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Hickey, Sam, Lavers, Tom, Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel and Seekings, Jeremy (2019) 'The Negotiated Politics of Social Protection in East and Southern Africa.' In: Hickey, Sam, Lavers, Tom, Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel and Seekings, Jeremy, (eds.), The Politics of Social Protection in Eastern and Southern Africa. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 1-41.

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Abstract

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.

Item Type: Book Chapters
Keywords: social assistance, politics, sub-Saharan Africa, international development organizations, social protection
SOAS Departments & Centres: Departments and Subunits > Department of Economics
ISBN: 9780198850342
DOI (Digital Object Identifier): https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198850342.003.0001
Date Deposited: 27 Jun 2022 09:09
URI: https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/37629
Funders: Other

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