Working papers | Institute for Democracy, Citizenship and Public

To date, Institute-based working papers have been published through the long-standing CSSR Working Paper series.

Year	Author	Title	WP number	Published by
2023	Lena Gronbach, Jeremy Seekings and Winnie Arthur	Lessons learned on social protection responses to Covid-19 in Botswana	35	IDCPPA
2023	Winnie Arthur	Cross-national differences in preferences for redistribution among Africa’s urban poor: evidence from a survey experiment in Zambia and South Africa	34	IDCPPA
2023	Winnie Arthur, Jeremy Seekings and Hangala Siachiwena	Social protection in urban Zambia: the view from below	33	IDCPPA
2022	Jacob Ulrich, Malin J. Nystrand and Lars Buur	Just give all the money to the poor?	32	IDCPPA
2022	Vayda Megannon	Experiences of accessing the Covid-19 Social Relief of Distress Grant in South Africa	31	IDCPPA
2021	Jeremy Seekings and Hangala Siachiwena	Voting preferences among Zambian voters ahead of the August 2021 elections	27	IDCPPA
2021	Hangala Siachiwena	Changes of government and the expansion of social cash transfer programmes in East and Southern Africa	26	IDCPPA
2021	Hangala Siachiwena	Populism in power: public policy in Zambia under President Michael Sata and the Patriotic Front government	25	IDCPPA
2020	Robert Mattes and Matthias Krönke	The consequences of partisanship in Africa	449	IDCPPA/CSSR
2020	Lena Gronbach	Social cash transfer payment systems in sub-Saharan Africa.	452	IDCPPA/CSSR
2020	Sydney Johnson,Remy Reya and Julia Ilhardt	Adapting South Africa’s Social Protection System for COVID-19.	451	IDCPPA/CSSR
2020	Thomas Isbell	Keeping tabs? Perceptions of relative deprivation and political trust in Africa	461	IDCPPA/CSSR
2020	Sishuwa, S	Cities and dominance: Urban strategies for political settlement maintenance and change: Zambia case study with Marja Hinfelaar and Danielle Resnick.	136	ESID
2020	Thomas Isbell	Keeping up with the Dlaminis: perceived inequality and satisfaction with democracy	458	IDCPPA/CSSR
2020	Jeremy Seekings	Bold promises, constrained capacity, stumbling delivery:the expansion of social protection in response to the Covid-19 lockdown in South Africa	465	IDCPPA/CSSR
2020	Jeremy Seekings	Failure to feed: State, civil society and feeding schemes in South Africa in the first three months of Covid-19 lockdown, March to June 2020	455	IDCPPA/CSSR
2020	Thomas Isbell	Inequality and support for democracy – a micro perspective	448	IDCPPA/CSSR
2020	Siachiwena, H.	The politics of social protection policy reform in Malawi, 2006-2017	447	IDCPPA/CSSR
2020	Sishuwa, S	Charisma and politics in post-colonial Africa	446	IDCPPA/CSSR
2019	Aeby, M.	SADC- The Southern Arrested Development Community? Enduring Challenges to Peace and Security in Southern Africa.	No.14	Nordic Africa Institute
2019	Chinyoka, I.	Familial child welfare regimes: The case of Botswana, 1966-2017	430	IDCPPA/CSSR
2019	Chinyoka, I.	Namibia’s Child Welfare Regime, 1990-2017	431	IDCPPA/CSSR
2019	Hallink, C	Defending negative freedoms: Liberalism as a response to the rising authoritarianism of the Botswana Democratic Party	439	IDCPPA/CSSR
2019	Hallink, C.	Liberalism as a manifestation of the ideals and values of Zambia’s Southern Province: The United Party for National Development andthe promotion of self-reliance through social welfare	437	IDCPPA/CSSR
2019	Hallink, C.	Promoting liberalism in post-apartheid South Africa: How liberal politicians in the Democratic Alliance approach social welfare	438	IDCPPA/CSSR
2019	Hlungwani, P. M., Masuku, S. & Magidi, M.	Mainstreaming of policies and institutions towards engendering a pro-youth, consensual and progressive empowerment policy in rural Zimbabwe	443	IDCPPA/CSSR
