Social policy is a subdomain of public policy whereby governments are responsible for achieving set goals for the nation and its citizens through policy instruments combined with policy actors or institutions to implement the policies (Kwon 2013). Fitting within that broader definition, Deacon (2007) described global social policy (GSP) as a practical and scholarly form of action by governments impacting the social and welfare sectors of society. GSP is framed by global actors (e.g., international organizations) and the complex relationships between international policy actors (e.g., United Nations [UN], World Health Organization [WHO], World Bank) who prescribe social policy and use mechanisms of global redistribution, global social regulation, and global social rights to develop supranational social policies (Deacon et al. 1997; Deacon 2007; Kaasch et al. 2019). Specifically, GSP.
