Introduction / Rianne Mahon, Gerard W. Boychuk, and Stephen McBride Part 1: Context 1 Neo-Liberalism in Question? / Stephen McBride 2 Broadening the Frame: Inclusive Growth and the Social Investment Perspective / Jane Jenson 3 A New Era for Social Policy? Welfare States and the Financial Crisis / Kevin Farnsworth and Zoë Irving Part 2: International Organizations 4 Understanding Policy Change as Position-Taking: The IMF and Social Policies in Times of Crisis / Antje Vetterlein 5 The ILO and Social Protection Policy after the Global Financial Crisis: A Challenge to the World Bank / Bob Deacon 6 The ILO, Greece, and Social Dialogue in the Aftermath of the GFC / Nigel Haworth and Steve Hughes 7 It Takes Two to Tango: Conditional Cash Transfers, Social Policy, and the Globalizing Role of the World Bank/ Anthony Hall Part 3: Emerging Areas 8 Integrating the Social into CEPAL’s Neo-Structuralist Discourse/ Rianne Mahon 9 The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Mexican Social Policy / Lucy Luccisano and Laura Macdonald 10 Social Policy in South Africa: Cushioning the Blow of the Recession? / Marlea Clarke 11 In the Shadow of Crisis: Change and Continuity in China’s Post-Crisis Social Policy / Sarah Cook and Wing Lam Part 4: Global North 12 Global Crisis and Social Policy in Peripheral Europe: Comparing Ireland, Portugal, and Greece / Berkay Ayhan and Stephen McBride 13 Austerity Budgets and Public Sector Retrenchment: Crisis Era Policy Making in Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia / Heather Whiteside 14 Austerity Lite: Social Determinants of Health under Canada’s Neo-Liberal Capture/ Ronald Labonté and Arne Ruckert 15 US Incremental Social Policy Expansionism in Response to Crisis / Gerard W. Boychuk Conclusion / Gerard W. Boychuk, Rianne Mahon, and Stephen McBride
