Comparative public policy in Latin America

Comparative public policy in Latin America /

"This pioneering collection offers a comprehensive investigation into how to study public policy in Latin America. Although this region exhibits many similarities with the North American and European countries that have traditionally served as sources for generating public policy knowledge, Lat...

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Other Authors: Díez, Jordi (Editor), Franceschet, Susan, 1965- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2012]
Series:Studies in comparative political economy and public policy ; 38.
Subjects:
Since 1980
Political planning > Latin America.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Reference.
Economic policy
Political planning
Politics and government
Social policy
Latin America > Social policy.
Latin America > Economic policy.
Latin America > Politics and government > 1980-
Amérique latine > Politique sociale.
Amérique latine > Politique économique.
Amérique latine > Politique et gouvernement > 1980-
Latin America
Online Access:Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)
Table of Contents:
  • pt. I: Policy-making and policy processes. Thinking about politics and policy-making in contemporary Latin America / Susan Franceschet and Jordi Díez
  • Presidentialism and policy-making in Latin America : the case of Mexico / Jordi Díez
  • The new institutionalism and industry policy-making in Chile / Judith Teichman
  • Turbulent times : structural reforms, crisis, and labour policy in Argentina, 1990s-2000s / Viviana Patroni and Ruth Felder
  • pt. II: Advocacy and policy change. Public policy by other means : playing the judicial arena / Catalina Smulovitz
  • Federalism, advocacy networks, and sexual diversity politics in Brazil / Juan Marsiaj
  • Agenda through dispute : the Zoilamérica Narváez-Daniel Ortega controversy / Delphine Lacombe; translated by Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott
  • Transnational policy networks and public security policy in Argentina and Chile / Mary Rose Kubal
  • pt. III: Old and new directions in social policy. The limits of anti-poverty policy : citizenship, accountability, and semi-clientelism in Mexico's Oportunidades program / Lucy Luccisano and Laura MacDonald
  • Gendering welfare state regimes in Latin America : Argentina in comparative perspective / Débora Lopreite
  • Social policy reform and continuity under the Bachelet administration / Rossana Castiglioni
  • Public policy in Latin America : towards a new research agenda / Jordi Díez and Susan Franceschet.

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