Lutz Leisering
Biographic Data
| ID | 253117 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lutz Leisering |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lutz |
| FAMILY NAME | Leisering |
| SIGNATURE | LEISERING L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bielefeld University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4781-3741 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 94 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Emerging social assistance regimes in middle income countries: Turkey in comparative perspective
Countries in the global South have expanded social security significantly since the late 1990s. What kind of social security are they heading for? Are they following models from the global North, or are genuinely Southern models building up? Focussing on middle income countries (MIC) and on the last safety net, social assistance, the article investigates the social assistance regime that has emerged in Turkey and situates the Turkish case in the …
One Hundred Years of Social Protection: The Changing Social Question in Brazil, India, China, and South Africa
This volume sheds light on social protection in the global South, investigating the experiences of four middle-income countries - Brazil, India, China and South Africa - from 1920 to 2020, analysing if, when, and how these countries articulated a concern about social issues and social cohesion.
One Hundred Years of Social Protection: The Rise of the Social Question in Brazil, India, China, and South Africa, 1920–2020
This chapter concludes the volume on social protection in Brazil, India, China, and South Africa, 1920–2020. The main findings are: (1) Historical evolution—the hundred years from 1920 to 2020 mark the century of the rise of social protection in the four countries. (2) The social construction of the social—all four countries, with the exception of India, have articulated social issues in a generalised way as a social question. (3) Political langu…
Social protection responses by states and international organisations to the Covid-19 crisis in the global South: Stopgap or new departure
Macro events like the Great Depression in the 1930s and the Second World War have triggered new departures in social policy. What about the COVID-19 pandemic and the attendant socio-economic crisis? This article analyses the social protection measures taken by governments in the global South in response to the crisis, the social protection concepts developed by international organisations, and the overall strategies of the organisations in view o…
The Calls for Universal Social Protection by International Organizations: Constructing a New Global Consensus
Universalism has become a lead idea of global social politics, and of global social security in particular, first voiced in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 and renewed in recent calls for “Social Security for All” and “Universal Health Coverage,” and in the Global Partnership for Universal Social Protection to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals launched by the World Bank and the International Labour Organization in 2016. …
One Hundred Years of Social Protection: The Changing Social Question in Brazil, India, China, and South Africa
The Global Rise of Social Cash Transfers: How States and International Organizations Constructed a New Instrument for Combating Poverty
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) proclaimed the equality of all human beings in dignity and rights. The right to social security, however, has been taken 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 organiza…
A new pathway to universalism? Explaining the spread of ‘social’ pensions in the global South, 1967–2011
Synthesizing disparate ideas: How a Chinese model of social assistance was forged
In 1993, the Shanghai government introduced a minimum income security program, causing contagious imitative behaviors in scores of local pilot projects in China. Invigorated by such local policy experiments, the central government in 1999 set up a Minimum Living Standard Scheme covering all urban regions and, from 2007, rural areas. In the process of designing this scheme, the Chinese epistemic social policy community translated foreign ideas int…
Protecting injured workers: How global ideas of industrial accident insurance travelled to China
Industrial accident insurance establishes an individual right to protection against a key risk of industrial modernity. Introduced in Imperial Germany in 1884, accident insurance became a global model, promoted by the International Labour Organization. In 2004, China adopted the German and ILO models of accident insurance, although individual rights are not rooted in Confucianism or Sino-Communism. Drawing on theories of global knowledge diffusio…
Social policy by numbers. How international organisations construct global policy proposals
Considering the socio‐economic and cultural diversity of the world, it is a bold undertaking by international organisations to propose welfare policies designed to apply to all or many countries. We argue that since the 1990s, new instruments of quantification have extended the knowledge base of international organisations, helping them to design and communicate policy proposals with a global scope. We map these numerical instruments in the field…
Constructing new global models of social security: How international organizations defined the field of social cash transfers in the 2000s
Social cash transfers to the poor have mushroomed in countries of the global South and on global agendas since the 2000s. Around 2000, there was no clear picture if social cash transfers would make it to global agendas. By the end of the 2000s, a repertoire of four models of social cash transfers had been codified by international organizations. Based on an in-depth analysis of all major documents by international organizations and applying a mod…
Social Policy, Welfare State
“Welfare state” and “social policy” are generalizing concepts that legitimize political intervention in view of protecting the weaker members of society, reducing social inequalities, and promoting human capacities for action and self‐reliance. The contemporary welfare state is the institutional expression of a political system committing itself to human rights, including social rights. Social policy is the generic name for strategies to solve so…
Social citizenship for the global poor? The worldwide spread of social assistance
The notion of citizenship has universalistic claims, but in practice citizenship goes along with exclusions. Households in poverty are a test case. Social assistance for those in poverty is a rather unlikely source of citizenship because it blends inclusion and exclusion, decommodification and commodification. But we argue that the development of social assistance since the 1950s (in the global North) and since the late 1990s (in the global South…
The global, the social and rights. New perspectives on social citizenship
This G uest E ditorial explores whether the concept of citizenship, which originated in the city and the nation‐state, travels to the globe and what global citizenship could mean. Introducing a collection of related articles, we focus on social citizenship. We discuss conceptual issues, including modifications of T. H. M arshall's concept of social citizenship, and point at empirical evidence that global social citizenship is taking shape: Intern…
"The "Social: The Global Career of an Idea
This special issue assembles contributions from the global North and South to inquire into the future of the "social" from an interdisciplinary perspective, drawing on sociology, political science and law. What does "social" mean, and do social policy and the welfare state have a future in a global age? The issue is published on the occasion of the eightieth birthday of Franz-Xaver Kaufmann, who is considered the doyen of the sociology of social …
Dynamik von Armut
Seit den 1990er Jahren hat sich in Europa eine „dynamische“ Armutsforschung entwickelt, die Einkommensarmut, Sozialhilfebezug und Deprivation im Längsschnitt untersucht (Verlaufsanalysen anhand von Mikrodaten). Die dynamische Forschung zeigt, dass Armutslagen beweglicher sind als in öffentlichen und wissenschaftlichen Debatten lange (und teilweise noch heute) angenommen. Die dynamische Sicht hat die Messung von Armut, die Analyse von Armut, Armut…
Pension privatization in a welfare state environment: Socializing private pensions in Germany and the United Kingdom
The interpretation of the move towards privatizing social services in European welfare states is controversial: “surrender of public responsibility” or “welfare ends through market means”? This article argues that the “social” import of private pensions cannot be assessed in isolation; rather it depends on the overall institutional arrangement of old-age security in a country. The “social” regulation of private pensions and the coordination of pu…
Germany: A Centrist Welfare State at the Crossroads
Since the late nineteenth century, Germany has undergone more drastic changes, both of political regime and territory, than most countries. During four decades after the Second World War there were two diametrically opposed regimes coexisting within Germany. Imperial Germany, the Reich (1871–1918), was followed by the Weimar Republic, the first German democracy (1919–33), and by National Socialism, the Third Reich (1933–45). After a period of occ…
