Cash Transfers and Basic Social Protection offers a ground-breaking analysis of the discourses that facilitated the rise of cash transfers as instruments of development policy since the 1990s. The author gives a detailed overview of the history of social protection and identifies the factors that made cash transfers legitimate policy.

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Moritz von Gliszczynski is a leading researcher at LAG Soziale Brennpunkte Niedersachsen, Germany. He holds a PhD in sociology from Bielefeld University and from 2010 to 2013 worked as a researcher for the Financial Assistance, Land Policy, and Global Social Rights research group (FLOOR).

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Introduction 1. Theory: A Multi-Level Analysis Of Global Policy Ideas 2. Constructing Global Models Of Cash Transfers (2000-2012) 2.1 The Idea Of Social Cash Transfers 2.2 How To Make A Global Model Four Variants Of Cash Transfers 2.2.1 Family Allowances: The Globalisation Of A Northern Model 2.2.2 Conditional Cash Transfers: Strategic Uptake Of Innovative National Models In The Global South 2.2.3 Social Pensions: Creating A Global Model Through Focused Advocacy 2.2.4 General Household Assistance: From Archetype Of SCT To Weak Policy Model 2.3 Alternative Models Of Basic Social Protection 3. Social Protection As A Paradigm Of Development Policy (1990-2000) 3.1 Conceptual Prelude: Paradigms On The Global Level 3.2 The Web Of Ideas In Its Current State Problem Definitions, Frames And Policy Community 3.3 The Historical Emergence Of The Web Of Ideas 4. Global Discourses The Ideas Behind Cash Transfers 4.1 Poverty The Construction Of Agency 4.2 Development The Individualisation Of Progress 4.3 Risk The Discovery Of Uncertainty 4.4 Human Rights The Rise Of Social Rights 4.5 Discourse Coalitions And Discursive Practices Conclusion