Corruption and the Social Contract of the Welfare State

2021 ◽  
pp. 132-145
Author(s):  
Bo Rothstein
Keyword(s):  
Social Contract ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Social Trust ◽  
Political Support ◽  
General Level ◽  
Social Policies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Huge Impact ◽  
New Research ◽  
Positive Effect

New research shows that issues related to various forms of malpractice in the implementation of social policies have a huge impact on the possibility of gaining citizens’ support for social policies. While the extension of social policies in different countries can be explained by referring to variation in political mobilization, there is also an argument for understanding this from a social contract approach. Even if a majority of citizens understand that they stand to gain from a more universal and encompassing system for social protection, a lack of trust may prevent them from transforming the demand to actual political support for such a system. Lastly, a universal and encompassing system is likely to have a positive effect on the general level of social trust and creates a sense of loyalty towards the state, which in turn is likely to lower the inclination to take part in corrupt exchanges.

scholarly journals ASSESSMENT OF THE FINANCIAL PROVISION OF SOCIAL PROTECTION ОF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES IN UKRAINE

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergiy Kandiba ◽  
Natalia Safonik
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Social Trust ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
Gender Mainstreaming ◽  
Insurance Fund ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
The Social

The article analyses the main sources of financial provision for the social protection of persons with disabilities in Ukraine, including their own resources, budget resources at all levels and resources of enterprises of all forms of ownership; social trust funds, funds of charitable and social organizations and other sources. It is justified that socially oriented objects of expenditure are growing and account for a significant share in the structure of expenditure of the state budget. An analysis of the expenditure of local budgets on the social protection of persons with disabilities showed that expenditure in this area has been increasing since 2015, owing to the reform of decentralization. An evaluation of the activities of civil society organizations of persons with disabilities showed a decrease in the number of persons with disabilities who are employed and in the proportion of expenditures allocated to the social needs of persons with disabilities. Measures to improve the social protection and welfare of persons with disabilities in Ukraine are also financed from social welfare funds. Analysis of the provision of medical and social services by the Social Insurance Fund of Ukraine shows an increase in the number of persons with disabilities as a result of an industrial accident and an increase in the cost of medical and social services. It has been established that financial provision for the social protection of persons with disabilities from charitable organizations is provided in most cases in the form of targeted charitable assistance. The structure of the recipients of charitable assistance by category showed that the proportion of people with special needs among the recipients of charitable assistance was about 10 per cent. On the basis of the study, a number of problems affecting the well-being of persons with disabilities have been identified. Priorities have been set for the development of financial provision for the social protection of persons with disabilities. These include improving the targeting of social assistance, development of locally funded social protection programs, enhancing the social and labour integration of persons with disabilities, gender mainstreaming in the financial provision of social protection for persons with disabilities.

scholarly journals Reinvigorating the social contract and strengthening social cohesion: Social protection responses to COVID‐19

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 55-80
Author(s):  
Shahra Razavi ◽  
Christina Behrendt ◽  
Mira Bierbaum ◽  
Ian Orton ◽  
Lou Tessier
Keyword(s):  
Social Contract ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
The Social

Unequal Societies: Income Distribution and the Social Contract

2000 ◽  
Vol 90 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roland Bénabou
Keyword(s):  
Social Contract ◽  
Social Insurance ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Education Finance ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Support ◽  
Insurance Markets ◽  
Redistributive Policies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Persistent Inequality

This paper develops a theory of inequality and the social contract aiming to explain how countries with similar economic and political “fundamentals” can sustain such different systems of social insurance, fiscal redistribution, and education finance as those of the United States and Western Europe. With imperfect credit and insurance markets some redistributive policies can improve ex ante welfare, and this implies that their political support tends to decrease with inequality. Conversely, with credit constraints, lower redistribution translates into more persistent inequality; hence the potential for multiple steady states, with mutually reinforcing high inequality and low redistribution, or vice versa. (JEL D31, E62, P16, O41, I22)

scholarly journals OS PROGRAMAS DE TRANSFERÊNCIA DE RENDA CONDICIONADA (PTRC) NA AMÉRICA LATINA: caracterizando, problematizando e construindo uma proposta de estudo comparado

2014 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 307
Author(s):  
Maria Ozanira da Silva e Silva ◽  
Mónica De Martino Bermúdez
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Social Policies ◽  
Income Transfer ◽  
Transfer Programs ◽  
The Social ◽  
Latin America And Caribbean ◽  
America Latina ◽  
Methodological Aspects

