Impact Initiative: Recent submissions
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Know your Neighbor: The Impact of Social Context on Fairness Behavior
(PLOS, 2018)Laboratory experiments offer an opportunity to isolate human behaviors with a level of precision that is often difficult to obtain using other (survey-based) methods. Yet, experimental tasks are often stripped of any social ... -
Consequences of Social Protection on Intergenerational Relationships in South Africa: Introduction
(SAGE, 2019)Categorically-targeted social assistance programmes have considerable potential to reduce poverty and buttress the dignity of disadvantaged groups of people, but they can also generate tensions over financial support and ... -
Social Assistance, Electoral Competition, and Political Branding in Malawi
(UNU-WIDER, 2019)The proliferation of social assistance programmes across Africa has coincided with redemocratization, i.e. the return of multi-party systems with regular, competitive elections in place of one-party states and military ... -
The Conditional Legitimacy of Claims Made by Mothers and Other Kin in South Africa
(SAGE, 2019)Because redistribution concerns ‘who gets what and from whom’, redistributive conflicts revolve around ‘who should get what and from whom’. Individuals as well as states distinguish between deserving and undeserving ... -
The Politics of Social Protection Policy Reform in Malawi, 2006-2017
(Centre for Social Science Research, UCT, 2019)The literature on the expansion of social protection in Africa contends that domestic politics matters for policy reforms. This includes literature that argues that repeated competitive elections and changes ... -
Pushing for Policy Innovation: the Framing of Social Protection Policies in Tanzania
((UNU-WIDER), 2019)In the early 2000s, there was low elite commitment to social protection on mainland Tanzania. Being a low-income country, Tanzania has high levels of deprivation and high demand for income security, but limited resources ... -
Social Grants and Voting in South Africa
(Centre for Social Science Research, 2019)Social grants are paid monthly for about one in three South Africans. This paper examines both the positive and negative effects of social grants on voters’ support for the incumbent party in South Africa. I examine the ... -
Disability, Cash Transfers and Family Practices in South Africa
(SAGE, 2019)Relative to other low and middle-income countries, South Africa provides a generous set of cash transfers (social grants) targeted at people with disabilities. This article explores the influence of disability-related ... -
Who Should Get What, How, and Why? DfID and the Transnational Politics of Social Cash Transfers in Sub-Saharan Africa
(UNU-WIDER, 2019)Social cash transfers (SCTs) proliferated across much of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) from the early 2000s (Garcia and Moore 2012; Bastiagli et al. 2016). ‘Social protection’, which was variously defined but always included ... -
The Limits to 'Global' Social Policy: The ILO, the Social Protection Floor and the Politics of Welfare in East and Southern Africa
(SAGE, 2019)Bob Deacon’s study of the Social Protection Floors initiative, led by the International Labour Organisation (ILO), entailed a pioneering study of the making of global social policy. Just how global is this ‘global social ... -
Liberalism as a Manifestation of the Ideals and Values of Zambia's Southern Province: The United Party for National Development and the Promotion of Self-reliance Through Social Welfare
(Centre for Social Science Research, UCT, 2019)Despite the impressive rise of the United Party for National Development (UPND) on the Zambian political scene since its formation in 1998, little academic research has been conducted on the party. This paper examines ... -
Building a Conservative Welfare State in Botswana
(UNU-WIDER, 2019)Overviews of welfare regimes in Africa distinguish typically between themiddle-income countries of southern Africa (including Botswana) and the lower-income countries elsewhere on the continent (Garcia and Moore 2012;Niño-Zarazúa ... -
Policy Diffusion, Domestic Politics, and Social Assistance in Lesotho, 1998-2012
(UNU-WIDER, 2019)In the 2000s interest in the use of cash transfer programmes grew across much of sub-Saharan Africa (Garcia and Moore 2012; Niño-Zarazúa et al. 2012), and unconditional cash transfers began to replace food aid as the central ... -
Defending Negative Freedoms: Liberalism as a Response to the Rising Authoritarianism of the Botswana Democratic Party
(Centre for Social Science Research, UCT, 2019)Botswana has received a great deal of scholarly attention for its rapid economic growth and seemingly impressive democratic performance after independence. This paper examines how self-identified liberal politicians in the ... -
Promoting Liberalism in Post-apartheid South Africa: How Liberal Politicians in the Democratic Alliance Approach Social Welfare
(Centre for Social Science Research, UCT, 2019)South African liberals find themselves in a particularly challenging context for the promotion of a political ideology that promotes the centrality of the marketin the maximisation ofindividuals’ well-being. ... -
Welfare Politics in Africa
(Oxford University Press, 2019)The emerging literature on the politics of social protection in Africa provides insights into the ways in which the unevenly changing character of representative democracy shapes processes of public policymaking in practice. ... -
Who Should Get What, How and Why? DfID and the Transnational Politics of Social Cash Transfers in Sub-Saharan Africa
(University of Cape Town, 2018)The proliferation of social cash transfers (SCTs) across much of Sub-Saharan Africa has resulted from interactions between international organisations – including both UN and related organisations, the donor agencies of ... -
The Negotiated Politics of Social Protection in Sub-Saharan Africa
(UNU-WIDER, 2018)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 ... -
Namibia's Child Welfare Regime, 1990-2017
(University of Cape Town, 2018)Most countries in Southern Africa are similar in providing some form of cash transfers to families with children, primarily to reduce child poverty, but there are striking variations in the categories of children targeted ... -
The Legitimacy of Claims Made on Kin and State in South Africa
(University of Cape Town, 2018)Conflict over redistribution through the welfare state is likely to be framed by the perceived legitimacy of the claims made on it. A distinction between deserving and undeserving people is not only fundamental to the ...