In: sozialpolitik.ch, 2019, vol. 1, no. 4, p. Article: 1.4
For more than a decade scholars mostly from economy and development studies have described the rise of a newly emerging ‘middle class’ in the Global South including Africa. This has led to a ‘middle class narrative’ with the ‘middle class’ as the backbone of economic and democratic development. Especially with regard to the stability of the position of the people in the ‘middle’,...
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In: Disability & Society, 2017, vol. 32, no. 8, p. 1199-1215
This paper examines different models of disability policy in European welfare regimes on the basis of secondary data. OECD data measuring social protection and labour- market integration is complemented with an index which measures the outcomes of disability civil rights. Eurobarometer data is used to construct the index. The country modelling by cluster analysis indicates that an...
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In: sozialpolitik.ch, 2017, vol. 2, no. 2, p. Article: 2.2
This paper revisits Esping-Andersen’s welfare regimes typology and applies it to the South African context. To argue its case, it refers to and uses the construct of colonialism of a special type. The paper notes that unlike other African coun- tries, Esping-Andersen’s framework resonates with South Africa’s social policy and welfare regime because of its unique history that partly stems...
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In: Socio-Economic Review, 2015, vol. 13, no. 2, p. 235-258
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