Forbearance As Redistribution - The Politics of Informal Welfare in Latin America

Informationen zum Autor Alisha C. Holland is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics at Princeton University, New Jersey. She was a Junior Fellow at the Society of Fellows at Harvard University, Massachusetts. Holland's doctoral dissertation received the Best Dissertation Award from the Urban Politics Section of the American Political Science Association and the Robert Noxon Toppan Award for the best dissertation from the Department of Government at Harvard University. Her research on Latin American and urban politics has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, and Latin American Research Review. Klappentext The book explains why and when laws go unenforced in developing countries. Zusammenfassung The book explains why and when laws go unenforced in developing countries. It argues that the tolerance of street vending and squatting is a form of informal welfare provision and a more effective means to mobilize the poor than conventional state social policies. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. An electoral theory of forbearance; 2. Who votes for forbearance; 3. What enables forbearance: inadequate social policy and squatting; 4. When politicians choose forbearance: core constituencies and street vending; 5. Where forbearance occurs: the role of electoral institutions; 6; Why forbearance continues: path dependencies in the informal welfare state; 7. How forbearance ends: lessons from Turkey.

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• Authors: Alisha Holland, Alisha C Holland, Alisha C. Holland, Alisha C. (Princeton University Holland, Holland Alisha C.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2017
• EAN: 9781107174078
• ISBN: 978-1-107-17407-8
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics; Cambridge Studies in Comparati; Cambridge Studies in Comparati; Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, Constitution: government & the state, Constitution: government and the state