Jordi Diez, Susan Franceschet

Comparative Public Policy in Latin America

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book promises to become the definitive work on contemporary public policy in Latin America, essential for those who study the area as well as comparative public policy more broadly.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781442610903
• ISBN-10: 1442610905
• Artikelnr.: 29941682

Autorenporträt

Jordi Díez is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Guelph. Susan Franceschet is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Calgary.

Inhaltsangabe

PART I: POLICYMAKING AND POLICY PROCESSES
Chapter 1.
Thinking about Politics and Policymaking in Contemporary Latin America
Susan Franceschet (University of Calgary) and Jordi DÍez (University of
Guelph)
Chapter 2.
Presidentialism and Policymaking: The Case of Mexico
Jordi DÍez
Chapter 3.
The New Institutionalism and Industrial Policymaking in Chile
Judith Teichman (University of Toronto)
Chapter 4.
Turbulent Times: Structural Reforms, Crisis, and Labour Policy in Argentina
Viviana Patroni (York University) and Ruth Felder (University of Buenos
Aires)
PART II: ADVOCACY AND POLICY CHANGE
Chapter 5.
Public Policy by Other Means: Playing the Judicial Arena
Catalina Smulovitz (Pennsylvania State University)
Chapter 6.
Federalism, Advocacy Networks, and Sexual Diversity Politics in Brazil.
Juan Marsiaj (University of Toronto)
Chapter 7.
Agenda Through Dispute: The Case of the ZoilamÉrica NarvÁez – Daniel Ortega
Controversy
Delphine Lacombe (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales)
Chapter 8.
Transnational Policy Networks and Public Security Policy in Argentina and
Chile
Mary Rose Kubal (St. Bonaventure University)
PART III: OLD AND NEW DIRECTIONS IN SOCIAL POLICY
Chapter 9.
The Limits of Anti-Poverty Policy: Citizenship, Accountability, and
Neo-Clientelism in Mexico’s Oportunidades Program
Lucy Luccisano (Wilfrid Laurier University) and Laura Macdonald (Carleton
University)
Chapter 10.
Gendering Welfare State Regimes in Latin America: Argentina in Comparative
Perspective
DÉbora Lopreite (Carleton University)
Chapter 11.
Social Policy Reform and Continuity under the Bachelet Administration
Rossana Castliglioni (Universidad Diego Portales)
Chapter 12.
Comparing Public Policy in Latin America: Toward a Research Agenda
Jordi DÍez and Susan Franceschet