Local Culture, Globalization and Policy Outcomes: an Example from Long-Term Care

Abstract: It is argued that the impact of globalization and global ideologies on social policy can depend on the ways that local cultures reinforce or combat global ideologies and pressures. The article discusses the importance of local policy factors in shaping responses to globalization, taking as an example the way in which global forces have affected outcomes for older people needing long-term care in one marginalized province of a rich country. Local political, economic and sociocultural factors can reinforce global pressures for neo-liberal policies and rising individualism and overwhelm the global ideologies of democracy and human rights (including gender rights and anti ageism) that might lead to better outcomes for older people and their caregivers. In the New Brunswick province of Canada, traditional cultural values can be seen as one factor allowing politicians to make suboptimal social policy choices

Location
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Extent
Online-Ressource
Language
Englisch
Notes
Postprint
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: Global Social Policy ; 6 (2006) 3 ; 288-303

Classification
Wirtschaft

Event
Veröffentlichung
(where)
Mannheim
(when)
2006
Creator
Wilson, Gail

DOI
10.1177/1468018106069202
URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-229690
Rights
Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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  • Wilson, Gail

Time of origin

  • 2006

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