Abstract
This chapter revisits Bob Deacon’s ‘socialization of globalization’ and the ‘globalization of social policy’ thesis (Deacon, 1995, 2007; Deacon and Hulse, 1996; Deacon with Hulse and Stubbs, 1997). His argument that the locus of contestation around the social politics of globalization has shifted from national policymaking arenas to spheres of cross-border governance and that a new global political agenda with a substantial social content has emerged has proved influential in reframing contemporary social policy research agendas around a global paradigm. At the time, his focus lay on international governmental organizations (IGOs) such as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Trade Organization (WTO), the United Nations (UN) and its social agencies (for example, the International Labor Organization (ILO) and the World Health Organization (WHO)) and programs (for example, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF)) as the key institutional loci of global social policy formation. Principal forces in ideological and political struggles to define the desirable model of welfare, these actors are also directly engaged in ‘transnational redistribution, supranational regulation and supranational and global provision’ (Deacon with Hulse and Stubbs, 1997: 22, my italics).
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