7. Sectarian Politics and Social Welfare: Non-state Provision in Lebanon

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Mapping Social Welfare Regimes beyond the OECD 17
6. 2. The Political Consequences of Non-state Social Welfare: An Analytical Framework 31
7. Part I States, Non-state Social Welfare, and Citizens in the Developing World
8. 3. Empowering Local Communities and Enervating the State? Foreign Oil Companies as Public Goods Providers in Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan 57
9. 4. The Politics of “Contracting Out” to the Private Sector: Water and Sanitation in Argentina 77
10. 5. Blurring the Boundaries: NGOs, the State, and Service Provision in Kenya 99
11. 6. Bridging the Local and the Global: Faith-Based Organizations as Non-state Providers in Tanzania 119
12. 7. Sectarian Politics and Social Welfare: Non-state Provision in Lebanon 137
13. 8. The Reciprocity of Family, Friends, and Neighbors in Rural Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire 157
14. 9. The Naya Netas : Informal Mediators of Government Services in Rural North India 175
15. Part II The Politics of Non-state Social Welfare in Emerging Markets and the Industrialized World
16. 10. Private Provision with Public Funding: The Challenges of Regulating Quasi Markets in Chilean Education 195
17. 11. “Spontaneous Privatization” and Its Political Consequences in Russia’s Postcommunist Health Sector 217
18. 12. State Dollars, Non-state Provision: Local Nonprofi t Welfare Provision in the United States 237
19. Conclusion 257
20. References 275
21. Contributors 309
22. Index 311