4. The Verein für Sozialpolitik and the Fabian Society: A Study in the Sociology of Policy-Relevant Knowledge

Rueschemeyer, Dietrich; Rossem, Ronan Van

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“…German and United Kingdom public administration are typically associated with distinct cultures of knowledge production and approaches to enforcement. While the German administration is associated with higher expectations about state knowledge and capacity to address social problems (Rueschemeyer & Van Rossem, 1995, p. 136), the United Kindom system is seen as more pragmatic and less legalistic (Peters, 2003), and more resigned to its lack of capacity to control unauthorized residents (Boswell, 2009). These differences are likely to produce divergences in administrative approaches to producing knowledge on irregular migrants.…”

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“What isn't in the files, isn't in the world”: Understanding state ignorance of irregular migration in Germany and the United Kingdom

Boswell

Badenhoop

2020

Governance

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While there is extensive literature on states and knowledge, there has been little focus on state ignorance: instances where states are identified as lacking knowledge relevant to addressing social problems. We present the first systematic analysis of how states perceive and respond to ignorance, developing a typology of responses (denial, resignation, and elucidation). We test and refine the typology through analyzing state ignorance of unauthorized migration in Germany and the UK, 1990–2006. Public authorities in both countries responded to ignorance through both denial and resignation. However, variations in control infrastructures and bureaucratic cultures meant that “resignation” took distinct forms. In the UK, pragmatism about the limitations of state capacity implied that officials were sanguine about their “ignorance,” with pressure emanating from external political scrutiny. In Germany, by contrast, officials faced an acute conflict between bureaucratic and legal norms of the rule of law, and constraints to enforcement. Both cases reveal profound state ambivalence about elucidating social problems over which they have limited control.

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Section: Theorizing State Ignorancementioning

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“What isn't in the files, isn't in the world”: Understanding state ignorance of irregular migration in Germany and the United Kingdom

Boswell

Badenhoop

2020

Governance

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“…Entre algunos estudios importantes de políticas sociales realizados desde el enfoque del Institucionalismo histórico tenemos: la investigación sobre el estado, conocimiento social y origen de las modernas políticas sociales (RUESCHEMEYER y SKOCPOL, 1996); un estudio comparativo de políticas sociales en Gran Bretaña y Alemania (RUESCHEMEYER y VAN ROSSEM, 1996); una investigación sobre relaciones entre trabajadores, estado y los cambios institucionales (COLLIER, 1992); un trabajo sobre políticas públicas en tiempos de crisis internacional (GOUREVITCH, 1986); un estudio comparativo entre Estados Unidos y Gran Bretaña sobre reformas progresivas, desempleo y demandas sociales (SCHWEBER, 1996); una investigación comparada sobre el Estado de Bienestar en Suecia, USA y España (SÁNCHEZ, 2003).…”

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Formación de Agenda de los Programas de Trasferencia de Renta en los países del Cono Sur de América

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2018

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destacaron como una de las principales políticas sociales en Latinoamérica. Los PTR fueron concebidos para detener la pobreza, como preocupación y problema principal de los gobiernos, creando condiciones para mejorar la calidad de vida de los pobres en el mediano y largo plazo (CECCHINI y MADARIAGA, 2011, 5). Según datos de la CEPAL, los 18 países de América Latina y el Caribe, tenían PTR funcionando en el 2010. Estos son bastante heterogéneos, responden a diversas trayectorias históricas, caracterizaciones sociales, coyunturas y prioridades de cada país. Tienen tres elementos comunes: foco en familias pobres con niños y adolescentes, principio de condicionalidad y el fortalecimiento del capital humano en el largo plazo. (DE CASTRO y MODESTO, 2010; MAGRO y REIS, 2011; JACCOUD, 2013; TASSARA, 2015). Normalmente, las receptoras de las transferencias son las madres. Para seleccionar los destinatarios, usan la focalización geográfica y una comprobación indirecta de los medios de vida. Algunos critican a los PTR por evadir temas de fondo como la reforma substantiva del mercado laboral, la redistribución equitativa del ingreso y la creación de sistemas de protección social más amplios e inclusivos. No obstante, "las evaluaciones y estudios realizados demuestran que los PTR generaron impactos positivos, como aumento de matrículas escolares, mejoría de la atención en salud preventiva y

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Science, Reform, and Politics in Victorian Britain

Goldman

2002

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This book is a study of the relationships between social thought, social policy and politics in Victorian Britain. Goldman focuses on the activity of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, known as the Social Science Association. For three decades this served as a forum for the discussion of Victorian social questions and as an influential adviser to governments, and its history discloses how social policy was made in these years. The Association, which attracted many powerful contributors, including politicians, civil servants, intellectuals and reformers, had influence over policy and legislation on matters as diverse as public health and women's legal and social emancipation. The SSA reveals the complex roots of social science and sociology buried in the non-academic milieu of nineteenth-century reform. And its influence in the United States and Europe allows for a comparative approach to political and intellectual development in this period.

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4. The Verein für Sozialpolitik and the Fabian Society: A Study in the Sociology of Policy-Relevant Knowledge

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“What isn't in the files, isn't in the world”: Understanding state ignorance of irregular migration in Germany and the United Kingdom

“What isn't in the files, isn't in the world”: Understanding state ignorance of irregular migration in Germany and the United Kingdom

Formación de Agenda de los Programas de Trasferencia de Renta en los países del Cono Sur de América

Science, Reform, and Politics in Victorian Britain

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