Extending Social Security to the Excluded: Are Social Cash Transfers to the Poor an Appropriate Way of Fighting Poverty in Developing Countries
Formal social security in developing countries has long been centred on employees in the formal sector of the economy. The majority of the population has been excluded. Since the 2000s international organizations have called for extending the coverage of social security. This article analyses a recent strategy of extending social security, social cash transfers (SCT) to the poor. The article traces the rise of SCT as a global issue, then describe…
Innenansichten eines Wohlfahrtsmarkts: Strukturwandel der privaten Altersvorsorge und die Ordnungsvorstellungen der Anbieter
Dynamik von Armut
AuszugSeit den 1990er Jahren hat sich in Europa, basierend auf US-amerikanischen Vorbildern, eine dynamische Armutsforschung entwickelt, die Einkommensarmut, Sozialhilfebezug und Deprivation im Längsschnitt untersucht (Verlaufsanalysen anhand von Mikrodaten). Die dynamische Forschung zeigt, dass Armutslagen beweglicher sind als in öffentlichen und wissenschaftlichen Debatten lange (und vielfach noch heute) angenommen. In der älteren Armutsforschu…
Government and the Life Course
Soziale Grundsicherung in der Weltgesellschaft: Monetäre Mindestsicherungssysteme in den Ländern des Südens und des Nordens. Weltweiter Survey und theoretische Verortung
Auch Sozialpolitik globalisiert sich. Das Buch zeigt, dass sozialhilfe- und rentenartige Grundsicherungssysteme nicht nur in entwickelten, sondern auch in Entwicklungs- und Übergangsgesellschaften wirksame Instrumente der Armutsbekämpfung sein können. Direkte Geldleistungen etwa an von AIDS betroffene Familien, alleinerziehende Frauen und Alte können auch entwicklungspolitisch produktiv sein. Das Buch gibt erstmals einen weltweiten Überblick über…
Nation State and Welfare State: An Intellectual and Political History
Social citizenship for the global poor? The worldwide spread of social assistance
The notion of citizenship has universalistic claims, but in practice citizenship goes along with exclusions. Households in poverty are a test case. Social assistance for those in poverty is a rather unlikely source of citizenship because it blends inclusion and exclusion, decommodification and commodification. But we argue that the development of social assistance since the 1950s (in the global North) and since the late 1990s (in the global South…
Social protection responses by states and international organisations to the Covid-19 crisis in the global South: Stopgap or new departure
Macro events like the Great Depression in the 1930s and the Second World War have triggered new departures in social policy. What about the COVID-19 pandemic and the attendant socio-economic crisis? This article analyses the social protection measures taken by governments in the global South in response to the crisis, the social protection concepts developed by international organisations, and the overall strategies of the organisations in view o…
Synthesizing disparate ideas: How a Chinese model of social assistance was forged
In 1993, the Shanghai government introduced a minimum income security program, causing contagious imitative behaviors in scores of local pilot projects in China. Invigorated by such local policy experiments, the central government in 1999 set up a Minimum Living Standard Scheme covering all urban regions and, from 2007, rural areas. In the process of designing this scheme, the Chinese epistemic social policy community translated foreign ideas int…
A new pathway to universalism? Explaining the spread of ‘social’ pensions in the global South, 1967–2011
The global, the social and rights. New perspectives on social citizenship
This G uest E ditorial explores whether the concept of citizenship, which originated in the city and the nation‐state, travels to the globe and what global citizenship could mean. Introducing a collection of related articles, we focus on social citizenship. We discuss conceptual issues, including modifications of T. H. M arshall's concept of social citizenship, and point at empirical evidence that global social citizenship is taking shape: Intern…
Extending Social Security to the Excluded: Are Social Cash Transfers to the Poor an Appropriate Way of Fighting Poverty in Developing Countries
Formal social security in developing countries has long been centred on employees in the formal sector of the economy. The majority of the population has been excluded. Since the 2000s international organizations have called for extending the coverage of social security. This article analyses a recent strategy of extending social security, social cash transfers (SCT) to the poor. The article traces the rise of SCT as a global issue, then describe…
