Welfare and Party Politics in Latin America
Title | Welfare and Party Politics in Latin America PDF eBook |
Author | Jennifer Pribble |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 233 |
Release | 2013-04-22 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1107030226 |
Explores the variation in welfare and other social assistance policies in Latin America.
The Political Economy of Taxation in Latin America
Title | The Political Economy of Taxation in Latin America PDF eBook |
Author | Gustavo Flores-Macias |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 285 |
Release | 2019-06-27 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1108474578 |
Offers a comprehensive, region-wide analysis of the politics of taxation in Latin America to make reforms politically palatable and sustainable.
Understanding Institutional Weakness
Title | Understanding Institutional Weakness PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel M. Brinks |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 75 |
Release | 2019-06-27 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9781108738880 |
This Element introduces the concept of institutional weakness, arguing that weakness or strength is a function of the extent to which an institution actually matters to social, economic or political outcomes. It then presents a typology of three forms of institutional weakness: insignificance, in which rules are complied with but do not affect the way actors behave; non-compliance, in which state elites either choose not to enforce the rules or fail to gain societal cooperation with them; and instability, in which the rules are changed at an unusually high rate. The Element then examines the sources of institutional weakness.
Democracy at Work
Title | Democracy at Work PDF eBook |
Author | Brian Wampler |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 375 |
Release | 2019-11-28 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1108493149 |
Demonstrates how specific dimensions of democracy - participation, citizenship rights, and an inclusionary state - enhance human development and well-being.
IFDA Dossier
Title | IFDA Dossier PDF eBook |
Author | International Foundation for Development Alternatives |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1194 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | Developing countries |
ISBN |
Los grandes problemas de México. Tomo 15. Seguridad nacional y seguridad interior
Title | Los grandes problemas de México. Tomo 15. Seguridad nacional y seguridad interior PDF eBook |
Author | Arturo Alvarado y Mónica Serrano, coordinadores |
Publisher | El Colegio de Mexico AC |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 2013-01-22 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Welfare and Social Protection in Contemporary Latin America
Title | Welfare and Social Protection in Contemporary Latin America PDF eBook |
Author | Gibrán Cruz-Martínez |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 2019-03-19 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0429895666 |
Social protection serves as an important development tool, helping to alleviate deprivation, reduce social risks, raise household income and develop human capital. This book brings together an interdisciplinary team of international experts to analyse social protection systems and welfare regimes across contemporary Latin America. The book starts with a section tracking the expansion of social assistance and social insurance in Latin America through the state-led development era, the neoliberal era and the pink-tide. The second section explores the role played by local and external actors modelling social policy in the region. The third and final section addresses a variety of contemporary debates and challenges around social protection and welfare in the region, such as gender roles and the empowerment of CCT beneficiaries, and welfare provision for rural outsiders. The book touches on key topics such as conditional cash transfer programmes, trade union inclusionary strategies, transnational social policy, state-led versus market-led welfare provision, explanatory factors in the emerging dualism of social protection institutions, social citizenship rights as a consequence of changing social policy architecture and different poverty reduction strategies. This interdisciplinary volume will be of interest to economists, political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists and historians working on social protection in Latin America, or interested in welfare systems in the global south.