Ana Lorena de La O

Crafting Policies to End Poverty in Latin America

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a theory and evidence explaining the initial decision of governments to adopt a conditional cash transfer program.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9781107089488
• ISBN-10: 1107089484
• Artikelnr.: 42138786

Autorenporträt

Ana Lorena De La O is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Yale University, Connecticut, where she is affiliated with the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, and the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. Her research relates to the political economy of poverty alleviation, clientelism, and the provision of public goods. Her work has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Studies, the Quarterly Journal of Political Science, and the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences. She earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2007.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. The universe of cash transfer programs
3. The politics of fighting poverty
4. Explaining policy adoption and design
5. Explaining policy outcomes
6. Conditional cash transfers and clientelism
7. The electoral bonus of conditional cash transfers
8. Conclusions.