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Papers by Sony Pellissery

Social Policy and Society

This article examines how the property rights in land have come to be a constitutive element of s... more This article examines how the property rights in land have come to be a constitutive element of social citizenship. Reviewing the theoretical developments on the idea of social citizenship since Marshall’s seminal essay on Citizenship and Social Class (1950), this introductory article identifies four processes which bring property rights to the centre stage of social rights. First, recognition of entitlement beyond ownership opens up different social functions of property. Social citizenship as a tool is able to demand contextually appropriate rights from the bundle of rights that property is constituted of. Second, the idea of social citizenship is global today, and has transcended nation-state boundaries. How trade and communications impact property in land shapes the realisation of social rights. Three, active citizens contribute to the creation of public spaces in emerging urban residential areas. Citizens make social claims on such spaces through radical forms of insurgent citi...

SSRN Electronic Journal

Traditionally, constitutional economics prefers a constitutional constraint legitimized by rule o... more Traditionally, constitutional economics prefers a constitutional constraint legitimized by rule of law over economic constraint when public policy decisions are made. However, pragmatic politics considers both these types of restraints as too feeble in the electoral games. Very often, ideologies drive the passions for political decision making. In this paper, we examine why electoral logic and economic logic may not be sufficient for the transformative vision of constitution in contexts where huge social inequalities prevail. We show this through demonstration of the interplay of Indian economic policies and constitutional values. We argue that in the build up towards neo-liberal era, constitutional values were systematically sidelined. However, the crisis of neo-liberalism forces us to look for alternative policy making approaches, and the Constitutional economics can provide some viable options.

The International Journal of Social Quality

The special issue focuses on the impact of antipoverty measures-accounting for social and structu... more The special issue focuses on the impact of antipoverty measures-accounting for social and structural dimensions in the poverty experience and moving beyond an income-only focus-in five country cases: China, India, Norway, Uganda, and the United States. Particularly, we focus on the implications of shame in the delivery of antipoverty measures, as an individual and social phenomenon that relates to feelings of self-inadequacy, as well to a lack of dignity and recognition. We analyze delivery interactions through an analytic framework of rights, discretion and negotiation, as this enables us to parse out how policy delivery interactions presumed or enabled individual choice, ability, control, and voice. We suggest social citizenship can structure the relationships between welfare recipients and administrators. As a concept, it expands the objects of social rights beyond the materiality of human life (e.g., housing, pensions) to include intangible processual elements (e.g., dignity) in the construct of rights.

Barrientos, Armando and Davy, Benjamin and Davy, Ulrike and Dean, Hartley and Jacobs, Harvey M. a... more Barrientos, Armando and Davy, Benjamin and Davy, Ulrike and Dean, Hartley and Jacobs, Harvey M. and Leisering, Lutz and Pellissery, Sony The road to global social citizenship. FLOOR Working Paper, 10. Financial Assistance, Land Policy, and Global Social Rights ( ...

The use of cash transfers within the anti-poverty policy domain has witnessed a ‘quiet revolution... more The use of cash transfers within the anti-poverty policy domain has witnessed a ‘quiet revolution’ across the Global South over the past decade (Barrientos and Hulme, 2008). At the same time, conditionality – the granting of cash transfers or services on the condition that the recipient carries out activities or meets certain behavioural requirements – has been increasingly applied in social assistance programmes in the Global North (Griggs and Bennett, 2010). It is, however, a relatively new strategy to anti-poverty efforts in the Global South. Yet reflecting a contemporary neo-liberal agenda, conditional cash transfers, with some success stories in Latin America, are now being advocated as a policy model for these regions as well (Dornan and Porter, 2012). A comparative, qualitative study across five settings – two in the Global North (Norway, the UK) and three in the South (China, India, and South Korea) – has explored the psychosocial impact of anti-poverty measures aiming to ma...

Social Policy in a Developing World, 2013

La Revista Internacional de Seguridad Social, 2008

International Journal of Rural Management, 2005

Rural India is set to experience another wave of rural public works programmes (PWP). The major i... more Rural India is set to experience another wave of rural public works programmes (PWP). The major inspiration in this venture is 25-year-old Employment Guarantee Scheme of the government of Maharashtra (MEGS). Though various evaluations have been done on the MEGS, the principle of self-targeting, the hallmark of the MEGS and being adopted in the proposed all-India PWP, has not been critically evaluated. This article is bridging this gap, and suggesting some cautions in applying the principle of self-selection to the ‘un-free’ rural labour market of India. Based on data of ethnographic fieldwork of eight months in the region of Marathwada, the article identifies political constraints that exclude some villages from being included in the MEGS. Even when public works are in place in the villages, the local elite who have informal ownership of these projects could block the entry of some of the poorest households to these programmes. Such local elite in liaison with some ethnic groups cou...

Contemporary South Asia, 2008

Abstract The analysis of public works programmes using the theory of real options argues that the... more Abstract The analysis of public works programmes using the theory of real options argues that the effectiveness of these programmes can be studied by examining the switches the workers make between public works and other labour market activities. The wage rate ...

