Social Spending and Political Support: The "Lessons" of the National Solidarity Program in Mexico

1996 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen Bruhn
Keyword(s):  
Political Support ◽  
Social Spending ◽  
National Solidarity Program ◽  
National Solidarity

scholarly journals Political Support and Civil Disobedience: A Social Interaction Approach

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vilen Lipatov
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Civil Disobedience ◽  
Tax Compliance ◽  
Interaction Process ◽  
Political Support ◽  
Government Support ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Stable Steady State ◽  
Social Spending ◽  
Interaction Approach

AbstractPeople may express their opposition to government policies by adopting different measures of civil disobedience. Tax compliance is an example of an economic decision that may be affected by anti-government sentiment. Embedding the interdependence between social policies, political opposition and tax compliance in a dynamic social interaction process, we characterize a unique stable steady state of such a process. We find that social interaction may be a very important factor shaping government policies, at times reverting conventional relations between social spending and government support.

Village Context and the National Solidarity Program in Afghanistan

Asian Survey ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 58 (6) ◽  
pp. 1066-1089
Author(s):  
Adam Pain
Keyword(s):  
Implementation Outcomes ◽  
National Solidarity Program ◽  
Village Life ◽  
Customary Practices ◽  
National Solidarity

This paper explores the relation between the design of Afghanistan’s National Solidarity Program and implementation outcomes. It draws on a study of village contexts to understand the variability in the relations of responsibility and accountability that exist between customary village leadership, village elites, and village households. Findings on diverse processes of “bricolage” between the NSP intervention and customary practices highlight the politics of village life, which the technical assumptions of the NSP do not address.

scholarly journals A FINANCIAL IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON THE ECONOMY OF GEORGIA

2020 ◽  
pp. 204-209
Author(s):  
MIRZA KHIDASHELI
Keyword(s):  
Financial Stability ◽  
Sovereign Debt ◽  
Trade Balance ◽  
Political Support ◽  
Current Account Balance ◽  
Social Spending ◽  
Structural Reforms ◽  
State Budget ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Short Run

Covid-19 pandemic have shaped new economic reality. Globalization shaped the new type of economic. Businesses are excessively depended on an international cooperation. After 11/4/2020 when WHO declared the global pandemic, developed states were trying to build own medical equipment factories, but it came up harder than it appeared first. Precisely no one knows a scale of the recession, because it depended on the healthcare issues, not on an economic itself. So, developed states already have announced unprecedented packages of fiscal and monetary stimulus. Novel coronavirus outbreak creates economic threats for Georgian economic and financial stability too. But as everything, it has minimum two sides. Crises and shocks are a favorable time for rethinking everything again. The crisis can more precisely show the vulnerable areas and obtain a political support for changes and reforms. The permanent deficit of current accounts and trade balance is not new normal for Georgian economic, but the pandemic showed how it can increase rapidly by the tourism sector and the money transfers declining. Beside current account balance permanent deficit, a structure of the balance is another challenge. It is obvious that, economic development and improvement of trade balance are basic issues for sustainable economic, but without FDI it is a «mission impossible». The problem has complicated, because of last five-year FDI amounts are shrinking year to year. Another direction of pandemic interference is state budget. The budget revenues structural analyses showed increasing share of sovereign debt. Much more, GDP to sovereign debt ratio reached 40% in 2019. The currency devaluation and economic slowdown worsening this condition. So, we have less opportunities for debt in long run future. Another challenge of Georgian public finance is a structure of the budget expenses. A share of social costs and subsidies are consisting more than 1/3 of the state budget and only 15% consists capital spending, which can really boost economy and promote employment in short run. Amid pandemic, banks credit portfolios also are under the risk, especially loans linked to tourism and development sectors. The pandemic shock needs two side response policy: fiscal stimulus in short run and structural reforms in long run. Creating monetary stimulus packages, Georgia is more restricted than developed economics and emerging markets. So, we need coherent structural reforms to accomplish comprehensive “small government” model. Social spending should be replaced by supporting economic growth and subsequent employment.

Racial Diversity, Immigration, and Social Spending in the US

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis C. Spies
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Institutional Design ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Racial Diversity ◽  
Political Support ◽  
Social Spending ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Us ◽  
Negative Feelings

The chapter analyses the fractious relationship between racial diversity and the welfare state in the US—arguably the most influential case in NPD literature. It shows that US Whites are critical of welfare because their attitude rests on negative feelings about African-Americans and Latino immigrants. However, not all parts of the US welfare state are affected by this combination of race coding and low public support: means-tested welfare is badly affected but the social security components are not. These differences are traced back to their origins by comparing a highly race coded and unpopular welfare program (AFDC, and later TANF) with a non-coded, popular program of old age social security (OAI). Originally highly affected by racial considerations, the programs diverged because of their institutional design and their ability to raise and expand their political support bases.

scholarly journals Does development assistance reduce violence? Evidence from Afghanistan

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiffany Chou
Keyword(s):  
Local Governance ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Development Aid ◽  
Aid Effectiveness ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Using Data ◽  
National Solidarity Program ◽  
Development Spending ◽  
National Solidarity ◽  
Do So

Current military doctrine emphasizes the importance of development spending in reducing insurgent violence. Using data from three distinct development programs, the Afghan National Solidarity Program, USAID's Local Governance and Community Development Program, and the U.S. military's Commander's Emergency Response Program (CERP), combined with military records of insurgent-initiated events, this article explores whether development aid in Afghanistan is violence-reducing. I find that overall spending has no clear effect on rebel attacks. Moreover, the type of development program most effective at reducing violence in Iraq - small CERP projects - does not appear to do so in Afghanistan. Possible reasons include troop strength, conditionality of aid, effectiveness of aid in producing benign outcomes, and measurement issues.

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