porto de Oliveira)
4. Sarah Berens, Franziska Deeg, University of Cologne
   Moving North and coming back. Migration and social policy preferences in Mexico (Discussant: Cecilia Rossel/Florencia Antía)

Kaffeepause

16.45-17.45
James Mahoney, Northwestern University
Causal mechanisms and theories of causality: Three approaches

Kaffeepause

18.00-19.30
Session 3: Mechanisms of Social Policy Dynamics – Comparative Approaches (Chair: Klaus Schlichte)

1. Traute Meyer, University of Southampton
   Industrialism revisited - Changing kinship systems and pension reform in China and Europe (Discussant: Tao Liu)
2. Robert van Niekerk¹, Reynaldo Jiménez Guethón², ¹University of Witwatersrand, ²University de La Habana
   Cultures of social solidarity and the public good: A reflection on South Africa and Cuba (Discussant: Armin Müller)
3. Heinz Rothgang, Karin Gottschall, Anna Safuta, Kristin Noack, Marlene Seiffarth, Greta-Marleen Storath, University of Bremen
   Migrantization of long-term care in Europe. On search of causal mechanisms (Discussant: Friederike Römer)

Konferenz Dinner im Ratskeller

Day 2
9.30-11.00
Session 4: Mechanisms of Social Policy Dynamics – Transnational Interdependencies (Chair: Frank Nullmeier)

1. Andreas Heinrich¹, Gulnaz Isabekova¹, Armin Müller², Heiko Pleines¹, Tobias ten Brink², ¹University of Bremen, ²Jacobs University Bremen
   Types of international policy-related knowledge transfer. From conditionality to elaborated autonomous policy learning (Discussant: Lutz Leisering)
2. Monika Ewa Kaminska, Ertila Druga, Ante Malinar, Liva Stupele, University of Bremen
   Reforms from within or reforms from without? Defying international organizations’ agenda in healthcare reforms in Central Eastern Europe: in search of causal mechanisms (Discussant: Andreas Heinrich)
3. Friederike Römer, Jakob Henninger, University of Bremen
   Democracy and immigrant rights - Conflicting mechanisms at play (Discussant: Sebastian Haunss)

Kaffeepause

11.15-12.30
Plenary Session: Could we hope to compile a list of basic causal mechanisms? (Chair: Karin Gottschall)

Peter Starke, University of Southern Denmark
Delia González de Reufels, Johanna Kuhlmann, Frank Nullmeier, Klaus Schlichte, University of Bremen

Mittagessen

13.45-15.15
Session 5: Mechanisms of Social Policy Dynamics in Latin America (Chair: Delia González de Reufels)

1. Osmany Porto de Oliveira, Federal University of São Paulo
   Mechanisms for social policy diffusion: theory and evidences from the Brazilian case (Discussant: Tobias ten Brink)
2. Cecilia Rossel¹, Florencia Antía², ¹Universidad Católica del Uruguay, ²Universidad de la República
   The politics of sanctioning the poor: Revealing causal mechanisms in Uruguay’s CCT programs (Discussant: Reynaldo Jiménez Guethón)
3. Sebastian Sirén, Stockholm University
   The Struggle over universalisation. Actors and institutions in the process towards health care reform in Bolivia (Discussant: Monika Ewa Kaminska)

Kaffeepause

15.30-16.30
Armando Barrientos, University of Manchester
The rise and fall of Bismarckian social policy in Latin America

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) pro-claimed the equality of all human beings in dignity and rights. The right to social security, however, has been tak-en more seriously only since the 2000s, through calls for "Social Security for All" and "Leaving no-one behind". The book investigates a major response, social cash transfers to the poor. The idea of simply giving money to the poor had been rejected by all major development organisations, but since the early 2000s, social cash transfers have mushroomed in the global South and on agendas of international organisations. How come? What programmes have emerged in which countries? How inclusive are the programmes? What models have international organiza-tions devised? Based on unique quantitative and qualitative data and on newly created concepts and indicators, the book takes stock of all identifiable cash transfers in all Southern countries and of the views of all major international organisations.

The volume argues that cash transfers reflect broader changes: new understandings of development, of human rights, of global risks, of the social responsibility of governments, and of universalism. Social cash transfers have turned the poor from objects of charity into rights-holders and agents of their own lives and of development. A repertoire of cash transfers has evolved that has enhanced social citizenship, but is limited by weak political commitments.The book also contributes to a general theory of social policy in development contexts, through a constructivist sociological approach that complements the dominant approaches from welfare economics and political economy and includes a theory of social assistance.

