Beliefs or ideology: the imperative of social inclusion in Brazilian politics

Pereira, Carlos; Bertholini, Frederico

doi:10.1080/14662043.2017.1327100

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“…Substantial social policy is predicated on the emergence of specific "social" categories or "social knowledge" in politics and society (Rueschemeyer and Skocpol 1996). Pereira and Bertholini (2017), for example, find that the belief in "social inclusion" cuts across political ideologies in post-1988 Brazil. The historical rise of social protection relies on the formation of "social" concepts that relate to social problems, such as poverty or disability, to ideational models of welfare programmes like "social security" or "social insurance", or to statehood.…”

Section: Ideas: a Constructivist Sociology Of Knowledge Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Protection in the Global South: An Ideational and Historical Approach

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2020

One Hundred Years of Social Protection

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This chapter is the introduction to the volume on social protection in Brazil, India, China, and South Africa. The Introduction outlines an ideational and historical approach to social protection in the Global South to contribute to a theory of “social policy in development contexts”, which is a desideratum. The Introduction also provides basic data on the four countries (Brazil, India, China, and South Africa) and summaries of all the chapters in the book. Three research gaps are identified: scarcity of historical research; scant attention to ideas and instead a dominant focus on interests; and insufficient use of historical sources. This volume contributes to filling these gaps through a historical, idea-centred, and source-based approach. A multi-layered model of social ideas—the “onion skin model”—is developed that has the “social question” as its pivot.

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Section: Ideas: a Constructivist Sociology Of Knowledge Approachmentioning

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Social Protection in the Global South: An Ideational and Historical Approach

Leisering

2020

One Hundred Years of Social Protection

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“…More inclusive policies started during the last decade of apartheid to be further developed in the 1990s, and during the 2000s, the discourse became more inclusive. In Brazil, the Constitution of 1988 was a major boost to social policy, and since 1988, belief in "social inclusion" became dominant across political ideologies (Pereira and Bertholini 2017). In China, the 2000s and early 2010s witnessed more inclusive policies associated with broader ideas, such as "inclusive growth", "humanity-based" policies, and "rights".…”

Section: Constructing the Social: All Four Countries India The Leastmentioning

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One Hundred Years of Social Protection: The Rise of the Social Question in Brazil, India, China, and South Africa, 1920–2020

Leisering

2020

Global Dynamics of Social Policy

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This chapter concludes the volume on social protection in Brazil, India, China, and South Africa, 1920–2020. The main findings are: (1) Historical evolution—the hundred years from 1920 to 2020 mark the century of the rise of social protection in the four countries. (2) The social construction of the social—all four countries, with the exception of India, have articulated social issues in a generalised way as a social question. (3) Political language—semantics of the social have spread in all four countries. (4) “Multireferentiality”—social protection policies were largely driven and shaped by “non-social” ideas and interests. (5) Transnational diffusion—external ideas have pervaded domestic social protection policies. The chapter closes by thoughts about the future of social protection in middle-income countries.

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“…in infrastructure, which culminated in the abandonment of fiscal discipline (Ladi, Lazarou, & Hauck, 2018). Her successor in office committed his government to fiscal discipline and passed a constitutional amendment to enforce limits on government expenditure (Pereira & Bertholini, 2017). In this context, the Brazilian history of hyperinflation is important: the memory of hyperinflation in the 1990s has led to a relatively consensual belief among societal, economic and political actors that achieving macroeconomic stability should be a top priority (Alston, Melo, Mueller, & Pereira, 2012).…”

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Yet another paradigm change? Narratives and competing policy paradigms in Brazilian labour market policies

Vogeler

2019

Policy and Society

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When policy paradigms compete for sovereignty, a well thoughtout narrative story is essential to arguing why one paradigm is superior to another. Narrative stories can be applied to underline the imperative for paradigmatic policy change. Combining Hall's work on policy paradigms with Stone's conceptualisation of narrative stories, this article explores how narrative stories are applied to support or oppose competing policy paradigms and proposes that the systematic analysis of narrative stories fosters a better understanding of policy paradigms. The case of labour market policy in Brazil is used to exemplify the argument: 13 years of Workers' Party rule induced far-reaching changes in Brazilian social and labour market policy based on demand-orientation. Following the impeachment of President Rousseff, interim-President Temer initiated major labour reforms, reviving liberal narratives. This article explores how these policy changes are representative of the competition between policy paradigms, which are reflected in party-political competition, and how recent paradigm change is supported by the construction of narrative stories.

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Beliefs or ideology: the imperative of social inclusion in Brazilian politics

Cited by 8 publications

References 13 publications

Social Protection in the Global South: An Ideational and Historical Approach

Social Protection in the Global South: An Ideational and Historical Approach

One Hundred Years of Social Protection: The Rise of the Social Question in Brazil, India, China, and South Africa, 1920–2020

Yet another paradigm change? Narratives and competing policy paradigms in Brazilian labour market policies

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