Constructing new global models of social security: How international organizations defined the field of social cash transfers in the 2000s
Social cash transfers to the poor have mushroomed in countries of the global South and on global agendas since the 2000s. Around 2000, there was no clear picture if social cash transfers would make it to global agendas. By the end of the 2000s, a repertoire of four models of social cash transfers had been codified by international organizations. Based on an in-depth analysis of all major documents by international organizations and applying a mod…
Nation State and Welfare State: An Intellectual and Political History
Social policy by numbers. How international organisations construct global policy proposals
Considering the socio‐economic and cultural diversity of the world, it is a bold undertaking by international organisations to propose welfare policies designed to apply to all or many countries. We argue that since the 1990s, new instruments of quantification have extended the knowledge base of international organisations, helping them to design and communicate policy proposals with a global scope. We map these numerical instruments in the field…
Protecting injured workers: How global ideas of industrial accident insurance travelled to China
Industrial accident insurance establishes an individual right to protection against a key risk of industrial modernity. Introduced in Imperial Germany in 1884, accident insurance became a global model, promoted by the International Labour Organization. In 2004, China adopted the German and ILO models of accident insurance, although individual rights are not rooted in Confucianism or Sino-Communism. Drawing on theories of global knowledge diffusio…
Pension privatization in a welfare state environment: Socializing private pensions in Germany and the United Kingdom
The interpretation of the move towards privatizing social services in European welfare states is controversial: “surrender of public responsibility” or “welfare ends through market means”? This article argues that the “social” import of private pensions cannot be assessed in isolation; rather it depends on the overall institutional arrangement of old-age security in a country. The “social” regulation of private pensions and the coordination of pu…
Demographic changes as a problem for social security systems
The relationship between demographic changes and the social security system is explored. The focus is on the current situation in the Federal Republic of Germany, but consideration is also given to comparable developments in other developed countries. Emphasis is placed on how changes in the age distribution of modern populations affect the relative proportion of the productive and the dependent populations
Innenansichten eines Wohlfahrtsmarkts: Strukturwandel der privaten Altersvorsorge und die Ordnungsvorstellungen der Anbieter
Diskussion. Armut und Arbeitsmarkt: Wo ist der Zusammenhang? Ein Diskussionsbeitrag zu dem Aufsatz von Rolf G. Heinze et al. (ZfS Juli 1981)
Der vorliegende Beitrag entwickelt aus der Kritik des Aufsatzes von Heinze et al. über den Zusammenhang von Armut und Arbeitsmarkt (in ZfS 10 (1981): 219-243) einen Ansatz zur Analyse der sozialstrukturellen Bedingungen von Armut. Die theoretisch-konzeptionelle Kritik richtet sich zum einen auf die mangelnde analytische Unterscheidung zwischen der Armuts- und der Ungleichheitsproblematik, zum andern auf die Hypostasierung der Weberschen Klassenth…
Demographic changes as a problem for social security systems
The relationship between demographic changes and the social security system is explored. The focus is on the current situation in the Federal Republic of Germany, but consideration is also given to comparable developments in other developed countries. Emphasis is placed on how changes in the age distribution of modern populations affect the relative proportion of the productive and the dependent populations
Armutspolitik und Sozialhilfe in vier Jahrzehnten
Armutsbekämpfung ist der kleinste gemeinsame Nenner der westlichen Wohlfahrtsstaaten. In den Ländern des sogenannten poverty approach, besonders in den USA und mit Einschränkungen in Großbritannien, sind die unteren Einkommensschichten die primären Adressaten sozialer Sicherungsmaßnahmen, während die bundesrepublikanische Sozialpolitik darüber hinaus und schwerpunktmäßig auf eine Statussicherung der mittleren und auch höheren Einkommensbezieher z…
Individualisierung und „sekundäre Institutionen“ — der Sozialstaat als Voraussetzung des modernen Individuums