The Transnational & Area Studies-Colloquium is a new venue for interdisciplinary debate on pertinent questions of transnational scope and area studies relevance. Scholars and students meet on a monthly basis to discover new approaches and joint research interests. The colloquium is open to the interested public.

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The workshop will bring together CRC researchers in order to discuss papers for a planned Special Issue on causal mechanisms and transnational social policy dynamics.

The aim of the workshop is to bring together leading experts working on Northern, Central, and South America to discuss historical and contemporary developments in health and long term care. In line with the research programme of CRC 1342, we are especially interested in discussing the potential role of transnational linkages or interdependencies that contributed to the introduction and any subsequent reforms of health and/or long term care systems within the region. As this also necessitates an understanding of what systems actually looked like at the time of their establishment - however embryonic - another aim of the workshop is to address the challenges of identifying and/or generating reliable data, particularly for Central and South America, as well as for a period of observation that may date back to as early as the turn of the 20th Century.

Attendance by invitation only.

PROGRAM

Day 1 Workshop, Room 3.3380

10:00-10:30
Introductory remarks & welcome
by Prof. Dr. Heinz Rothgang

10:30-11:15
Introduction to A04 Project "Global developments in health care systems and long
term care as a new social risk"
by Dr. Lorraine Frisina-Doetter and Prof. Dr. Sebastian Haunss

11:15-11:30
Coffee break, Room 3.3390

11:30-12:30
Healthcare system developments in the Caribbean
Presentation by Dr. Elsada Diana Cassels

12:30-13:45
Lunch break, Room 3.3390

13:45-16:15
Healthcare system developments in Brazil
Presentations by Dr. Dick Salvatierra, Dr. José Carvalho de Noronha and Dr. Beatriz Nascimento

16:15-16:45
Welcome drink

Day 2 Workshop, Room 3.3380

9:00-11:00
Health care and long-term care system developments in the United States
Presentations by Dr. Ben Veghte and Dr. Pamela Doty

11:00-11:15
Coffee break, Room 3.3390

11:15-12:00
Introduction to B02 Project "Emergence, Expansion, and Transformation of the
Welfare State in the Cono Sur in Exchange with (Southern) Europe (1850–1990)"
by Prof. Dr. Delia Gonzalez de Reufels

12:00-13:15
Lunch break, Room 3.3390

13:30-15:45
Health and long-term care system developments in Chile
Presentations by Prof. Dr. Alejandra Zúñiga Fajuri, Dr. Mauricio Matus-Lopez and Dr. Pablo Villalobos Dintrans

15:45-16:00: Coffee break, Room 3.3390

16:00-17:45
Roundtable discussion (topic tba)
led by Prof. Dr. Delia Gonzalez de Reufels

19:00
Dinner at Ratskeller Restaurant, Address: Am Markt, 28195 Bremen

Day 3 Workshop, Room 3.3380

9:30-10:30
The significance of LTC as a new field of analysis and presentation of A04 typology of long-term care systems
Presentation by Prof. Dr. Heinz Rothgang and Johanna Fischer

10:30-10:45
Coffee break, Room 3.3390

10:45-12:45
Long-term care system developments in Costa Rica and Uruguay
Presentations by Dr. Mauricio Matus-Lopez and Alexander Chaverri-Carvajal

12:45-14:00
Lunch Break, Room 3.3390

14:00-15:45
Healthcare system developments in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Cuba
Presentation by Dr. Pol de Vos

15:45-16:15
Coffee break, Room 3.3390

16:15-16:45
Presentation of A04 healthcare systems typology by Dr. Achim Schmid and Gabriela de Carvalho

16:45-17:45
Final roundtable discussion on the challenges of researching and classifying systems of the Global South
led by Dr. Lorraine Frisina-Doetter and Prof. Dr. Sebastian Haunss

17:45-18:15
Closing remarks by Prof. Dr. Delia Gonzalez de Reufels

19:00-21:00
Sightseeing tour/group activity, tba

Informed consent is usually an ethical and legal requirement for social research, and researchers are expected to obtain consent from people to participate in research and for the use of the information collected. Yet, with the new EU General Data Protection Regulation, the legal framework for informed consent has changed considerably. In this workshop, Jan-Ocko Heuer from Qualiservice will deal with key issues regarding informed consent for research and data storing/sharing with Qualiservice (the Research Data Centre for qualitative data from social research currently implemented at the SOCIUM). Topics include: legal framework; core principles of consent; formats for consent; when to seek consent; informing participants; consent in special cases; consent forms; withdrawing consent. It is recommended that from each (qualitative) research project that plans to archive data at Qualiservice, one researcher should attend the workshop. Registration is not required.

