Uneven Social Policies - The Politics of Subnational Variation in Latin America

Social policies can transform the lives of the poor, yet subnational politics and state capacity often inhibit their success.

List of contents

1. Social policies and politics in decentralized countries; 2. Implementing social policies: attribution of responsibility, political alignments, policy legacies, and territorial infrastructure; 3. Mixed methods and multilevel research design; 4. Subnational statistical analysis; 5. Conditional cash transfers in Argentina and Brazil; 6. Healthcare policies in Argentina and Brazil; 7. Social policy implementation: looking back and forward.

About the author

Sara Niedzwiecki is Assistant Professor of Politics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research on the politics of social policy and on the territorial structure of government has been published in Comparative Political Studies, Latin American Politics and Society, Studies in Comparative International Development, Electoral Studies, International Political Science Review, and elsewhere. She is co-author of Measuring Regional Authority: A Postfunctionalist Theory of Governance (2016).

Product details

• Authors: Sara Niedzwiecki, Sara (University of California Niedzwiecki, Niedzwiecki Sara
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9781108472043
• ISBN: 978-1-108-47204-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Ethnic Studies, Latin America, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, Comparative Politics, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, Hispanic & Latino Studies