Crucial Needs, Weak Incentives - Social Sector Reform, Democratization, Globalization in Latin

Informationen zum Autor Robert R. Kaufman is a professor of political science at Rutgers University. Joan M. Nelson is a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and a scholar in residence at the School of International Service at American University. Klappentext Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Crucial Needs, Weak Incentives studies the politics of efforts to reform education and health services in Latin America in the 1990s. Both sectors were common targets of reform--education because of its economic importance, health care because of needs to reduce great inequities of access and opportunities to increase domestic savings presented by reforms. Both sectors also have large numbers of unionized public employees, whose presence affects patronage as well as political power. The book presents case studies that offer a wealth of new information not previously accessible to the English-speaking academic and policy community. For health care, these cover Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Brazil, Costa Rica, and Peru; for eductaion, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Brazil, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. Four chapters by the editors set out for each sector the goals, structure, and outcomes of reform efforts. Contributors are Marta Arretche, Josefina Bruni Celli, Mary A. Clark, Javier Corrales, Sonia M. Draibe, Christina Ewig, Alec Ian Gershberg, Alejandra Gonzalez Rossetti, Merilee S. Grindle, Peter Lloyd-Sherlock, Pamela S. Lowden, and Patricia Ramirez. Zusammenfassung Lowden, and Patricia Ramirez.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Robert R. (EDT)/ Nelson Kaufman, Robert R. Nelson Kaufman, Joanm Nelson
• Mitarbeit: Robert R Kaufman (Herausgeber), Robert R. Kaufman (Herausgeber), Kaufman Robert R. (Herausgeber), Joan M Nelson (Herausgeber), Joan M. Nelson (Herausgeber), Nelson Joan M. (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 11.01.2005
• EAN: 9780801880490
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-8049-0
• Seiten: 560
• Abmessung: 159 mm x 229 mm x 44 mm
• Serien: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Woodrow Wilson Center Press
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Medizin > Allgemeines; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; Latin America, EDUCATION / Administration / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, Illness & addiction: social aspects, Organization & management of education, Educational administration and organization, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects