Welfare and Party Politics in Latin America

Informationen zum Autor Jennifer Pribble is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Richmond. She has had articles published in the American Sociological Review, Comparative Politics, the Latin American Research Review, and Studies in Comparative International Development. She was awarded the Lynda Dykstra Award for the best dissertation in the social sciences by the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 2009. Klappentext Explores the variation in welfare and other social assistance policies in Latin America. Zusammenfassung Pribble explores the variation in welfare and other social assistance policies in Argentina! Chile! Uruguay and Venezuela! finding that the design of previous policies! the intensity of electoral competition and the character of political parties all influence the nature of contemporary social policy reform in Latin America. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments; Acronyms; 1. From special privilege to social rights: universalism in social policy; 2. Creating universalistic social policy: the role of policy legacies, electoral competition, and party character; 3. Healthcare reform in Chile and Uruguay; 4. Social assistance reform in Chile and Uruguay; 5. Education reform in Chile and Uruguay; 6. Party character in Chile and Uruguay; 7. Slow progress toward universalism: Argentina and Venezuela in comparative perspective; 8. Latin America's left parties and the politics of poverty and inequality; References; List of interviews; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer Pribble, Jennifer (University of Richmond Pribble, Pribble Jennifer
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.04.2013
• EAN: 9781107030220
• ISBN: 978-1-107-03022-0
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Chile, Latin America, Argentina, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, Comparative Politics, Social welfare and social services, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, Central / national / federal government policies, Central government policies, Welfare & benefit systems