Replication Data for: Benevolent Policies: Bureaucratic Politics and the International Dimensions of Social Policy Expansion
<|begin_of_text|><|start_header_id|>system<|end_header_id|> You are a research archivist expert in dataset metadata. Answer the question truthfully.  <|eot_id|><|start_header_id|>user<|end_header_id|> Here is the Description of a dataset. Description:'Research on the welfare state has devoted considerable attention to social policy expansion. Strikingly little is known, however, about why governments expand social policies serving groups with low political power, on issues with low visibility. I call these “benevolent policies.” This class of social policies improves welfare but produces minimal political gains for the governments enacting them. Why do governments expand benevolent policies if political incentives for reform are limited? I investigate this question by focusing on government responses to malnutrition. Drawing on nine months of fieldwork, including 71 interviews, I argue that the origins of policy expansion can be found in the government bureaucracy. Bureaucrats with technical expertise – technocrats – play a defining role, deploying international pressure to court exe' . Please return only a json list of at most 3 Keywords corresponding to the Description:.<|eot_id|><|start_header_id|>assistant<|end_header_id|> {"Answer" : ["bureaucratic politics","health","international organizations","malnutrition","policy reform","social policies","technocrats","welfare state"]} <|eot_id|>
 Here is the Description of a dataset. Description:'Research on the welfare state has devoted considerable attention to social policy expansion. Strikingly little is known, however, about why governments expand social policies serving groups with low political power, on issues with low visibility. I call these “benevolent policies.” This class of social policies improves welfare but produces minimal political gains for the governments enacting them. Why do governments expand benevolent policies if political incentives for reform are limited? I investigate this question by focusing on government responses to malnutrition. Drawing on nine months of fieldwork, including 71 interviews, I argue that the origins of policy expansion can be found in the government bureaucracy. Bureaucrats with technical expertise – technocrats – play a defining role, deploying international pressure to court exe' . Please return only a json list of at most 3 Keywords corresponding to the Description:.
Research on the welfare state has devoted considerable attention to social policy expansion. Strikingly little is known, however, about why governments expand social policies serving groups with low political power, on issues with low visibility. I call these “benevolent policies.” This class of social policies improves welfare but produces minimal political gains for the governments enacting them. Why do governments expand benevolent policies if political incentives for reform are limited? I investigate this question by focusing on government responses to malnutrition. Drawing on nine months of fieldwork, including 71 interviews, I argue that the origins of policy expansion can be found in the government bureaucracy. Bureaucrats with technical expertise – technocrats – play a defining role, deploying international pressure to court exe
bureaucratic politics; health; international organizations; malnutrition; policy reform; social policies; technocrats; welfare state