490 - Thematic Session. Inequality and Philanthropy

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Abstract

Social scientists have long argued that broader institutional arrangements shape individual lives. While earlier research typically measured societal inequality in terms of economic outcomes, recent scholarship has emphasized health as an increasingly important dimension of inequality. Much of the focus has been on theorizing if and how welfare state regimes matter for understanding health inequalities. Yet, in a neoliberal age, nations have varied and complex configurations of social welfare provision, and scholars and policymakers have paid increased attention to the role of government and the nonprofit sector, either alone or in conjunction, in determining health outcomes. This paper employs individual level survey data and national-level indicators in order to engage in the cross-national assessment of the relative impact of the government and the nonprofit sector on health inequalities.

Sub Unit

• Thematic Sessions

Session Organizer

• Emily A. Barman, Boston University

Individual Presentations

• The Welfare State vs. the Nonprofit Sector: Implications for Health Inequalities in a Comparative Perspective - Emily A. Barman, Boston University; Sigrun Olafsdottir, Boston University

• The Public-Private Polity: Democracy in an Age of Philanthropists and Social Entrepreneurs - Elisabeth S. Clemens, University of Chicago

• What’s a Public-Private Partnership, Anyway? - Nicole P. Marwell, City University of New York-Baruch College

• When Philanthropy Disrupts: Does Big-Money Philanthropy Supplant Public Goods and Diminish Civil Society? - Aaron Elliott Grodner Horvath, Stanford University

Discussant

• Joseph Galaskiewicz, University of Arizona