Uneven Social Policies

The Politics of Subnational Variation in Latin America

AvSara Niedzwiecki

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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Social policies can transform the lives of the poor and marginalized, yet inequitable implementation often limits their access. Uneven Social Policies shifts the focus of welfare state analysis away from policy design and toward policy implementation. By examining variation in political motivations, state capacity, and policy legacies, it explains why some policies are implemented more effectively than others, why some deliver votes to incumbent governments while others do not, and why regionally elected executives block the implementation of some but not all national policies. Niedzwiecki explores this variation across provinces and municipalities by combining case studies with statistical analysis of conditional cash transfers and health policies in two decentralized countries, Argentina and Brazil. The analysis draws on original data gathered during fifteen months of field research that included more than 230 interviews with politicians and 140 with policy recipients.

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Utgivningsdatum:2020-06-18
Mått:230 x 150 x 15 mm
Vikt:420 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:276
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781108454896

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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).

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'Two giant federal states - Argentina and Brazil - legislated national programs for conditional cash transfers and primary health care benefits recently. But why are they implemented in such radically uneven ways? This book provides a surprising, complex set of answers and shows the crucial importance of 'credit claiming' in the subnational space.' Stephan Leibfried, Universität Bremen, Germany

Innehållsförteckning

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.