Die These von Ulrich Beck, daß wir in Deutschland nach dem 2. Weltkrieg einen Individualisierungsschub erleben, wird bis heute kontrovers diskutiert. Eine Kritik geht dahin, daß hier eine individualistische Vorstellung von Gesellschaft zugrundeliege, die gegenüber Strukturen und Institutionen blind sei.1 Demgegenüber hatte Beck bereits in der Risikogesellschaft (1986) betont, daß individualisierte Lebensformen institutionell konstituiert sind, un…
Sozialstaat und Individualisierung
Eine verbreitete Kritik an der Individualisierungsthese läuft darauf hinaus, daß sie eine Vorstellung freischwebender Individualität beinhalte, also eine voluntaristische Sicht von Freiheit und Chancenoffenheit in modernen westlichen Gesellschaften. In der Auseinandersetzung mit Günter Burkart haben Ulrich Beck und Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim diese Sicht als ein “individualistisches Mißverständnis der Individualisierungsdebatte” bezeichnet (1993: 18…
Der deutsche Sozialstaat
„Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland ist ein demokratischer und sozialer Bundesstaat“(Art. 20 (1) GG). „Die verfassungsmäßige Ordnung in den Ländern muß den Grundsätzen des republikanischen, demokratischen und sozialen Rechtsstaates im Sinne dieses Grundgesetzes entsprechen“(Art. 28 (1) GG). Das unscheinbare Adjektiv „sozial“, im Herrenchiemseer Verfassungsentwurf gar nicht enthalten und im Parlamentarischen Rat kaum debattiert, ist der verfassungsrec…
Wohlfahrtsstaatliche Generationen
Einschneidende wirtschaftliche Ereignisse prägen die Gestalt einer Generation. Wir sprechen von der ‚Wirtschaftswundergeneration‘ oder, so Glen Elder in seiner bahnbrechenden Studie für die USA, von den „children of the great depression“ (1974, 1999). Auch politische und kulturelle Konstellationen können Generationen konstituieren, so im Fall der „skeptischen Generation“ (Schelsky) und den „68ern“ (Bude 1995). Der von Karl Mannheim in seinem grun…
Exklusion” — Elemente einer soziologischen Rekonstruktion
Westliche Gesellschaften beschreiben sich in den 90er Jahren zunehmend in Begriffen sozialer Spaltung und Ausgrenzung. Hierbei werden die Begriffe Polarisierung, underclass und vor allem Exklusion, social exclusion, exclusion sociale, Ausschließung oder Ausgrenzung benutzt. Dieser Beitrag konzentriert sich auf den Begriff Exklusion, da er soziologisch am anschlußfähigsten ist und zugleich Begriffe wie Polarisierung und underclass und die mit ihne…
Time and Poverty in Western Welfare States: United Germany in Perspective
Nation State and Welfare State: An Intellectual and Political History
Soziale Grundsicherung in der Weltgesellschaft: Monetäre Mindestsicherungssysteme in den Ländern des Südens und des Nordens. Weltweiter Survey und theoretische Verortung
Auch Sozialpolitik globalisiert sich. Das Buch zeigt, dass sozialhilfe- und rentenartige Grundsicherungssysteme nicht nur in entwickelten, sondern auch in Entwicklungs- und Übergangsgesellschaften wirksame Instrumente der Armutsbekämpfung sein können. Direkte Geldleistungen etwa an von AIDS betroffene Familien, alleinerziehende Frauen und Alte können auch entwicklungspolitisch produktiv sein. Das Buch gibt erstmals einen weltweiten Überblick über…
Government and the Life Course
Dynamik von Armut
AuszugSeit den 1990er Jahren hat sich in Europa, basierend auf US-amerikanischen Vorbildern, eine dynamische Armutsforschung entwickelt, die Einkommensarmut, Sozialhilfebezug und Deprivation im Längsschnitt untersucht (Verlaufsanalysen anhand von Mikrodaten). Die dynamische Forschung zeigt, dass Armutslagen beweglicher sind als in öffentlichen und wissenschaftlichen Debatten lange (und vielfach noch heute) angenommen. In der älteren Armutsforschu…
Germany: A Centrist Welfare State at the Crossroads
Since the late nineteenth century, Germany has undergone more drastic changes, both of political regime and territory, than most countries. During four decades after the Second World War there were two diametrically opposed regimes coexisting within Germany. Imperial Germany, the Reich (1871–1918), was followed by the Weimar Republic, the first German democracy (1919–33), and by National Socialism, the Third Reich (1933–45). After a period of occ…
Extending Social Security to the Excluded: Are Social Cash Transfers to the Poor an Appropriate Way of Fighting Poverty in Developing Countries
Formal social security in developing countries has long been centred on employees in the formal sector of the economy. The majority of the population has been excluded. Since the 2000s international organizations have called for extending the coverage of social security. This article analyses a recent strategy of extending social security, social cash transfers (SCT) to the poor. The article traces the rise of SCT as a global issue, then describe…
Innenansichten eines Wohlfahrtsmarkts: Strukturwandel der privaten Altersvorsorge und die Ordnungsvorstellungen der Anbieter
Dynamik von Armut
