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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Theoretical Framework
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Key Issues and Parameters
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Social Conflicts, Modernization and Democratization
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Concluding Remarks
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Back Matter
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"Alfio Cerami makes us painfully aware of the pivotal importance of wide-ranging social welfare programs for democratization projects everywhere. He deftly demonstrates how 'emergency welfare regimes' produce different outcomes in diverging contexts of Sub-Saharan Africa and offers valuable theoretical insights that would be of great interest to scholars, policy experts, international NGOs, and a growing number of students of this long-neglected region." - Tomasz Inglot, Professor in Political Science, Minnesota State University, USA
"Welfare state studies only rarely embrace the development of social policy in Africa. In this highly stimulating book Cerami not only shows how to describe and understand Sub-Saharan permanent emergent welfare regimes, he is also able to demonstrate the necessity of combining insight from a variety of approaches including welfare state analysis and political science, but also to combine it with enormous insight into pitfalls and dilemmas for Africa's development, and suggestions for future path-ways." - Bent Greve, Professor in Welfare State Analysis, University of Roskilde, Denmark
"A milestone. This study sheds not only vivid light on a largely blind spot of the welfare regime research hitherto. It also connects the broad empirical analysis on Sub-Saharan Africa with an ambitious concept building on the nexus of development economics, social protection and democratization. Alfio Cerami's profound study reveals once again the close relationship between public welfare and the conditio humana in contemporary societies wherever they are located."
- Raj Kollmorgen, Associate Professor in Sociology, University of Magdeburg, Germany
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Permanent Emergency Welfare Regimes in Sub-Saharan Africa
Book Subtitle: The Exclusive Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
Authors: Alfio Cerami
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137318213
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-29979-5Published: 18 March 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-33544-2Published: 01 January 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-31821-3Published: 18 March 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 270
Topics: Politics of the Welfare State, Social Policy, International Political Economy, African Culture, Sociology, general, Social Theory