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The Encyclopedia of the Social and Solidarity Economy is a
comprehensive reference text that explores how the social and
solidarity economy (SSE) plays a significant role in creating and
developing economic activities in alternative ways. In contrast to
processes involving commodification, commercialisation,
bureaucratisation and corporatisation, the SSE reasserts the place
of ethics, social well-being and democratic decision-making in
economic activities and governance. Identifying and analysing a
myriad of issues and topics associated with the SSE, the
Encyclopedia broadens the knowledge base of diverse actors of the
SSE, including practitioners, activists and policymakers. Analysing
the role of SSE organisations and enterprises in enhancing
wellbeing, planetary health and democracy at various levels and
their contribution to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals,
the Encyclopedia invaluably summarises knowledge about the key
aspects of the SSE. Accomplished researchers depart from
traditional nationalistic, Eurocentric and trans-Atlantic
perspectives to explain the SSE from a global perspective with a
focus on untold stories of its development in both developing and
developed countries. A collective work of the UN Inter-Agency Task
Force on SSE (UNTFSSE), this Encyclopedia will serve as an
essential tool for scholars and students of comparative social
policy, international economics, management studies and economic
sociology. Key Features: 57 entries Clearly organised into thematic
sections addressing histories, concepts and theories, actors and
organisations, development, and environment and governance Breaks
down the complex relationship between economic, social and
political dimensions in an accessible way
This book explores how political, social, economic and
institutional factors in eight emerging economies have combined to
generate diverse outcomes in their move towards universal health
care. Structured in three parts, the book begins by framing social
policy as an integral system in its own right. The following two
parts go on to discuss the opportunities and challenges of
achieving universal health care in Thailand, Brazil and China, and
survey the obstacles facing India, Indonesia, Russia, South Africa
and Venezuela in the reform of their health care systems. The
evolution of social policy systems and the cases in this volume
together demonstrate that universalism in health care is
continuously redefined by the interactions between diverse
political forces and through specific policy processes. At a time
when international and national-level discourse around health
systems has once again brought universalism to the fore, this
edited collection offers a timely contribution to the field in its
thorough analysis of health care reform in emerging economies.
This edited volume presents lessons for development in the 21st
century through an analysis of South Korea's development
experience. The question of how the collaboration between state and
society has contributed to capability enhancement is examined. The
papers of the volume aim to understand the complementarity between
economic and social policies. Looking beyond the conventional
analytical scope of South Korean developmental state, they focus on
the institutional mechanisms enabling the state and society to
establish complementary policies, the actors involved and the
consequences of the choices in the policy areas of aid, industrial,
labour market, fiscal and monetary policies, social policy, rural
development, environment, and gender to identify relevant lessons
for developing countries in the 21st century.This volume considers
the institutions and policies of South Korea between 1945 and 2000.
Framing social policies as a set of policies to enhance individual
and societal capability, this volume shows how a wide range of
policies were formulated to complement each other in protective,
reproductive, productive and redistributive spheres for economic
and social development. In particular, it includes the periods of
state-building prior to the rapid industrialisation of the 1960s,
1970s, and 1980s and the responses to Asian Economic Crisis in the
1990s, which identified the institutional foundations and legacies
for Korea's successful development.This book is indispensable
reading for all interested in development economics,
macroeconomics, institutional economics, political economy,
migration studies, gender studies and international relations.
This analysis of South Korea's development experience can present
lessons for development in the 21st century. Situating the
development experience of South Korea within the framework of the
capability enhancing state, this volume examines the empowering
institutions and policies of South Korea between 1945 and 2000.
Drawing on international case studies from emerging economies and
developing countries including South Africa, India, Egypt, Morocco,
Jordan, Tunisia, Indonesia, China and Russia, this book examines
the rise, nature and effectiveness of recent developments in social
policy in the Global South. By analysing these new emerging trends,
the book aims to understand how they can contribute to meaningful
change and whether they could offer alternative solutions to the
social, economic and environmental policy challenges facing
low-income countries within a contemporary global context. It pays
particular attention to reforms and innovations relating to the
objectives of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,
including the move away from a welfare state, towards a ‘welfare
multitude’, in which new actors, such as civil society
organisations, play an increasingly important role in social
policy.
There are two great mysteries in the political economy of South
Korea. How could a destroyed country in next to no time become a
sophisticated and affluent economy? And how could a ruthlessly
authoritarian regime metamorphose with relative ease into a stable
democratic polity? South Korea was long ruled with harsh
authoritarianism, but, strangely, the authoritarian rulers made
energetic use of social policy. The Korean State and Social Policy
observes South Korean public policy from 1945 to 2000 through the
prism of social policy to examine how the rulers operated and
worked.
After the military coup in 1961, the new leaders used social policy
to buy themselves legitimacy. That enabled them to rule in two very
different ways simultaneously. In their determination to hold on to
power they were without mercy, but in the use of power in
governance, their strategy was to co-opt and mobilize with a
sophistication that is wholly exceptional among authoritarian
rulers. It is governance and not power that explains the Korean
miracle.
Mobilization is a strategy with consequences. South Korea was not
only led to economic development but also, inadvertently perhaps,
built up as a society rich in public and civil institutions. When
authoritarianism collapsed under the force of nationwide uprisings
in 1987, the institutions of a reasonably pluralistic social and
political order were there, alive and well, and democracy could
take over without further serious drama.
This book is about many things: development and modernization,
dictatorship and democracy, state capacity and governance, social
protection and welfare states, and Korean history. But finally it
is about lifting social policy analysis out of the ghetto of
self-sufficiency it is often confined to and into the center ground
of hard political science.
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