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Book SynopsisAcross the world, welfare states are under challengeor were never developed extensively in the first placewhile non-state actors increasingly provide public goods and basic welfare. In many parts of the Middle East and South Asia, sectarian organizations and political parties supply basic services to ordinary people more extensively and effectively than governments. In sub-Saharan Africa, families struggle to pay hospital fees, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) launch welfare programs as states cut subsidies and social programs. Likewise, in parts of Latin America, international and domestic NGOs and, increasingly, private firms are key suppliers of social welfare in both urban and rural communities. Even in the United States, where the welfare state is far more developed, secular NGOs and faith-based organizations are critical components of social safety nets. Despite official entitlements to public welfare, citizens in Russia face increasing out-of-pocket expenses as they a
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"The Politics of Non-state Social Welfare begins to fill a major gap in the welfare literature. Almost all of the previous literature on welfare provision in developing countries has focused on relations between citizens and the state. This book offers the first comprehensive examination of how citizens and states are affected by the growth of NGOs, sectarian organizations, informal brokers, and other types of non-state actors. The authors of the case study chapters offer in-depth accounts of such providers, drawing on extensive fieldwork. In introductory and concluding chapters, Melani Cammett and Lauren M. MacLean elaborate and assess a series of carefully nuanced propositions about variations in the inclusiveness, accountability, and sustainability of the services provided by non-state actors and the conditions in which they complement or undermine the role of the state." -- Robert Kaufman, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Melani Cammett and Lauren M. MacLean
1. Mapping Social Welfare Regimes beyond the OECD
Ian Gough
2. The Political Consequences of Non-state Social Welfare: An Analytical Framework
Melani Cammett and Lauren M. MacLean
Part I
States, Non-state Social Welfare, and Citizens in the Developing World
3. Empowering Local Communities and Enervating the State? Foreign Oil Companies as Public Goods Providers in Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan
Pauline Jones Luong
4. The Politics of "Contracting Out" to the Private Sector: Water and Sanitation in Argentina
Alison E. Post5. Blurring the Boundaries: NGOs, the State, and Service Provision in Kenya
Jennifer N. Brass
6. Bridging the Local and the Global: Faith-Based Organizations as Non-state Providers in Tanzania
Michael Jennings
7. Sectarian Politics and Social Welfare: Non-state Provision in Lebanon
Melani Cammett
8. The Reciprocity of Family, Friends, and Neighbors in Rural Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire
Lauren M. MacLean
9. The Naya Netas: Informal Mediators of Government Services in Rural North India
Anirudh KrishnaPart II
The Politics of Non-state Social Welfare in Emerging Markets and the Industrialized World
10. Private Provision with Public Funding: The Challenges of Regulating Quasi Markets in Chilean Education
Alejandra Mizala and Ben Ross Schneider
11. "Spontaneous Privatization" and Its Political Consequences in Russia’s Postcommunist Health Sector
Linda J. Cook
12. State Dollars, Non-state Provision: Local Nonprofit Welfare Provision in the United States
Scott W. Allard
Conclusion
Melani Cammett and Lauren M. MacLean
