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Law and Social Policy in the Global South

Chen, Albert H. Y. and Ulrike Davy. 2023. Law and Social Policy in the Global South. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003242826

Ulrike Davy Ulrike Davy

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A Social History of Democratic South African Told in Nine Lives

The book I am writing is a social history of the first two decades of South African democracy.

Jonny Steinberg Jonny Steinberg

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Understanding Southern welfare – social policies in Brazil, India, China and South Africa

A mid-term research programme focusing on the ideational foundations of social policies beyond traditional Northern welfare will be fleshed out.

Benjamin Davy Benjamin Davy Ulrike Davy Ulrike Davy

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The Impact of the Global Recession on Party Policy Preferences

The project continues and wants to bring to an end a project that has been started at STIAS in March 2013.

Hans-Dieter Klingemann Hans-Dieter Klingemann
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