Democracy and Social Policy

NEERA CHANDHOKE Professor of Political Science, University of Delhi, India TERENCE COX Reader in Central and Eastern European Studies, University of Glasgow, UK MAURIZIO FERRERA Professor of Social and Labour Market Policy, State University of Milan, Italy FERNANDO FILGUEIRA Sociologo, Universidad de la Republica, Motevideo, Uruguay CARL-JOHAN HEDBERG Research Assistant, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), Switzerland JENNIFER JONES Social Monitoring Specialist, Jamaica Social Policy Evaluation (JASPEV), Jamaica KEITSEOPE NTHOMANG Lecturer in Social Policy and Community Practice, University of Botswana, Botswana TOSHIMITSU SHINKAWA Professor of Political Science, Faculty of Law, Kyoto Univeristy, Japan JOHN D. STEPHENS Gerhard E. Lenski Jr. Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology, University of North Carolina, USA

Economic development is a necessary but not sufficient condition for welfare development. This book examines complex relations between democracy and social policy and the conditions under which democratic regimes can deliver adequate social protection to citizens as well as how social policy aids democratic consolidation.Economic development is a necessary but not sufficient condition for welfare development. This book examines complex relations between democracy and social policy and the conditions under which democratic regimes can deliver adequate social protection to citizens as well as how social policy aids democratic consolidation.