Crafting Policies to End Poverty in Latin America - The Quiet Transformation

This book provides a theory and evidence explaining the initial decision of governments to adopt a conditional cash transfer program.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. The universe of cash transfer programs; 3. The politics of fighting poverty; 4. Explaining policy adoption and design; 5. Explaining policy outcomes; 6. Conditional cash transfers and clientelism; 7. The electoral bonus of conditional cash transfers; 8. Conclusions.

About the author

Ana Lorena De La O is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Yale University, Connecticut, where she is affiliated with the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, and the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. Her research relates to the political economy of poverty alleviation, clientelism, and the provision of public goods. Her work has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Studies, the Quarterly Journal of Political Science, and the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences. She earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2007.

Summary

This book provides a theory and evidence to explain the initial decision of governments to adopt a conditional cash transfer program (the most prominent type of anti-poverty program currently in operation in Latin America), and whether such programs are insulated from political manipulations or not.

Product details

• Authors: Ana Lorena de la O, Ana Lorena (Yale University De La O, De La O Ana Lorena, Ana Lorena de la O.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2018
• EAN: 9781107461086
• ISBN: 978-1-107-46108-6
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Latin America, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, International Relations, Poverty & unemployment, Political Economy, Comparative Politics, Social welfare and social services, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, Central / national / federal government policies, Poverty and precarity