Policy Diffusion, Domestic Politics and Social Protection in Lesotho, 1998 -- 2012
| dc.contributor.author | Granvik, Mia | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-05-12T07:52:03Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-05-12T07:52:03Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2016-05-12T07:07:23Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | Lesotho is one of a small number of countries in Africa to have introduced one national cash transfer programme (the Old Age Pension, OAP) and to be in the process of establishing another (the Child Grant Programme, CGP). Although Lesotho has followed what has been called the 'Southern African model', the introduction of the OAP was not the result of an explicit process of cross-national policy diffusion. The CGP was initially driven by international organisations, but the dynamics were not Southern African, and the Lesotho Government quickly took ownership of the initiative. Unlike in many other parts of Africa, these reforms were not resisted by domestic political elites. The OAP, especially, was championed by the Prime Minister, with support from the Minister of Finance. The reforms were rooted in both socio-economic changes, with the AIDS pandemic highlighting the inadequacy of extended familial responsibility for the poor, and political change, with the (possibly short-lived) restoration of stable democratic competition in the early 2000s opening the political space for programmatic reform. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Granvik, M. (2015). <i>Policy Diffusion, Domestic Politics and Social Protection in Lesotho, 1998 -- 2012</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19616 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Granvik, Mia <i>Policy Diffusion, Domestic Politics and Social Protection in Lesotho, 1998 -- 2012.</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR), 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19616 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Granvik, M. (2015). Policy Diffusion, Domestic Politics and Social Protection in Lesotho, 1998–. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Working Paper AU - Granvik, Mia AB - Lesotho is one of a small number of countries in Africa to have introduced one national cash transfer programme (the Old Age Pension, OAP) and to be in the process of establishing another (the Child Grant Programme, CGP). Although Lesotho has followed what has been called the 'Southern African model', the introduction of the OAP was not the result of an explicit process of cross-national policy diffusion. The CGP was initially driven by international organisations, but the dynamics were not Southern African, and the Lesotho Government quickly took ownership of the initiative. Unlike in many other parts of Africa, these reforms were not resisted by domestic political elites. The OAP, especially, was championed by the Prime Minister, with support from the Minister of Finance. The reforms were rooted in both socio-economic changes, with the AIDS pandemic highlighting the inadequacy of extended familial responsibility for the poor, and political change, with the (possibly short-lived) restoration of stable democratic competition in the early 2000s opening the political space for programmatic reform. DA - 2015 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2015 T1 - Policy Diffusion, Domestic Politics and Social Protection in Lesotho, 1998 -- 2012 TI - Policy Diffusion, Domestic Politics and Social Protection in Lesotho, 1998 -- 2012 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19616 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19616 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Granvik M. Policy Diffusion, Domestic Politics and Social Protection in Lesotho, 1998 -- 2012. 2015 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19616 | en_ZA |
| dc.language | eng | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.department | Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR) | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) | * |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | en_ZA |
| dc.title | Policy Diffusion, Domestic Politics and Social Protection in Lesotho, 1998 -- 2012 | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Working Paper | en_ZA |
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| uct.type.publication | Research | en_ZA |
| uct.type.resource | Research paper | en_ZA |