The Power of Place

Frazier, Mark W.

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“…Yet there are other, unheralded applications of the CAS mode in sub-national comparison. This includes the comparison of cities, such as Mark Frazier's comparative study of labor movements and mobilization in Shanghai and Mumbai [Frazier 2019]; the examination of cross-border trade flows and modes of production, as in Calvin Chen's examination of Chinese workers in the Italian textiles industry [Chen 2015;; and the study of stateless groups and diasporas, as Harris Mylonas and Nadav Shelef propose and implement [Mylonas, Shelef 2017].…”

Section: Cas and The Question Of Scalementioning

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Comparative Area Studies and the Study of the Global South

Sil

Ahram

2020

Vestn. Ross. univ. družby nar., Ser. Meždunar. otnoš.

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Comparative Area Studies (CAS) offers a template to bring the Global South back into the foreground of social science inquiry. CAS urges researchers to grapple directly with empirical variations derived from across the seemingly different global regions. CAS offers three comparative modes: intra-regional, cross-regional, and trans-regional. A number of scholars have used CAS’s comparative rubrics, even without knowing about the wider CAS agenda and program. CAS unsettles assumptions about discrete, fixed “regional” or civilizational blocks as well as about nomothetic theory-building aimed at universal or general laws. At the same time, CAS engages in the idea of medium-range theory-building, focusing empirical rigor and induction in order to create concepts and analyses that are portable yet contextualized. These macro-historical theories must be attentive to spatial and temporal variation in the social world. Claims of universalism are suspect. For the study of the Global South, in particular, CAS provides a path for aggregating and leveraging the wide range of observations and interpretations area specialists have to offer on regions as diverse as South Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and sub-Saharan Africa. CAS thus changes the division of labor within social science to allow greater input for scholarship derived from and originating in the developing world.

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Section: Cas and The Question Of Scalementioning

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Comparative Area Studies and the Study of the Global South

Sil

Ahram

2020

Vestn. Ross. univ. družby nar., Ser. Meždunar. otnoš.

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Social policies in democratic and authoritarian regimes: comparing the introduction and implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee in India and Dibao in China

Béland

Bodruzic³

et al. 2022

J. int. comp. soc. policy

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Research on the welfare state often examines social policies in democratic regimes separately from social policies in authoritarian regimes. Two bodies of research have emerged, as the extant literature views these political systems as sufficiently distinct to merit the division of analysis. In this article, we challenge the existing approach by showing that differing regime types can indeed be analysed together. By looking for patterns of similarities, rather than differences, we bring the two literatures into conversation and show how a common factor can trigger social policy expansion in both regime types. Using case studies of India and China, the two most populous democratic and authoritarian regimes, this article illustrates how the expansion of policies that serve low-income groups – India’s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee (NREGA) and China’s Minimum Livelihood Guarantee Scheme (dibao) – were both prompted by social mobilisation.

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The Power of Place

Cited by 11 publications

References 145 publications

Comparative Area Studies and the Study of the Global South

Comparative Area Studies and the Study of the Global South

Social policies in democratic and authoritarian regimes: comparing the introduction and implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee in India and Dibao in China

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