Outsourcing the Polity : : Non-State Welfare, Inequality, and Resistance in Myanmar / / Gerard McCarthy.
Outsourcing the Polity offers a new account of social outsourcing in post-independence Myanmar, demonstrating how the bankrupt post-socialist junta mediated market-reform in the 1990s and 2000s and forced private and non-state actors to take the burden for social welfare. Informed by research during...
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McCarthy, Gerard, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Outsourcing the Polity : Non-State Welfare, Inequality, and Resistance in Myanmar / Gerard McCarthy. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2023] ©2023 1 online resource (282 p.) : 5 b&w halftones, 3 maps, 1 chart, 8 graphs text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Language, Usage, and Currency -- Introduction: Social Outsourcing and Inequality -- 1. Distributive Politics since Colonization -- Part 1 AUTOCRATIC WELFARE CAPITALISM -- 2. Post-Socialist Welfare Outsourcing -- 3. Disasters and the Polity -- Part 2 DEMOCRATIC WELFARE CAPITALISM -- 4. Democracy, Freedom, and Morality -- 5. Philanthropy and Wealth Defense -- 6. Self-Reliance and Entitlement -- Conclusion: Path-Dependence and Welfare Regime Change -- Notes -- References -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Outsourcing the Polity offers a new account of social outsourcing in post-independence Myanmar, demonstrating how the bankrupt post-socialist junta mediated market-reform in the 1990s and 2000s and forced private and non-state actors to take the burden for social welfare. Informed by research during Myanmar's decade of partial civilian rule (2011-2021), Gerard McCarthy examines how ideals and practices of non-state welfare can both sustain democratic resistance and undermine social reform over time. Rather than expand government-led social action funded by direct taxation, grassroots activists and democratic leaders after 2011 variously framed government social action as ineffective, undesirable and even corrosive of civic norms. They instead encouraged citizens to be "self-reliant" and support each other, including during disasters. Powerful tycoons filled the social gap, using public philanthropy to remake their reputations and to defend their ongoing expropriation of land and state assets from potential democratic redistribution. With non-state social actors more important than ever following Myanmar's return to dictatorship in 2021, Outsourcing the Polity casts new light on the lasting legacies of outsourcing for distributive politics. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mai 2023) International Studies. Political Science & Political History. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies. bisacsh non-state welfare, sociology of welfare, social outsourcing, capitalism in Myanmar, Myanmar resistance welfare, Myanmar oligarchy, Charity welfare development. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023 9783110751833 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English 9783111319292 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 9783111318912 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Sociology 2023 English 9783111319261 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Sociology 2023 9783111318806 ZDB-23-DSL https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501767999?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501767999 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501767999/original |
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McCarthy, Gerard, McCarthy, Gerard, Outsourcing the Polity : Non-State Welfare, Inequality, and Resistance in Myanmar / Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Language, Usage, and Currency -- Introduction: Social Outsourcing and Inequality -- 1. Distributive Politics since Colonization -- Part 1 AUTOCRATIC WELFARE CAPITALISM -- 2. Post-Socialist Welfare Outsourcing -- 3. Disasters and the Polity -- Part 2 DEMOCRATIC WELFARE CAPITALISM -- 4. Democracy, Freedom, and Morality -- 5. Philanthropy and Wealth Defense -- 6. Self-Reliance and Entitlement -- Conclusion: Path-Dependence and Welfare Regime Change -- Notes -- References -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Language, Usage, and Currency -- Introduction: Social Outsourcing and Inequality -- 1. Distributive Politics since Colonization -- Part 1 AUTOCRATIC WELFARE CAPITALISM -- 2. Post-Socialist Welfare Outsourcing -- 3. Disasters and the Polity -- Part 2 DEMOCRATIC WELFARE CAPITALISM -- 4. Democracy, Freedom, and Morality -- 5. Philanthropy and Wealth Defense -- 6. Self-Reliance and Entitlement -- Conclusion: Path-Dependence and Welfare Regime Change -- Notes -- References -- Index |
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