Overview
- Studies the drivers and scope of the changes and reforms in social protection systems in Latin America
- Analyzes the evolution and reforms of the most important social policies: health, pensions, education, dependency, poverty and social services, and unemployment and fiscal policy
- Provides a comparative perspective that goes beyond Latin America’s more developed countries or its southern cone
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This book explores the scope of reforms and changes in the social protection systems in Latin America that have started at the beginning of the 21st century. It describes how and to what extent changes in social protection systems and social policies have occurred in the region in recent decades. Taking a comparative approach, the volume identifies the triggers for the transformations and how such pressures are received by the welfare regime, or a specific policy sector, to finally yield a given type of reform. The analysis is characterized by the presence of certain factors that explain the development of social protection systems in Latin America, such as economic growth, the consolidation of democratic political regimes, and the region’s Left Turns. The book also examines to what extent common challenges and processes induced by international institutions have led to convergence among countries or welfare regimes, or whether each maintains its own identity.
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Durability and Change in Latin American Welfare Regimes
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Explaining Social Policy Change and Its Consequences in Latin America
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The end of an era?
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Natália Sátyro is Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political Science at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. She is the coordinator of ALACIP’s Public Policy Research Group (GIPP) since 2015 and co-convenor of IPSA’s Research Committee (RC39) on Welfare State and Developing Societies, since 2014.
Eloisa del Pino is Senior Researcher in the Institute of Public Goods and Policies (IPP) at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). She is conducting the GoWPER Project 2018–2020 Restructuring the Welfare Governance CSO2017-85598-R PN I+D.
Carmen Midaglia is Professor of Political Science at the Universidad de la República, Uruguay. She is Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Co-Coordinator of the Working Group on Poverty and Social Policies of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Latin American Social Policy Developments in the Twenty-First Century
Editors: Natália Sátyro, Eloísa del Pino, Carmen Midaglia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61270-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-61269-6Published: 13 February 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-61272-6Published: 13 February 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-61270-2Published: 12 February 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 349
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Political Science, Governance and Government, Development Studies