Asian Social Work and Policy Review, 2010

, since 2011. I would like to express my gratitude to Lutz Leisering, Ulrike Davy, and Benjamin D... more , since 2011. I would like to express my gratitude to Lutz Leisering, Ulrike Davy, and Benjamin Davy for the opportunity to engage with two subgroups of the ZiF research group from which this volume flows. Ideas presented in this chapter were mainly developed in consultation with different scholars in residence at ZiF. I would also like to thank colleagues at the Institute of Public Policy, Bangalore, for inputs on the draft paper. Some of the articles in which these ideas were earlier published include

IMISCOE Research Series

India has a segmented social protection system. About 92% of workers in India are in unorganised ... more India has a segmented social protection system. About 92% of workers in India are in unorganised sector, deprived of formal social security provisions. Those who are in formal sector receive very generous social protection arrangements close to that of welfare states in Europe, primarily influenced by the colonial legacy. Those in the informal sector primarily meet their social security needs from their disposable income. With expansive private welfare providers, the rich segment in the informal segment is able to afford this. Indian unskilled migrants, mainly in the Gulf region, have a range of benefits that are primarily to meet the civil rights, rather than social rights. Compared to this, Indian migrants in Western Europe and the Americas mainly benefit from the social security system in those countries. On the other hand, foreigners coming to India have limited social security arrangements. Since 2000, India has entered into bilateral agreements with several countries, which al...

Political Theory: Political Philosophy eJournal, 2016

Hannah Arendt’s famous use of ‘The Right to Have Rights’ is well studied and expanded by various ... more Hannah Arendt’s famous use of ‘The Right to Have Rights’ is well studied and expanded by various scholars. In this paper, authors make an attempt to expand this concept to apply this concept to the processes of policy enactment. Participation in the policy processes is proportionately arranged with the scheme of “the right to have rights” for different groups in a State. The right to have rights is the right to belong to a community. The first right in the phrase refers the right to inclusion, while the second right refers to further rights that comes when a person is included. Paper identifies that Hukou (determining spatial mobility) in China and Caste (determining social mobility) in India act as institutions of inclusion and thus determine ‘the right to have rights’. Both these institutions provide a framework to comparatively examine how the State recognizes social rights of specific groups. What has been the orientation of different political regimes to make changes to Hukou a...

This chapter by Sony Pellissery discusses social investments policies in India focusing on employ... more This chapter by Sony Pellissery discusses social investments policies in India focusing on employment and early childhood programmes and the way they seek to meet the needs of poor families in India and provide them with resources that have an investment function. The Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS), since its beginning in the 1970s, focused on providing nutrition to the pregnant women and children up to the age of formal schooling. In contexts where poverty is pervasive, the chances of welfare loss through neglect as well as affordability are very high. The long-term impact of such neglect on human capital is immense. Similarly, since 1972 one of the states of India â€“ Maharashtra â€“ has had an employment guarantee scheme, which has been scaled up to national level since 2005, with an aim to provide employment opportunities in lean agricultural seasons as well as to build community assets through such labour. The chapter offers a detailed review of these two programmes...

China, India, and East and Southeast Asia: Assessing Sustainability provides unprecedented analys... more China, India, and East and Southeast Asia: Assessing Sustainability provides unprecedented analyses by regional experts and scholars elsewhere in the world on China, India, and their neighbors. Despite growing demands internally on their natural resources (China and India alone are home to more than one-third of the world's population), the expanding global economic influence of this region makes these countries vital players in a sustainable future for all citizens of the Earth. Regional coverage includes topics such as business and commerce, environmental and corporate law, and lifestyles and values.

Politikwissenschaft und Entwicklungsökonomie vertreten. Die Gruppe zielt auf theoretische wie pol... more Politikwissenschaft und Entwicklungsökonomie vertreten. Die Gruppe zielt auf theoretische wie politiknahe Klärungen, was global social citizenship bedeuten kann, und zielt hierbei auf innovative Beiträge unter den Gesichtspunkten soziale Menschenrechte, Sozialpolitik und Bodenpolitik, etwa: Welche ›sozialen‹ Verpflichtungen leiten sich von sozialen Menschenrechten ab? Was ist das ›Soziale‹ in der globalen Sozialpolitik? Und was ist ›global‹ an der globalen Sozialpolitik? Gibt es eine ›soziale‹ Bodenpolitik und worin bestünde sie? Alles in allem: Gibt es im globalen Raum die Idee eines sozialen Minimums (auf der staatlichen Ebene umgesetzt etwa in Form von Geldleistungen oder bodenpolitischen Maßnahmen) als Kern einer sich entwickelnden globalen sozialen Teilhabe (citizenship)? Welches sind ihre menschenrechtlichen, politischen und sozialmoralischen Grundlagen und Folgen? Der Hauptbeitrag (von Armando Barrientos und Sony Pellissery) analysiert die großen neuen Sozialtransfersysteme in Brasilien, Indien und Südafrika, ihre Entstehungsbedingungen, ihre Probleme und Perspektiven im Spannungsfeld zwischen Sozial-und Entwicklungspolitik. Der Beitrag von Ulrike Davy weist auf die ungeklärten menschenrechtsdogmatischen Fragen globaler sozialer Teilhabe hin. Lutz Leisering formuliert für die Sozialpolitikforschung die Frage, inwieweit die globale Verbreitung von Sozialtransfers auf globale Diffusionsprozesse zurückführbar ist. Die Beiträge von Benjamin Davy und Harvey Jacobs fragen nach der möglichen Rolle privaten wie gemeinschaftlichen Bodeneigentums für globale Bürgerrechte. Hartley Dean skizziert Postulate einer normativen Theorie sozialer Teilhabe, darunter Solidarität als Voraussetzung globaler sozialer Teilhabe.

Social Policy and Society, 2020

This is a very useful resource on covenants and treaties that guide land governance international... more This is a very useful resource on covenants and treaties that guide land governance internationally. It also has a repository of case laws covering important dimensions of citizenship such as forced eviction and access to land by women. The website also has reports of Special Rapporteurs on Internally Displaced Persons, Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Adequate Housing and Right to Food. The website can be accessed here: https:// www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/LandAndHR/Pages/LandandHumanRightsIndex.aspx.