Situating informal welfare within imperfect well-being regimes

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ID6155855
AuthorsGeof Wood (University of Bath, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume31
Issue2
Pages132-150
Publication date2015-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of International and Comparative Social Policy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2169-9763 • E-ISSN: 2169-978X
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1080/21699763.2015.1047786
OpenAlexW1758927853
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited56

This paper reflects upon the position of the nation state and non-state-centred actors in the support for welfare and the security of agency. In particular it argues that the normative agenda of rights-based autonomous security is undermined by the social facts of dependent, personalised and thus precarious security. The roles of other actors above and below the nation state are thus significant in any analysis of power relations, social reproduction and policy outcomes. In many middle- and lower-income countries, the problem for state actors is that power, authority and, more problematically, legitimacy lies significantly elsewhere across the domain of state, market, community and household. Aspects of globalisation can thereby interact directly with sub-national entities by-passing and undermining the state: multinational corporations, international donors, international non-governmental organisations, remittances, wider faith movements and cross-border ethnic solidarities. This is clearly a complicated institutional landscape within which to formulate the idea of responsibility for social policy and consider its intersecting role with international development

Agency (philosophy · Economic system · Economics · Globalization · Legitimacy · Normative · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · Welfare state · Homelessness and Social Issues · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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