Policy Merchandising and Social Assistance in Africa
Don't Call Dog Monkey for Me
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 3884705 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Jimi O Adesina (0000-0002-6991-9934, autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2020 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Fascículo | 2 |
| Páginas | 561-582 |
| Data de publicação | 2020-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Development and Change (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0012-155X • E-ISSN: 1467-7660 |
| Editora | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/dech.12569 |
| OpenAlex | W2999749622 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 38 |
| Referências citadas | 57 |
The title of this article draws on a Yorùbá aphorism that roughly translates into 'don't sell me a dummy'. The dark side of social policy, the theme of this Debate, has a distinct character in the African context. The transformation of the African public policy landscape, shaped by the 'counter-revolution' in development thinking, has taken a new form with the donor 'policy merchandising' of cash transfer schemes. The stratified and segregated social policy on offer contrasts with the historical experience of 'donor' countries themselves. The policy instrument advanced is cast as 'a silent revolution in development', embodying the idea of development shifting from structural transformation to poverty alleviation. What is promoted is an impoverished version of development. Within the discourse of 'working with the grain of African politics', the politics of social assistance policy merchandising starts with a notion of politics as clientelist. It then deploys the instrumentality of clientelism - within an imperial deployment of power - in the manufacture of civil society and policy coalition, to ensure the local adoption of a policy instrument that the extra-territorial donor actors offer. This modality of public policy formulation contrasts sharply with the historical experience of public policy making in the 'donor' countries themselves. The result is the subversion of the consolidation of democracy in the African client states
Clientelism · Democracy · Economic growth · Economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public policy · Social policy · Sociology · International Development and Aid · Law · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Social Policy and Reform Studies
Think Tanks and Democratisation in South Africa
Neoliberal Hegemony and the Narrowing Discursive Space for Social Policymaking in Africa
Decades of Land and Agrarian Reform in Zimbabwe
Social Policy and Polanyi's Double Movement across Time
Out of school children in the context of new policy trajectories and interlocking crises in Zimbabwe
Land reform as asset-based social protection
The transformative role of community-based social provisioning in addressing flood-induced food insecurity in Anambra state, Nigeria
Social protection for transformative resilience
Can ODA enable autocratic entrenchment? Investigating donor‐driven cash transfer programmes in Uganda, Ethiopia, and Egypt
Social infrastructure in rural Zimbabwe
Social policy dimensions of land reform in rural Zimbabwe
Mirages of External Finance in Social Protection
The Interacting Politics of Agricultural Input Subsidies and Cash Transfers in Malawi and Zambia
Scales of ideational policy influence
Negotiating Access to Health Care for All through Social and Political Accountability
Performing social policy diffusion
Reflexivity in global social policy
On financing social security in the shadow of the digital age
Zimbabwe’s fast-track land reform at 20
Decolonizing Development Studies
Alternative routes to the institutionalisation of social transfers in sub-Saharan Africa
Social assistance or capital protection? Accumulation by ( un )certainty in the era of global food crises
Comparative Perspectives on Zimbabwe and South Africa’s Social Policy Response to covid-19
Targeting versus social protection in cash transfers in the Philippines
Social Assistance and Forced Displacement
Neoliberalism, social policy and the state
Everyday sense making and the discursive delineation of social policy space in Zambia
The role of elected politicians in donor‐led social protection
Tanzanian social policy in the new millennium – a cross-sectoral analysis from a gender perspective
Donors and Disciplines Meet the Political Economy of Development
Misaligned Social Policy? Explaining the Origins and Limitations of Cash Transfers in Sudan
Improvising an E-state
Crisis Narratives and the African Paradox
Discourses of international actors in the construction of the decentralisation policy
Against Imperial Social Policy
Social Policy, Development and Democracy in Africa
A Transformative Social Policy Perspective on Land and Agrarian Reform in Zimbabwe
Conditionality Breeds Contempt
Just Give Money to the Poor
The Takeover of Social Policy by Financialization
Social Protection for the Poor and Poorest in Developing Countries: Reflections on a Quiet Revolution
Addressing the Natural Resource Curse
Investigating the Political Economy of Social Protection Expansion in Africa
Social Policy and Economic Development in the Nordic Countries
Welfare Regimes and Economic Development
Social Protection for the Poor and Poorest
Return to a Wider Vision of Social Policy
Effects of Cash Transfers on Community Interactions
Can Cash Transfer Programmes Have ‘Transformative’ Effects
Poverty as Ideology
Economic Development with Unlimited Supplies of Labour
Is targeting ethical
Conceptualising the politics of social protection expansion in low income countries
Maladjusted African Economies and Globalisation
Pa's Pension’
Adjustment with a human face
Smoke and mirrors’
Solutions, exclusion and influence
Beyond the social protection paradigm
Commitment to Welfare
Poor Law Principles and Social Assistance in the Third World
From Poor Relief to Institutional Welfare States
Dilemmas of development
Capitalism and Freedom
British Colonial Policy, Local Politics, and the Origins of the Mauritian Welfare State, 1936–50
At the Origins of Neo-Liberalism
Brief History of Neoliberalism
Elections and the Democratic Class Struggle
The Paradox of Redistribution and Strategies of Equality
The Carnegie Commission and the Backlash against Welfare State-Building in South Africa, 1931-1937
The Constitution of Liberty
The Democratic Class Struggle in Postwar Societies
The democratic class struggle revisited
How the New Poverty Agenda Neglected Social and Employment Policies in Africa
Poverty and capitalism
| Obras citantes distintas | 38 |
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| Citações por ano | 7,6 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Velocidade de citação | current |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 35 |