Comparative Public Policy in Latin America /

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

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 Americ...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (328 p.) :; 4 figures
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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

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