Seit den 1990er Jahren hat sich in Europa eine „dynamische“ Armutsforschung entwickelt, die Einkommensarmut, Sozialhilfebezug und Deprivation im Längsschnitt untersucht (Verlaufsanalysen anhand von Mikrodaten). Die dynamische Forschung zeigt, dass Armutslagen beweglicher sind als in öffentlichen und wissenschaftlichen Debatten lange (und teilweise noch heute) angenommen. Die dynamische Sicht hat die Messung von Armut, die Analyse von Armut, Armut…
Pension privatization in a welfare state environment: Socializing private pensions in Germany and the United Kingdom
The interpretation of the move towards privatizing social services in European welfare states is controversial: “surrender of public responsibility” or “welfare ends through market means”? This article argues that the “social” import of private pensions cannot be assessed in isolation; rather it depends on the overall institutional arrangement of old-age security in a country. The “social” regulation of private pensions and the coordination of pu…
Social citizenship for the global poor? The worldwide spread of social assistance
The notion of citizenship has universalistic claims, but in practice citizenship goes along with exclusions. Households in poverty are a test case. Social assistance for those in poverty is a rather unlikely source of citizenship because it blends inclusion and exclusion, decommodification and commodification. But we argue that the development of social assistance since the 1950s (in the global North) and since the late 1990s (in the global South…
The global, the social and rights. New perspectives on social citizenship
This G uest E ditorial explores whether the concept of citizenship, which originated in the city and the nation‐state, travels to the globe and what global citizenship could mean. Introducing a collection of related articles, we focus on social citizenship. We discuss conceptual issues, including modifications of T. H. M arshall's concept of social citizenship, and point at empirical evidence that global social citizenship is taking shape: Intern…
"The "Social: The Global Career of an Idea
This special issue assembles contributions from the global North and South to inquire into the future of the "social" from an interdisciplinary perspective, drawing on sociology, political science and law. What does "social" mean, and do social policy and the welfare state have a future in a global age? The issue is published on the occasion of the eightieth birthday of Franz-Xaver Kaufmann, who is considered the doyen of the sociology of social …
Social Policy, Welfare State
“Welfare state” and “social policy” are generalizing concepts that legitimize political intervention in view of protecting the weaker members of society, reducing social inequalities, and promoting human capacities for action and self‐reliance. The contemporary welfare state is the institutional expression of a political system committing itself to human rights, including social rights. Social policy is the generic name for strategies to solve so…
Social policy by numbers. How international organisations construct global policy proposals
Considering the socio‐economic and cultural diversity of the world, it is a bold undertaking by international organisations to propose welfare policies designed to apply to all or many countries. We argue that since the 1990s, new instruments of quantification have extended the knowledge base of international organisations, helping them to design and communicate policy proposals with a global scope. We map these numerical instruments in the field…
Constructing new global models of social security: How international organizations defined the field of social cash transfers in the 2000s
Social cash transfers to the poor have mushroomed in countries of the global South and on global agendas since the 2000s. Around 2000, there was no clear picture if social cash transfers would make it to global agendas. By the end of the 2000s, a repertoire of four models of social cash transfers had been codified by international organizations. Based on an in-depth analysis of all major documents by international organizations and applying a mod…
Synthesizing disparate ideas: How a Chinese model of social assistance was forged
In 1993, the Shanghai government introduced a minimum income security program, causing contagious imitative behaviors in scores of local pilot projects in China. Invigorated by such local policy experiments, the central government in 1999 set up a Minimum Living Standard Scheme covering all urban regions and, from 2007, rural areas. In the process of designing this scheme, the Chinese epistemic social policy community translated foreign ideas int…
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