Comparative Public Policy in Latin America / / Jordi Diez, Susan Franceschet.

• VerfasserIn: Diez, Jordi,; Franceschet, Susan,
• MitwirkendeR: Castiglioni, Rossana,; Díez, Jordi,; Felder, Ruth,; Franceschet, Susan,; Kubal, Mary Rose,; Lacombe, Delphine,; Lopreite, Débora,; Luccisano, Lucy,; Macdonald, Laura,; Marsiaj, Juan,; Patroni, Viviana,; Smulovitz, Catalina,; Teichman, Judith,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (328 p.) :; 4 figures

This pioneering collection offers a comprehensive investigation into how to study public policy in Latin America. While this region exhibits many similarities with the North American and European countries that have traditionally served as sources for generating public policy knowledge, Latin American countries are also different in many fundamental ways. As such, existing policy concepts and frameworks may not always be the most effective tools of analysis for this unique region.To fill this gap, Comparative Public Policy in Latin America offers guidelines for refining current theories to suit Latin America's contemporary institutional and socio-economic realities. The contributors accomplish this task by identifying the features of the region that shape public policy, including informal norms and practices, social inequality, and weak institutions. This book promises to become the definitive work on contemporary public policy in Latin America, essential for those who study the area as well as comparative public policy more broadly.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. Policy-Making and Policy Processes -- 1. Thinking about Politics and Policymaking in Contemporary Latin America -- 2. Presidentialism and Policy-making in Latin America: The Case of Mexico -- 3. The New Institutionalism and Industrial Policy-making in Chile -- 4. Turbulent Times: Structural Reforms, Crisis, and Labour Policy in Argentina, 1990s-2000s -- Part II. Advocacy and Policy Change -- 5. Public Policy by Other Means: Playing the Judicial Arena -- 6. Federalism, Advocacy Networks, and Sexual Diversity Politics in Brazil -- 7. Agenda through Dispute: The Zoilamérica Narváez-Daniel Ortega Controversy -- 8. Transnational Policy Networks and Public Security Policy in Argentina and Chile -- Part III. Old and New Directions in Social Policy -- 9. The Limits of Anti-Poverty Policy: Citizenship, Accountability, and Semi-clientelism in Mexico's Oportunidades Program -- 10. Gendering Welfare State Regimes in Latin America: Argentina in Comparative Perspective -- 11. Social Policy Reform and Continuity under the Bachelet Administration -- 12. Public Policy in Latin America: Towards a New Research Agenda -- Contributors -- Index