Gender and the Politics of Gradual Change - Social Policy Reform and Innovation in Chile

This book explores recent social policy reforms and innovations in Chile. Focusing on four major reform episodes - health, pensions, childcare, and maternity leave - Silke Staab unveils the complex interplay of factors that have shaped the successes and failures of actors pursuing positive gender change in social policy. She shows that even in highly constrained settings positive gender change is possible, but that its scope and quality are bound to vary in response to sector-specific institutional constraints and opportunities.

List of contents

List of tables.- List of figures.- Preface.- Acknowledgements.- List of acronyms.- Introduction.- Chapter 1: Gender, Politics and Social Policy: A Feminist Institutionalist Perspective.- Chapter 2: (En)gendering Change in a Highly Constrained Setting.- Chapter 3: Health Reform (2002-2004).- Chapter 4: Pension Reform (2008).- Chapter 5: The Expansion of Childcare Services (2006-2010).- Chapter 6: Maternity Leave Reform (2011).- Chapter 7: Gender and the Politics of Gradual Change. Bibliography.- Index.

About the author

Silke Staab is a research specialist at UN Women in New York, USA. She holds a PhD in Politics from the University of Manchester, UK. Her work on gender, politics and social policy has been published in journals like Social Politics, Development and Change, and Third World Quarterly. She is also co-editor of Global Variations in Political and Social Economy of Care (with S. Razavi, 2013).

Summary

This book explores recent social policy reforms and innovations in Chile. Focusing on four major reform episodes — health, pensions, childcare, and maternity leave — Silke Staab unveils the complex interplay of factors that have shaped the successes and failures of actors pursuing positive gender change in social policy. She shows that even in highly constrained settings positive gender change is possible, but that its scope and quality are bound to vary in response to sector-specific institutional constraints and opportunities.

Product details

• Authors: Silke Staab
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2018
• EAN: 9783319816906
• ISBN: 978-3-31-981690-6
• No. of pages: 254
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 15 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 364 g
• Illustrations: XIX, 254 p. 6 illus.
• Series: Gender and Politics; Gender and Politics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; Öffentliche Verwaltung, Amerika, B, Gender Studies, Sociology, Political Science, Gender Studies: Gruppen, Political Science and International Studies, Public Administration, Public Policy, Gender studies, gender groups, Latin America—Politics and government, South & Central America (including Mexico), Latin America, Latin American Politics, American Politics