The Politics of Non-State Social Welfare -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Mapping Social Welfare Regimes beyond the OECD -- 2. The Political Consequences of Non-state Social Welfare: An Analytical Framework -- Part I. States, Non-state Social Welfare, and Citizens in the Developing World -- 3. Empowering Local Communities and Enervating the State? : Foreign Oil Companies as Public Goods Providers in Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan -- 4. The Politics of "Contracting Out" to the Private Sector: Water and Sanitation in Argentina -- 5. Blurring the Boundaries: NGOs, the State, and Service Provision in Kenya -- 6. Bridging the Local and the Global: Faith-Based Organizations as Non-state Providers in Tanzania -- 7. Sectarian Politics and Social Welfare: Non-state Provision in Lebanon -- 8. The Reciprocity of Family, Friends, and Neighbors in Rural Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire -- 9. The Naya Netas : Informal Mediators of Government Services in Rural North India -- Part II. The Politics of Non-state Social Welfare in Emerging Markets and the Industrialized World -- 10. Private Provision with Public Funding: The Challenges of Regulating Quasi Markets in Chilean Education -- 11. "Spontaneous Privatization" and Its Political Consequences in Russia's Postcommunist Health Sector -- 12. State Dollars, Non-state Provision: Local Nonprofit Welfare Provision in the United States -- Conclusion -- References -- Contributors -- Index.