O artigo, referenciado em levantamento bibliográfico e documental e em estudo exploratório sobre os Programas de Transferência de Renda Condicionada (PTRC), em implementação na América Latina e no Caribe, contextualiza e destaca a importância desses programas no campo da proteção social não contributiva. Apresenta proposta de um estudocomparado entre três programas, dos mais significativos no Continente. Indica elementos teórico-metodológicos para orientar e aprofundar o conhecimento da proteção social, considerando a prevalência dos PTRC no âmbito das políticas sociais na América Latina.Palavras-chave: Programas de Transferência de Renda Condicionada, estudo comparado, América Latina.CONDITIONED INCOME TRANSFER PROGRAMS (PTRC) IN LATIN AMERICA: featuring, questioning and constructing a proposal of comparative studyAbstract: The article is based on a bibliographic and documental research and on a survey about the Conditioned Income Transfer Programs (PTRC), in implementation in Latin America and Caribbean. It presents the context and highlights the importance of those programs in the field of the non contributive social protection. The article presents a researchproposal to develop a comparative study among three programs, the most important in the Continent. It also points out the theoretical and methodological aspects to guide and to deep the knowledge about social protection, considering the prevalence of the PTRC in the ambit of the social policies in Latin America.Keywords: Conditioned Income Transfer Programs, compared research, Latin America

scholarly journals Social development and social protection of agglomeration in the context of providing the sustainable development

2017 ◽  
pp. 19-26
Author(s):  
Оlena Garashchuk ◽  
Vira Kutsenko
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Living Standards ◽  
Main Task ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
The Social ◽  
City Core ◽  
The City ◽  
Positive Effect

The genesis and evolution of the formation of agglomeration and their impact on ensuring sustainable development in Ukraine were investigated. Criteria and the main features of agglomeration in the structure and components of sustainable development were disclosed. It is noticed that the main task of the forming agglomeration is to help to improve the living standards of residents of settlement remote from the city-core of agglomeration and equalization of differences in social and cultural services to the population. A number of measures were offered to accelerate the process of providing sustainable development. Among the latest, the development of mechanisms for attracting investments in the development of the social sphere and increasing the efficiency of their usage may provide positive effect.

scholarly journals Formation of the Institution of Social Contract In Conditions of Digital Economy in Modern Russia

2021 ◽  
pp. 47-60
Author(s):  
Vidadi Gafizovich Asadov
Keyword(s):  
Social Contract ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
Life Situation ◽  
Social Contracts ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Low Income Families

The article makes an attempt to analyze a new type of social assistance to low-income citizens, low-income families, as well as citizens in a difficult life situation in order to formulate proposals for its improvement. The President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin during the meeting with senators held on 23 September 2020 pointed out that "One of the key factors in war on poverty is the social contract" (https://ria.ru/20200923/bednost-1577654986.html). The social contract is a very effective type of social assistance, as it is aimed to activating the citizens themselves in increasing their level of material security. As a result of the contract, they get the opportunity to find a permanent income, including by opening their own business or running a personal subsidiary farm, solve their difficult life situation, retraining. Despite the positive dynamics of the increase in the number of signed social contracts, the mechanism of these contracts itself needs to be improved. In particular, the author suggests that social protection institutions move to proactive social work with poor citizens, informing them more fully about the features of the social contract. It is also proposed to transfer the distribution of quotas for the conclusion of a social contract in various areas of the activities carried out within its framework to the subjects of the Russian Federation, to revise the terms of the social contract in the direction of «job search».

scholarly journals IDEOLOGY AND WELFARE STATE: HOW POLITICAL PARTIES INFLUENCE SOCIAL POLICY? THE CASE OF NORTH MACEDONIA

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 1343-1348
Author(s):  
Elisabeta Bajrami Ollogu
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Transitional Period ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Social Policies ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Welfare State

With the collapse of the former SFRY115, citizens, vulnerable groups in particular and the overall Macedonian society had to face the first decade of a prolonged transition, characterized by continuous reforms and rapid changes as a result of the newly emerging social conditions, ideological, political and economic challenges. The first decade of transitional period resulted in chaotic changes not only in the economic system, but in weaker measures of social protection and social security. With increased rates of unemployment, pensions and social security declining, health care services weakened, a number of legislative changes were introduced, both in terms of funding, administration and delivery of social policy services and institutional arrangements of social protection system. However, it has been shown that these policies and laws have not improved the overall situation of social beneficiary users nor have they helped to include them in the labor market.Since the independence of the country, social policies have undergone many changes broadly influenced by demographic factors, low economic growth and ideological ‘preferences’ of political parties governing the country so far. The question that naturally arises is: how much the measures applied have given rise to a positive change for the existence of the welfare state and to what extent it can be estimated that the social policies undertaken were influenced by ideological preferences? What is the legacy with the former state-socialist welfare tradition? Which were the main influences in the establishment of the welfare state in North Macedonia? Methodologically, this research is mainly characterized by literature review with the aim to analyze the social context in which reforms have undergone and being implemented. A document analysis of social policy documents will be used as well.

