Meeting Needs within Limits
From Welfare States to Eco-Social Policy
Selected Past Publications
This page presents major examples of my other research under four headings;
Political Economy of Welfare States
HUMAN NEEDS AND WELL-BEING
Gough, I. (2014)
In: Comim, Flavio and Nussbaum, Martha C., (eds.) Capabilities, Gender, Equality: Towards Fundamental Entitlements. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp. 357-381.
Gough, I. (2011)
Bedürfnis; (Need). In Politische Theorie und Politische Philosophie: Ein Handbuch, edited by Martin Hartmann and Claus Offe. Munich: C.H.Beck, pp. 164-167.
Devine, J., Camfield, L., Gough, I
(2008)
Autonomy or dependence or both?: perspectives from Bangladesh. Journal of Happiness Studies, 9(1), 105-138.
Gough, I. and McGregor, J.A.
(2007)
Wellbeing in Developing Countries: From theory to research. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
"This is a beautifully constructed and apposite book for those seeking hope amid today's economic crisis and who work in development from any discipline or background. It challenges the conventional wisdom of money, commodities and economic growth as our main ways of understanding development and poverty and could have as much impact on development as Lanyard has done for the relationship between happiness and wealth. It is written by those and for those seeking a more inclusive model for understanding how people in developing countries see themselves and the possibilities of change"
Patricia d'Ardenne, Chartist
Available in English
Gough, I.
(2004)
Human well-being and social structures: relating the universal and the local. Global Social Policy, 4(3), 289-311.
Gough, I.
(2003)
Lists and Thresholds: Comparing the Doyal-Gough Theory of Human Need with Nussbaum's Capabilities Approach. Wed Working Paper no.1, Universitty of Bath.
Doyal, L. and Gough, I.
A Theory of Human Need. Macmillan Press.
"What is important and original (and doubtless in the eyes of some, presumptuous) about their project is that it not only tells us what our basic needs are (those of health and autonomy), but offers empirical criteria for the meeting of these goals."
Kate Soper, New Left Review
Available in English, Spanish, Italian and Chinese
Winner of the Deutscher prize 1992 and the Myrdal prize 1992
Link to first few chapters here.
POLITICAL ECONOMY OF WELFARE STATES
Gough, I.
(2013)
The Political Economy of Prevention. British Journal of Political Science.
Gough, I.
(2012)
Understanding Prevention Policy: A theoretical approach. London: New Economics Foundation.
Gough, I.
(2012)
The global future of social policy. Opening lecture of the International Seminar on Social Protection and Citizenship Today Fluminense Federal University, Niteroi, Rio de Janiero, November 2012.
Gough, I.
(2011)
Re-reviews: the political economy of the welfare state by Ian Gough. Review by Michael Hill with reply by Ian
Gough. I.
Social Policy & Administration, 46 (5), 582-587.
Gough, I.
(2011)
From Financial Crisis to Fiscal Crisis. In Social Policy and Economic Crisis, edited by Kevin Farnsworth and Zoe Irving. Policy Press.
Gough, I. and Therborn, G.
(2010)
Global Futures of the Welfare State. In Oxford Handbook of Comparative Welfare States, edited by Francis G. Castles, Stephan Leibfried, Jane Lewis, Herbert Obinger, and Christopher Pierson. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 703-720.
Gough, I.
(2008)
The Political Economy of the Welfare State' briefly revisted. An introduction to the Greek edition of the book 2008.
Gough, I.
(2000)
Global Capital, Human Needs and Social Policies: Selected Essays 1994-99. London: Palgrave.
"This hard-headed and hopeful collection of essays addresses a wide range of questions with subtlety and depth'."
Critical Social Policy
Available in English and Spanish
Gough, I. and Olafsson, G.
(1999)
Capitalism and Social Cohesion: Essays on Exclusion and Integration. London: Macmillan Press.
Gough, I., Bradshaw, J., Ditch, J., Eardley, T., & Whiteford, P.
(1997)
Social assistance in OECD countries. Journal of European Social Policy 7(1), 17-43.
Pfaller, A., Gough, I., & Therborn, G. (Eds.).
(1991)
Can the welfare state compete?: a comparative study of five advanced capitalist countries. Macmillan Pub Limited. Also available in Spanish.
Gough, I.
(1979)
The Political Economy of the Welfare State. Macmillan Press Ltd. Reprinted 14 times.
Available in Spanish, Italian, Swedish, Korean, Chinese and Japanese.
WELFARE REGIMES AND SOCIAL POLICY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Gough, Ian
(2014) Mapping social welfare regimes beyond the OECD.
In: Cammett, Melani and MacLean, Lauren, (eds.) The politics of non-social welfare. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, USA, pp. 17-30. Item not available from this repository.
Gough, Ian
(2013) Social policy regimes in the developing world.
In: Kennett, Patricia, (ed.) A Handbook of Comparative Social Policy. Elgar original reference (2nd). Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, Cheltenham UK, pp. 205-224. ISBN 9781849803663
Gough, I., Abu Sharkh, M.
(2011)
Financing welfare regimes: mapping heterogeneous revenue structures. International journal of social welfare, 20(3), 280-291.
Sharkh, M. A., Gough, I.
Global welfare regimes a cluster analysis. Global social policy, 10(1),27-58.
Gough, I. Sharkh, M. A.
Financing welfare regimes: a report for UNRISD
Gough, I.
(2009)
Electronic Lecture on 'Global Social Policy: A Welfare Regime Analysis'. Part of the Centre for the Analysis of South African Social Policy electronic lecture series on social policy 2009.
Gough, I.
European welfare states: Explanations and lessons for developing countries. In Inclusive States: Social policy and structural inequalities (A Dani and A de Haan, eds), Washington, DC: World Bank.
Gough, I. and McGregor, J.A.
(2007)
Wellbeing in Developing Countries: From theory to research. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
"This is a beautifully constructed and apposite book for those seeking hope amid today's economic crisis and who work in development from any discipline or background. It challenges the conventional wisdom of money, commodities and economic growth as our main ways of understanding development and poverty and could have as much impact on development as Lanyard has done for the relationship between happiness and wealth. It is written by those and for those seeking a more inclusive model for understanding how people in developing countries see themselves and the possibilities of change"
Patricia d'Ardenne, Chartist
Available in English
Wood, G., Gough, I.
(2006)
A comparative welfare regime approach to global social policy. World development, 34(10), 1696-1712.
Wood, G., Gough, I.,Barrientos, A., Bevan, P., Davis, P., Room, G.
(2004)
Insecurity and welfare regimes in Asia, Africa and Latin America: Social policy in development contexts. Cambridge University Press.
"This is the book that social policy scholars have been awaiting a very long time. Thanks to Ian Gough, Geof Wood and their collaborators, we now have a rigorous, comprehensive, and extraordinarily nuanced and subtle analysis of social protection systems in the Third World. The scholarly challenge is truly formidable, and they have met it with courage and aplomb. Insecurity and Welfare Regimes in Asia, Africa and Latin America is one of those rare books that no welfare state scholar or practitioner can ignore."
Gosta Esping-Andersen
"This book is a path-breaking contribution to comparative theory. The main theoretical argument is carried in ...Gough's excellent overview - This important book takes the whole debate about welfare regimes forward splendidly."
Michael Hill, Social Policy and Administration
OTHER RESEARCH AND MISCELANEOUS PUBLICATIONS
Gough, I., Runciman, G., Mace, R., Hodgson, G., Rustin, M.
Darwinian evolutionary theory and the social sciences. Twenty-first century society, 3(1), 65-86.