Lutz Leisering is Professor of Social Policy in the Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University, Germany, and founding member of the Institute for World Society Studies. He has published empirical, theoretical, and comparative studies of social policy in Europe and the global South, especially on old-age security, social assistance, global social policy, and the global diffusion of ideas. His publications include German Social Policy (5 volumes, Springer, 2013), The New Regulatory State: Regulating Pensions in Germany and the UK (Edited, Palgrave, 2011), and Time and Poverty in Western Welfare States: United Germany in Perspective (CUP, 1999).

• Introduction 1: Making Sense of a Quiet Revolution-the Global Rise of Social Assistance Part I: Theories and Concepts 2: Theorizing Social Policy in Development Contexts: A Constructivist Approach 3: Basic Social Security: From Poor Relief to Social Assistance to Social Cash Transfers Part II: Mapping the Global Rise of Social Cash Transfers 4: Lutz Leisering with Moritz von Gliszczynski: Models of Social Cash Transfers: Policy Proposals by International Organizations 5: Lutz Leisering with Katrin Weible: Social Cash Transfers in the Global South: An Entitlement Revolution 6: Lutz Leisering with Tobias Böger: Case Study: Social Pensions in the Global South Part III: Explaining the Global Rise of Social Cash Transfers 7: Lutz Leisering with Moritz von Gliszczynski: Changing Global Discourses: New Reasons for Social Security 8: Lutz Leisering with Tobias Böger: National and International Drivers of the Spread of Social Cash Transfers Part IV: Social Cash Transfers-Past, Present, and Future 9: Social Cash Transfers for the Poor-Achievements, Limitations, Backgrounds 10: Towards a Theory of Social Assistance 11: The Quest for Universalism Appendix 1 Appendix 2

Lutz Leisering is Professor of Social Policy in the Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University, Germany, and founding member of the Institute for World Society Studies. He has published empirical, theoretical, and comparative studies of social policy in Europe and the global South, especially on old-age security, social assistance, global social policy, and the global diffusion of ideas. His publications include German Social Policy (5 volumes, Springer, 2013), The New Regulatory State: Regulating Pensions in Germany and the UK (Edited, Palgrave, 2011), and Time and Poverty in Western Welfare States: United Germany in Perspective (CUP, 1999).

• Introduction 1: Making Sense of a Quiet Revolution-the Global Rise of Social Assistance Part I: Theories and Concepts 2: Theorizing Social Policy in Development Contexts: A Constructivist Approach 3: Basic Social Security: From Poor Relief to Social Assistance to Social Cash Transfers Part II: Mapping the Global Rise of Social Cash Transfers 4: Lutz Leisering with Moritz von Gliszczynski: Models of Social Cash Transfers: Policy Proposals by International Organizations 5: Lutz Leisering with Katrin Weible: Social Cash Transfers in the Global South: An Entitlement Revolution 6: Lutz Leisering with Tobias Böger: Case Study: Social Pensions in the Global South Part III: Explaining the Global Rise of Social Cash Transfers 7: Lutz Leisering with Moritz von Gliszczynski: Changing Global Discourses: New Reasons for Social Security 8: Lutz Leisering with Tobias Böger: National and International Drivers of the Spread of Social Cash Transfers Part IV: Social Cash Transfers-Past, Present, and Future 9: Social Cash Transfers for the Poor-Achievements, Limitations, Backgrounds 10: Towards a Theory of Social Assistance 11: The Quest for Universalism Appendix 1 Appendix 2

Lutz Leisering is Professor of Social Policy in the Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University, Germany, and founding member of the Institute for World Society Studies. He has published empirical, theoretical, and comparative studies of social policy in Europe and the global South, especially on old-age security, social assistance, global social policy, and the global diffusion of ideas. His publications include German Social Policy (5 volumes, Springer, 2013), The New Regulatory State: Regulating Pensions in Germany and the UK (Edited, Palgrave, 2011), and Time and Poverty in Western Welfare States: United Germany in Perspective (CUP, 1999).

• Introduction 1: Making Sense of a Quiet Revolution-the Global Rise of Social Assistance Part I: Theories and Concepts 2: Theorizing Social Policy in Development Contexts: A Constructivist Approach 3: Basic Social Security: From Poor Relief to Social Assistance to Social Cash Transfers Part II: Mapping the Global Rise of Social Cash Transfers 4: Lutz Leisering with Moritz von Gliszczynski: Models of Social Cash Transfers: Policy Proposals by International Organizations 5: Lutz Leisering with Katrin Weible: Social Cash Transfers in the Global South: An Entitlement Revolution 6: Lutz Leisering with Tobias Böger: Case Study: Social Pensions in the Global South Part III: Explaining the Global Rise of Social Cash Transfers 7: Lutz Leisering with Moritz von Gliszczynski: Changing Global Discourses: New Reasons for Social Security 8: Lutz Leisering with Tobias Böger: National and International Drivers of the Spread of Social Cash Transfers Part IV: Social Cash Transfers-Past, Present, and Future 9: Social Cash Transfers for the Poor-Achievements, Limitations, Backgrounds 10: Towards a Theory of Social Assistance 11: The Quest for Universalism Appendix 1 Appendix 2