Networks and geographies of global social policy diffusion : culture, economy and colonial legacies / Michael Windzio, Ivo Mossig, Fabian Besche-Truthe, Helen Seitzer, editors

Includes bibliographical references and index

Networks of Global Social Policy Diffusion: The Effects of Culture, Economy, Colonial legacies, and Geographic Proximity -- The Global Diffusion of Work-Injury Insurance: The Role of Spatial Networks and Nation Building -- Networks of Global Policy Diffusion. The Introduction of Compulsory Education -- The Global Diffusion of Adult Basic Education -- The Emergence of Healthcare Systems -- Introduction of Long-Term Care Systems: The Nascent Diffusion of an Emergent Field of Social Policy -- Origins of Family Policy: Prerequisites or Diffusion -- From Geneva to the World? Global Network Diffusion of Anti-Discrimination Legislation in Employment and Occupation: The ILOs C111 -- The Diffusion of Workplace Anti-discrimination Regulations for the LGBTQ+ Community -- Critical Summary and Concluding Remarks

This open access book analyses the global diffusion of social policy as a process driven by multiplex ties between countries in global social networks. The contributions analyze links between countries via global trade, colonial history, similarity in culture, and spatial proximity. Networks are viewed as the structural backbone of the diffusion process, and diffusion is anlaysed via several subfields of social policy, in order to interrogate which network dimensions drive this process. The focus is on a global perspective of social policy diffusion via networks, and is the first book to explicitly follow this macro-quantitative perspective on diffusion at a global scale whilst also comparing different networks. The collection tests the network structures in terms of their relevance to the diffusion process in different subfields of social policy such as old age and survivor pensions, labor and labor markets, health and long-term care, education and training, and family and gender policy. The book will therefore be invaluable to students and researchers of global social policy, sociology, political science, international relations, organization theory and economics