Outsourcing the Polity : : Non-State Welfare, Inequality, and Resistance in Myanmar /

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
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McCarthy, Gerard,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (282 p.) :; 5 b&w halftones, 3 maps, 1 chart, 8 graphs
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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