Dieser interne Workshop des Projektbereichs B dient dem Austausch der fallstudienzentrierten Teilprojekte und der Anwendung und Weiterentwicklung der theoretischen Konzepte zu Kausalketten und Kausalmechanismen.

For attending the workshop, it is necessary to read Derek Beach's latest book "Process-Tracing Methods: Foundations and Guidelines" (2nd edition), which he co-edited with Rasmus Brun Pedersen, and to shortly present a causal mechanism that is relevant to the participant's project.

Dieser interne Workshop des Projektbereichs B dient dem Austausch der fallstudienzentrierten Teilprojekte und der Anwendung und Weiterentwicklung der theoretischen Konzepte zu Kausalketten und Kausalmechanismen.

Dieser interne Workshop des Projektbereichs B dient dem Austausch der fallstudienzentrierten Teilprojekte und der Anwendung und Weiterentwicklung der theoretischen Konzepte zu Kausalketten und Kausalmechanismen.

Dieser interne Workshop des Projektbereichs B dient dem Austausch der fallstudienzentrierten Teilprojekte und der Anwendung und Weiterentwicklung der theoretischen Konzepte zu Kausalketten und Kausalmechanismen.

09:15-09:30 Welcome
Delia González de Reufels

09:30-09:50 Promoting the ‚Model Country‘: The Visualization of Uruguayan Public Assistance Policies in the República Batllista (1903-1932)
Teresa Huhle
09:50-10:15 Discussion

10:15-10:35 Working for a Healthy and Modern Nation: The Chilean Instituto de Higiene and the Official Photo Book of 1910
Delia González de Reufels
10:35-11:00 Discussion

11:00-11:20 Coffee Break

11:20-11:40 Social Policy for Productivity. The Figure of the Worker in the Visual Propaganda of Fascist Italy and Peronist Argentina (1922-1955)
Katharina Schembs
11:40-12:05 Discussion

12:05-12:25 For a Healthy and Hygienic Post-Revolutionary Citizen. Cinema and Hygienic Education in Mexico from the 1920s to 1940s
María Rosa Gudiño Cejudo
12:25-12:50 Discussion

13:00-14:30 Lunch Break and Coffee

14:30-14:50 Film as Instrument of Social Enquiry. The British Documentary Film Movement in the Late 1930s
Christine Rüffert
14:50-15:15 Discussion

15:15-15:35 "In Any Case, the Fees Are the Same for All": Physicians and the Welfare State in Early French TV Broadcasts
Joël Danet
15:35-16:00 Discussion

16:00-16:15 Coffee Break

16:15-17:00 Concluding Remarks and Final Discussion
Delia González de Reufels

Dieser interne Workshop des Projektbereichs B dient dem Austausch der fallstudienzentrierten Teilprojekte und der Anwendung und Weiterentwicklung der theoretischen Konzepte zu Kausalketten und Kausalmechanismen.

Der Historiker Kiran Klaus Patel von der Universität Maastricht stellt sein aktuelles Buch "The New Deal. A Global History" vor. Zur Vorbereitung lesen die Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer Teile des Buches, um sie mit Kiran Klaus Patel im Workshop zu diskutieren. Die zu besprechenden Passagen und die Leitfragen werden rechtzeitig kommuniziert.

Anmeldung: Die Plätze in diesem Workshop sind begrenzt. Interessenten melden sich bitte per E-Mail bei Prof. Dr. Delia González de Reufels an: dgr@uni-bremen.de.

"King Cotton" ist nicht nur eine mitreissende Erzählung der Geschichte der globalen Vermarktlichung und Industrialisierung von Baumwolle sowie eine alternative Erklärung für das Phänomen der Durchsetzung des globalen Kapitalismus, sondern das Buch offeriert Möglichkeiten, über den engeren Kreis des Themas hinaus weiterzudenken.

Einige diese Möglichkeiten mit Blick auf den "anderen Teil" des Kapitalismus, der (oft auch fehlenden oder unzureichenden) Sozialpolitik und des Wohlfahrtsstaates sollen in dieser Veranstaltung vorgestellt und diskutiert werden.

Weitere Informationen: Programm "Eine Uni - Ein Buch - Eine Stadt"