Sarah M. Brooks

Social Protection and the Market in Latin America

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Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a theoretical and empirical examination of government privatization of national old-age pension systems.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 390
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 563g
• ISBN-13: 9780521701495
• ISBN-10: 052170149X
• Artikelnr.: 25394367

Autorenporträt

Sarah M. Brooks is an Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department at Ohio State University. She has also been a post-doctoral Fellow at the Kellogg Institute at Notre Dame and a consultant for the World Bank. She has published articles in the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, World Politics, International Studies Quarterly, Comparative Political Studies, and Latin American Politics and Society and written chapters in several edited volumes, including Learning from Foreign Models in Latin American Policy Reform (2004), New Ideas about Old Age Security (2001) and Pension Reform: Issues and Prospects for Non-Financial Defined Contribution (NDC) Schemes (2006).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: 1. Introduction: transforming the welfare state: from social
protection to the market; 2. Explaining structural pension reform:
theoretical debate and empirical evidence; Part II: 3. Explaining the
institutional transformation of social security; Part III: 4. Pension
reform in Latin America: overview and scope of institutional
transformation; 5. Pension reform in an open economy: negotiating
globalization's double bind; 6. Contesting institutional change in society:
where political strategies meet institutional legacies; 7. legislative
conflict and institutional change: building majorities behind loss-imposing
reform; Part IV: 8. Conclusions and implications: toward a new social
contract?