Welfare and Social Protection in Contemporary Latin America (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Cruz-Martínez, Gibrán

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book analyses how social protection systems and welfare regimes are applied in contemporary Latin America, and how they can help promote development, and reduce poverty and inequality. This interdisciplinary volume will interest economists, political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists and historians working on social protection.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429895661
• Artikelnr.: 55866879

Autorenporträt

Gibrán Cruz-Martínez is a Juan de la Cierva Researcher at the Institute of Public Goods and Policies, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I Social Policy and Welfare regimes in Contemporary Latin America 1.
Comparative Social Policy in Contemporary Latin America: Concepts, Theories
and a Research Agenda 2. Welfare Regimes in Latin America: Thirty Years of
Social Reforms and Conflicting Paradigms 3. Social Protection in Latin
America: One Region, Two Systems 4.The Reforms of Welfare Regimes at the
Turn of the Century in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica and Uruguay
Part II Politics of Social Protection in Latin America: Stakeholders and
Institutions 5. Making Foreign: Legal Identity, Social Policy and the
Contours of Belonging in the Contemporary Dominican Republic 6. Trade
Unions Strategies and the Expansion of Pension Systems: The Cases of
Argentina and Uruguay 7. Domestication of Global Policy Norms:
Problematisation of the Conditional Cash Transfer Narrative 8. Social
Dimensions of the EU-Colombia Free Trade Agreement Part III Contemporary
Debates in Latin American Social Policy 9. Private Welfare Provision in
Rural Bolivia: Contrasting Visions of Social Protection 10. Cash Transfer
Programs as a Means to Women Empowerment? The 'Oportunidades' Case In
Tulancingo, Mexico (2002-2014) 11. The Future of Social Protection in Latin
America in a Context of Accelerated Changes