Latin American Social Policy Developments in the Twenty-First Century

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxii

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2. The Latin American Social Protection Systems in Action: Triggers and Outcomes of Reforms at the Start of the Twenty-First Century

   • Eloísa del Pino, Natália Sátyro, Carmen Midaglia

   Pages 1-29

3. Durability and Change in Latin American Welfare Regimes

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31

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   2. Stratified Universalistic Regimes in the Twenty-First Century: Widening and Compounding Inequalities in Welfare and Social Structure in Argentina, Uruguay, Chile and Costa Rica

      • Gala Diaz Langou

      Pages 33-59

   3. Actors and Social Reforms in Five Dual Welfare Regimes in Latin America: Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Panama and Venezuela

      • Carlos Barba Solano, Enrique Valencia Lomelí

      Pages 61-100

   4. Reviewing Exclusionary Welfare Regimes: Andean Countries (Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru)

      • Analía Minteguiaga, Gemma Ubasart-González

      Pages 101-133

   5. How ‘Liberal’ Are Latin American Welfare Regimes?

      • Armando Barrientos, Martin Powell

      Pages 135-160

4. Explaining Social Policy Change and Its Consequences in Latin America

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 161-161

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   2. Social Security and Pension Systems: The Deep Stratification of Latin American Societies

      • Gibrán Cruz-Martínez, Luis Vargas Faulbaum, Ricardo Velázquez Leyer

      Pages 163-194

   3. Health Care Reform in Latin America: Not All Roads Lead to Rome

      • Guillermo Fuentes, Fabricio Carneiro, Martín Freigedo

      Pages 195-224

   4. Social Assistance: Conditional Cash Transfers—A Gateway into Social Protection Systems

      • Simone Cecchini

      Pages 225-254

   5. Beyond States and Markets: Families and Family Regimes in Latin America

      • Merike Blofield, Fernando Filgueira, Cecilia Giambruno, Juliana Martínez Franzoni

      Pages 255-285

   6. Family Policies in Latin American Countries: Re-enforcing Familialism

      • Natália Sátyro, Carmen Midaglia

      Pages 287-314

5. The end of an era?

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 315-315

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   2. The Paradigmatic Radical Reform in Brazil’s Social Policies: The Impact of the Temer Administration

      • Natália Sátyro

      Pages 317-340

6. Back Matter

   Pages 341-349

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This book explores the scope of reforms and changes in the social protection systems in Latin America that have started at the beginning of the 21st century. It describes how and to what extent changes in social protection systems and social policies have occurred in the region in recent decades. Taking a comparative approach, the volume identifies the triggers for the transformations and how such pressures are received by the welfare regime, or a specific policy sector, to finally yield a given type of reform. The analysis is characterized by the presence of certain factors that explain the development of social protection systems in Latin America, such as economic growth, the consolidation of democratic political regimes, and the region’s Left Turns. The book also examines to what extent common challenges and processes induced by international institutions have led to convergence among countries or welfare regimes, or whether each maintains its own identity.

• Brazil
• Mexico
• Latin American societies
• Latin America
• Latin American Social Policy Developments
• development studies
• Latin American politics
• social protection systems in Latin America

• Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

  Natália Sátyro

• Instituto de Políticas y Bienes Públicos, Madrid, Spain

  Eloísa del Pino

• Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay

  Carmen Midaglia

Natália Sátyro is Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political Science at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. She is the coordinator of ALACIP’s Public Policy Research Group (GIPP) since 2015 and co-convenor of IPSA’s Research Committee (RC39) on Welfare State and Developing Societies, since 2014.

Eloisa del Pino is Senior Researcher in the Institute of Public Goods and Policies (IPP) at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). She is conducting the GoWPER Project 2018–2020 Restructuring the Welfare Governance CSO2017-85598-R PN I+D.

Carmen Midaglia is Professor of Political Science at the Universidad de la República, Uruguay. She is Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Co-Coordinator of the Working Group on Poverty and Social Policies of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences.

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