2019	Macheka, T. & Masuku, S.	Youth participation structures in Zimbabwe: A lens into the experiences of rural youth within WADCOs and VIDCOs	440	IDCPPA/CSSR
2019	Masuku, S.	The aligning of refugee social protection guidelines: Examining the impediments to their universal adoption	433	IDCPPA/CSSR
2019	Masuku, S.	Government and civil society: Collaboration and challenges in securing refugee rights	435	IDCPPA/CSSR
2019	Murithi, T.	Regional Reconciliation in Africa: The Elusive Dimension of Peace and Security	Claude Ake Memorial Paper No 10	Nordic Africa Institute
2019	Seekings, J.	The Limits to Global Social Policy: The ILO, the Social Protection Floor and the politics of welfare in Africa	432	IDCPPA/CSSR
2019	Seekings, J.	Social Grants and Voting in South Africa	436	IDCPPA/CSSR
2018	Hickey, S., Lavers, T., Nino-Zarazua, M and Seekings, J.	The negotiated politics of social protection in Sub-Saharan Africa.	2018/34	UNU-WIDER
2018	Hickey, S. and Seekings, J.	Who should get what, how and why? DfID and the transnational politics of social cash transfers in Sub-Saharan Africa.	409	CSSR
2018	Lockwood, S.J. and Kronke, M.	Do electoral systems affect how citizens hold their government accountable? Evidence from Africa.	181	Afrobarometer
2018	Moore, E. and Seekings, J.	Social protection, intergenerational relationships and conflict in South Africa.	419	CSSR
2018	Naidoo, V.	Machinery of government change in South Africa's post-democratic public administration.	none	PARI
2018	Seekings, J.	Voters, parties and elections in Zambia.	422	IDCPPA/CSSR
2018	Seekings, J.	The legitimacy of claims made on kin and state in South Africa.	416	CSSR
2017	Button, K. Moore, E. & Seekings, J.	South Africa’s Hybrid Care Regime: The changing and contested roles of individuals, families and the state after apartheid.	404	CSSR
2017	Hickey, S. & Seekings, J.	The global politics of social protection.	2017/115	UNU-WIDER
2017	Kelly, G.	Ways of Coping: how medical doctors manage their work within the social security system in South Africa.	405	CSSR
2017	Seekings, J.	“Affordability” and the Political Economy of Social Protection in Contemporary Africa.	2017/43	UNU-WIDER
2017	Seekings, J.	Building a conservative welfare state in Botswana.	2017/83	UNU-WIDER
2017	Siachiwena, H.	Social policy reform in Zambia under President Lungu, 2015-2017	403	CSSR
2016	Kabandula, A. & Seekings, J.	Donor influence, the Minister of Finance and welfare policy reform in Zambia, 2003-11	395	CSSR
2016	Kelly, G.	Hard and soft medicine: Doctors’ framing and application of the disability category in their assessments of grant claimants’ fitness to work in South Africa	384	CSSR
2016	Kelly, G.	“We want another doctor!” Citizen agency and contested notions of disability in social assistance applications in South Africa	383	CSSR
2016	Seekings, J.	“A lean cow cannot climb out of the mud, but a good cattleman does not leave it to perish”: The origins of a conservative welfare doctrine in Botswana under Seretse Khama, 1966-1980	387	CSSR
2016	Seekings, J.	‘Affordability’ and the political economy of social protection in contemporary Africa	389	CSSR
2016	Seekings, J.	Building a conservative welfare state in Botswana	388	CSSR
2016	Seekings, J.	The Introduction of Old Age Pensions in Zanzibar	393	CSSR
2016	Seekings, J.	Redefining the ‘affordability’ of social assistance programmes: The Child Support Grant in South Africa, 1998-2014	379	CSSR
2016	Siachiwena, H.	Social protection policy reform in Zambia during the Sata presidency, 2011-2014	380	CSSR