Chapter 2 Power, corruption and lies: Irish political, economic and social policy: 1900–2011

2011 ◽  
pp. 25-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liam Leonard ◽  
Paula Kenny
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Political Economic

scholarly journals Global Challenges of Social Policy on the Example of the Labor Market: The Experience of Kazakhstan

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 87
Author(s):  
G. Jussupova
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Business And Society ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Global Challenges ◽  
Demographic Processes ◽  
Political Economic

The processes of globalization affect many economic and social processes, and the labor market is no exception. The situation in the labor market is always the center of attention for the state, business, and society as a whole. It determines the economic development of the country, social policy, the competitiveness of enterprises, and human capital. This article discusses global challenges such as the fourth industrial revolution, the digital transformation of society and industry, migration processes and informal employment, the problems of identifying social status for the population, and the system of accounting for social benefits. Because the labor market is experiencing the strongest impact of political, economic, social, and demographic processes, it has its own characteristics in each country, and this article discusses the internal problems of the Kazakhstan labor market. In addition, the article provides suggestions for improving social policy issues, employment through the automation of social processes and services, the digitalization of the public and private sectors, and the creation and development of information infrastructure of the labor market.

scholarly journals IMPLEMENTATION OF STATE SOCIAL POLICY IN UKRAINE

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (37) ◽  
Author(s):  
L. V. Plotka
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
The State ◽  
Social Benefits ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Policy Mechanisms

The article explores the state and prospects of social policy development in Ukraine. The purpose of the article is to determine the main directions of social policy implementation in Ukraine, the subject composition of social policy. Methods which was used in the article: analytical, statistical, monographic. The study revealed the patterns of socio-economic turmoil in Ukraine and their impact on the implementation of social policy. The haphazardness in the implementation of social policy in the country is emphasized. The main directions of reforming the system of social benefits and benefits are outlined, which must be subordinated to the following goals: constitutional, political, economic, social, financial.Keywords: politics, social policy, mechanisms, benefits and payments.

A ‘Lasting Transformation’ of Capitalist Surplus: From Food Stocks to Feedstocks

2012 ◽  
Vol 60 (2_suppl) ◽  
pp. 192-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin O'Brien
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Food Waste ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
The State ◽  
Capitalist Production ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Waste Policy ◽  
The Status ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Waste Food

In this article I link surplus food with the politics of capitalist production and consumption in order to shed some useful light on the strange case of food not being food once it has been discarded but not thrown away. I develop an analysis of waste policy as a dimension of capitalist surplus management (after Sweezy, 1962 ) by reconfiguring Claus Offe's (1984) essay on the state and social policy and construe waste policy as effecting a ‘lasting transformation’ of non-accumulating capital into accumulating capital. My intention is to provide a sketch of the labyrinthine semantic and political structures emerging around waste (in general) and waste food (in particular). I show that transforming waste food into capitalist surplus is a multi-layered and multi-stranded endeavour embedded in larger political, economic and cultural arrangements and cosmologies. I undertake this analysis of the transformation of waste into surplus by exploring, first, waste as an imaginary construct; second, the strange case of discarded food not being ‘discarded’ (and not being ‘food’, either); third, the convoluted cosmology of European waste policy; and, fourth, aspects of political sociology which help to reveal the status of waste as a source of capital accumulation. I conclude by proposing a sociological account of food waste that situates the critique of excess not in the ignorant, sordid voraciousness of individual citizens but in the structures and institutions of capitalist accumulation.

scholarly journals Current Global Trends in the Fight Against Corruption

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (2(43)) ◽  
pp. 6-12
Author(s):  
Roman Veresha
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
International Level ◽  
Social Culture ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
State Of Mind ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Civic Institutions ◽  
The Way

