The FLOOR working papers present results and demonstrate the progress of FLOOR, an interdisciplinary research group partly funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. If a working paper has been published, please refer to the publication if you wish to quote. All rights reserved.
Design and layout for the FLOOR working papers by Benjamin Davy. The respective authors are responsible for the content, accuracy, and spelling of their working paper.
FLOOR Working Paper No. 16: Michael Leutelt (2012) HelpAge's involvement in spreading social pensions in the global South: Slow and steady wins the race? Includes 1 illustration and 1 FLOOR diffusion map.
FLOOR Working Paper No. 15: Michael Kolocek (2012) Land policy and the social floor to housing. The case of Latin America and Africa.
Based on a presentation at the 6th Annual Conference of the International Academic Association on Planning, Law, and Property Rights (PLPR) in Belfast (7–10 February 2012).
FLOOR Working Paper No. 14: Anne Casprig (2012) Soziale Innovationen im Menschenrechtsdiskurs. Eine Analyse globaler Boden(nutzungs-)rechte in ICESCR und CEDAW.
FLOOR Working Paper No. 13: Benjamin Davy (2011) Don't tell anyone. Positions on property. Series VII of Faces of Land Policy. File size: 8 MB
FLOOR Working Paper No. 12: Benjamin Davy (2011) Surprising developments. Urban renewal in India and Germany. Invited keynote speech to the Opening Plenary of the 55th World Congress of the International Federation for Housing and Planning, 11 September 2011, Estonia Concert Hall, Tallinn
FLOOR Working Paper No. 11: Moritz von Gliszczynski (2011) Ideas and discourse in policy research. Applying a constructivist approach on the global level.
FLOOR Working Paper No. 10: Armando Barrientos, Benjamin Davy, Ulrike Davy, Hartley Dean, Harvey M. Jacobs, Lutz Leisering, Sony Pellissery (2011) A road to global social citizenship? With 8 illustrations.
FLOOR Working Paper No. 9: Benjamin Davy (2011) Property and the politics of belonging. With 9 illustrations.
FLOOR Working Paper No. 8: Benjamin Davy & Sony Pellissery (2011) Gandhiji's talisman as social policy? 15 posters and 2 illustrations.
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FLOOR Working Paper No. 7: Luise Buschmann (2010) Die Entstehung des Menschenrechts auf soziale Grundsicherung im International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
FLOOR Working Paper No. 6: Benjamin Davy (2010) Räumliches Existenzminimum. Zu Bodenpolitik und Menschenwürde im Sozialstaat.
Invited paper, published August 2010 in Flächenmanagement und Bodenordnung 72 (4) 145–152.
FLOOR Working Paper No. 5: Benjamin Davy (2009) Sustainable land management and global social policy. Exploring self-descriptions of pro-poor land policy in China, India, Nepal, Tajikistan
Presented at the 2009 APSA Conference in Ahmadabad, India.
FLOOR Working Paper No. 4: Lutz Leisering (2010) Social assistance in developed and developing countries. A case of global social policy?
Revised version of a paper read at the International Symposium on International Setting of Standards and Innovation in Social Protection in Low Income Countries, organized by the Max-Planck-Institut für Ausländisches und Internationales Sozialrecht, Munich, 14–16 October 2009.
FLOOR Working Paper No. 3: Lutz Leisering (2009) Extending social security to the excluded. Are social cash transfers to the poor an appropriate way of fighting poverty in developing countries?
The final version has been published in: Global Social Policy vol. 9 (2009) no. 2: 246–272.
FLOOR Working Paper No. 2: Benjamin Davy (2009) The poor and the land: poverty, property, and planning
The final version has been published in: Town Planning Review vol. 80 (2009) no. 3: 227–265.
FLOOR Working Paper No. 1: Ulrike Davy (2008) Soziale Gleichheit — Voraussetzung oder Aufgabe der Verfassung?
Includes an abstract in English. The final version has been published in: Veröffentlichungen der Vereinigung der Deutschen Staatsrechtslehrer (2009) volume 68. De Gruyter Recht: Berlin: 122–174.