scholarly journals Tensiones en el Modelo de Protección Social Cubano: una arqueología para mirar al presente de las políticas sociales

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 20
Author(s):  
Rosa María Voghon Hernández
Keyword(s):  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Social Indicators ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Policies ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Welfare Provision ◽  
Political Conception ◽  
The Social

ResumenDesde el triunfo revolucionario, el modelo de desarrollo cubano se ha destacado históricamente por una concepción política, basada en la centralidad del Estado en la provisión del bienestar y en una vocación de justicia social, así como en la construcción de ciudadanía a través de la implementación de políticas de carácter universal. Un dilema, sin embargo, con el que ha tenido que lidiar este modelo, ha estado asociado a la contradicción entre la intención política, los avances obtenidos en materia social, por un lado; y las dificultades para sedimentar un sostén económico con el cual respaldar una propuesta integral de desarrollo. El artículo presenta una propuesta de análisis sobre la reforma iniciada en el 2011, presentando resultados respecto al estrechamiento de las políticas sociales en el marco de un legado institucional de desarticulación entre universalidad y focalización en ese contexto. Desde la perspectiva metodológica, las principales fuentes utilizadas fueron de base documental: fuentes oficiales y resultados de investigación realizados por la autora y autores sobre la reforma cubana actual.Palabras-Chaves: Políticas Sociales, Asistencia Social, Pobreza y Desigualdades en Cuba, Reforma. ***Tensões no Modelo de Proteção Social Cubano: uma arqueologia para olhar o presente das políticas sociais.ResumoDesde a vitória da revolução, o modelo de desenvolvimento cubano vem se assentando em uma concepção política que enfatiza a centralidade do Estado na provisão do bem-estar e na promoção de justiça social, assim como na construção de cidadania pela via da implementação de políticas de escopo universal. Contudo, este modelo teve de enfrentar o dilema colocado pela contradição entre, de um lado, os avanços obtidos em matéria social, e de outro, as dificuldades de consolidar um suporte económico capaz de respaldar uma proposta integral de desenvolvimento.  O artigo pretende analisar a reforma iniciada em 2011, apresentando resultados a respeito do estreitamento das políticas sociais no marco de um legado institucional de desarticulação entre universalidade e focalização. Do ponto de vista metodol&oacute ;gico, privilegiou-se base documental, incluindo fontes oficiais, e resultados de pesquisa realizados tanto pela autora como por outros autores sobre a trajetória recente da reforma cubana.Palavras-chaves: Políticas Sociais, Assitência Social, Pobreza e Desigualdade e Cuba, Reforma. ***Tensions in the Cuban Social Protection Model: an archeology to look at the present of social policies.AbstractThe Cuban Model of Development has been characterized, since the Revolution triumph for a political conception based on State centrality in welfare provision and social justice. As well as in the building of a citizenship trough the implementation of social policies with universal perspective.A dilemma, however associate to this Model has been related to the contradiction between the political intentions, the advancement achieved in social indicators in one hand; and in the other, the difficulties in order to achieve efficient economic policies, which could support the social development.This article present a proposal about the reform started on 2011, which the objective to present outcomes about the retrenchment of the Cuban social policies in the frame of non-correspondence between universality and focalization in a historical perspective. Since the methodological point of view, the main sources used were official and research results conducted for the author and other academics about current Cuban reform.Keywords: social policies, social assistance, poverty and inequalities in Cuba, reform

scholarly journals Social Protection and State–Society Relations in Environments of Low and Uneven State Capacity

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-174
Author(s):  
Arthur Alik-Lagrange ◽  
Sarah K. Dreier ◽  
Milli Lake ◽  
Alesha Porisky
Keyword(s):  
Social Contract ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Assistance Programs ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
State Relations

Grounded in social-contractual ideas about relationships between the governed and those who govern, the provision of social benefits to citizens has historically been predicated on expectations of acquiescence to state authority. However, the rapid expansion of noncontributory social assistance in sub-Saharan Africa, often supported by global donors through technical assistance programs, raises myriad questions about the relationship between social protection and the social contract in fragile and low-capacity contexts. Focusing on sub-Saharan Africa, but drawing on the theoretical and empirical literature on social protection from around the world, this review parses out the redistributive, contractual, and reconstitutive effects of social protection programming on citizen–state relations. We argue that program features—including targeting, conditionality, accountability mechanisms, bureaucratic reach, and the nature and visibility of state–nonstate partnerships—interact dialectically with existing state–society relationships to engender different social contract outcomes for differently situated populations.

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