Democracy and Social Policy

This book examines the conditions under which democratic regimes can deliver adequate social protection to citizens as well as how social policy aids democratic consolidation.

YUSUF BANGURA is a Research Co-ordinator at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) where he has co-ordinated projects on structural adjustment, public sector reform, ethnic inequalities and public sector governance, racism and public policy, technocratic policymaking, and democracy and social policy. He has published widely on these issues, including on the politics of international economic relations, and taught political science in universities in Nigeria and Canada. He is currently coordinating UNRISD's project on poverty reduction and policy regimes.