The purpose of this research is to define the concept of corruption-related offence, as well as to articulate universal measures for preventing corruption at the international and national levels. This article identifies some effective measures aimed at preventing corruption. These imply changing the way a person should think, his/her state of mind; shaping political, economic, legal and social culture of citizens; implementing social policy against corruption that imply the participation of civic institutions and population. These are also measures aimed at taking control over corruption; applying the principle of regulatory openness and transparency; taking control over activities performed by officials and workers in the economic and financial sectors of public administration. These measures are universal for fighting corruption-related offences at the international level. This will allow enforcing the criminal law regulations concerning corruption more effectively, and will open new prospects for designing mechanisms of identifying corruption determinants in the most corrupted spheres.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. xxx-20
Author(s):  
Daniel Béland ◽  
Kimberly J. Morgan ◽  
Herbert Obinger ◽  
Christopher Pierson
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Welfare State Regimes ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Near Future ◽  
Second World ◽  
The Welfare State

This synoptic introduction guides the reader through the major themes in this comparative analysis of the developed welfare states. It first outlines the origins of the welfare state and its development down to 1940. It then considers the impact of the Second World War on social policy and traces the apparent successes of expanding welfare state regimes in the thirty years that followed the war. It then assesses the critique and challenges that arose for this welfare state settlement from the mid-1970s onwards and the idea of a ‘crisis of the welfare state’. These challenges were simultaneously ideological, political, economic, and demographic, and are sometimes seen to have created new circumstances of ‘permanent austerity’. The contemporary welfare state faces a set of challenges very different to those which arose after 1945 in which the near-future context is set by the continuing impact of the Great Recession after 2008 and the new world of social policy created by COVID-19.

scholarly journals The growth of food banks in Britain and what they mean for social policy

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Lambie-Mumford
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Welfare Reform ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Policy Change ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Food Banks ◽  
Structural Determinants ◽  
Conceptual Tool ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Policy Shifts

Recent UK social policy has been dominated by welfare reform and austerity. This article draws on empirical research to argue that the rise and prominence of food banks is the embodiment of a wider political–economic trajectory of social policy change which has intensified significantly since 2010 and involved reinterpretations of the causes of and responses to poverty. It highlights the potential of food banks as a lens through which to interrogate the consequences of these policy shifts in relation to: the importance of structural determinants; the inadequacy of relying on ad hoc privatised caring initiatives; and the increasing embeddedness of food banks in local welfare landscapes. The article concludes by arguing that food is an important conceptual tool, which critical social policy researchers should employ more often to explore questions of justice, equality and wellbeing.

Managing social policy in the emerging welfare regime of governance: What Indonesia can learn from South Korea’s experience

2021 ◽  
pp. 002087282110116
Author(s):  
Tauchid Komara Yuda ◽  
Pinurba Parama Pratiyudha ◽  
Kafa Abdallah Kafaa
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Global Changes ◽  
Welfare Regime ◽  
Welfare Service ◽  
Catch Up ◽  
Key Features ◽  
Political Economic

Although Indonesia and South Korea have parallel narratives concerning their political-economic order that influenced social welfare arrangements, they have had different welfare outcomes. The main purpose of this study is to survey the possibility for Indonesia to adopt key features from Korea that can be applied to catch up in terms of its welfare outcome improvements. We argue that the key to the success of Korean social welfare development is closely related to the adaptive and responsive capacity of existing political institutions in responding to global changes, leading to a collaborative model of governance in welfare service.

Out of many, one? U.S. sub-national political-economies in the post-welfare reform era

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 851-873 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Bjorklund
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Welfare Reform ◽  
Democratic Party ◽  
State Level ◽  
Labor Policy ◽  
Reform Era ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Political Economies ◽  
Policy Variation ◽  
Political Economic

AbstractDespite increased research on social policy variation among U.S. states, few have examined U.S. state-level political-economies in the wake of welfare reform. This is problematic given the ability of state-level political-economies to solidify patterns of stratification. I address this by analyzing four dimensions of U.S. state-level political-economies in the welfare reform era: labor policy, family/social policy, tax policy, and state imposed fiscal constraint. From this analysis I delineate five state-level political-economic types: (1) progressive; (2) contested progressive; (3) boilerplate; (4) frontier conservative; and (5) Southern conservative. Four determinants of type membership are also evaluated: Democratic Party control, unionization, racial fractionalization and income per capita. While my results demonstrate these as meaningful determinants, patterns of association vary by type, thus suggesting a revision to the assumed progressive/conservative continuum of U.S. social policy and political-economies. I conclude by elaborating how my analysis expands our understanding of U.S., and cross-national, political-economies.

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