The Negotiated Politics of Social Protection in East and Southern Africa

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Main author: Hickey, Sam
Other authors: Lavers, Tom
Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel
Seekings, Jeremy
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description Social assistance programmes proliferated and expanded across much of the global South from the mid-1990s. Within Africa there has been enormous variation in this trend: some governments expanded coverage dramatically while others resisted this. The existing literature on social assistance, or social protection more broadly, offers little in explanation of this variation. Drawing on the literature on political settlements and democratic politics, we argue that variation results from the political contestation and negotiation between political elites, voters, bureaucrats, and transnational actors. The forms of politics that matter at each of these inter-related sites of negotiation include struggles over ideas as well as material interests and reflect the ways in which social assistance is being used to advance certain political as well as developmental projects in sub-Saharan Africa.
author_additional Hickey, Sam
author_additionalStr Hickey, Sam
format Book Chapters
author Hickey, Sam
author_facet Hickey, Sam
Lavers, Tom
Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel
Seekings, Jeremy
authorStr Hickey, Sam
author_letter Hickey, Sam
author2 Lavers, Tom
Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel
Seekings, Jeremy
author2Str Lavers, Tom
Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel
Seekings, Jeremy
title The Negotiated Politics of Social Protection in East and Southern Africa
publisher Oxford University Press
publishDate 2019
url https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/37629/

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