TY - JOUR
T1 - Social policy as nation-building
T2 - identity formation, policy feedback, and social citizenship in Ghana
AU - Béland, Daniel
AU - Foli, Rosina
AU - Kpessa-Whyte, Michael
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, © 2018 Canadian Association of African Studies (CAAS).
PY - 2018/1/2
Y1 - 2018/1/2
N2 - Beyond economics-centric discourses about issues like “social investment,” in recent years scholars have argued that social programs, like education, healthcare, and income support arrangements, can be instrumental in the construction and reconstruction of national identities and solidarities at both the ideational and the institutional level. Drawing on this scholarship, this article makes a direct contribution to the comparative politics and policy literature by examining the trajectories of nation-building and social policy development in Ghana. It extends existing scholarship by providing an in-depth study of Ghana while using that case to further explore the understudied connection between social citizenship, identity formation, and policy feedbacks from existing social programs.
AB - Beyond economics-centric discourses about issues like “social investment,” in recent years scholars have argued that social programs, like education, healthcare, and income support arrangements, can be instrumental in the construction and reconstruction of national identities and solidarities at both the ideational and the institutional level. Drawing on this scholarship, this article makes a direct contribution to the comparative politics and policy literature by examining the trajectories of nation-building and social policy development in Ghana. It extends existing scholarship by providing an in-depth study of Ghana while using that case to further explore the understudied connection between social citizenship, identity formation, and policy feedbacks from existing social programs.
KW - Ghana
KW - Ghana
KW - citoyenneté sociale
KW - nation-building
KW - policy feedback
KW - politiques sociales
KW - rétroactions politiques
KW - social citizenship
KW - social policy
KW - édification de la nation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85044953547&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/00083968.2018.1425147
DO - 10.1080/00083968.2018.1425147
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85044953547
SN - 0008-3968
VL - 52
SP - 19
EP - 36
JO - Canadian Journal of African Studies
JF - Canadian Journal of African Studies
IS - 1
ER -