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Informationen zum Autor Juliana Martínez Franzoni is Associate Professor at the University of Costa Rica (Institute for Social Research), and is editor of ZED/CROP's series on global poverty. Her recent publications include Good Jobs and Social Services (2012) and Domesticar la Incertidumbre en America Latina (2008). She has published in many journals, including Development and Change, Global Social Policy, and Social Politics. Diego Sánchez-Ancochea is upcoming Director of the Latin American Centre, University of Oxford, as well as Associate Professor in the Political Economy of Latin America and a Fellow of St Antony's College. His recent publications include Good Jobs and Social Services (2013), Handbook of Central American Governance (2013), The Political Economy of the Budget in the Americas (2009) and The Political Economy of Hemispheric Integration in the Americas (2009). Klappentext This volume examines the concept of global social policy architectures and its emergence across issues and through time.This volume examines the concept of universal social policies and how it emerges across issues and through time. It builds a multidisciplinary theory based on a comparative case study to explain the ways in which optimum social policies can be developed, as well as their main political and policy determinants. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Universalism in the South: 1. Introduction; 2. Universalism in the South: definition and relevance; Part II. A Comparative Study of Policy Architecture: 3. Policy architectures and universal outputs today; 4. The long-term influence of policy architectures; Part III. Building Universalism in Costa Rica: 5. The foundations of the policy architecture in the 1940s; 6. Moving further towards unification in the 1970s; 7. Contradictory moves under market pressures since the 1980s; 8. Actors and ideas in comparative perspective; 9. The quest for universalism: implications for contemporary policymaking.
