Description
Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of ContentsChapter 1: The Latin American social protection systems in action: triggers and outcomes of reforms at the start of the 21th century
Part I: Durability and Change in Latin American welfare regimes
Chapter 2: Stratified universalistic regimes in the 21st century: Widening and compounding inequalities in welfare and social structure in Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, and Costa Rica
Chapter 3: Actors and Social Reforms in Five Dual Welfare Regimes in Latin America: Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Panama and Venezuela
Chapter 4: Reviewing exclusionary welfare regimes: Andean countries (Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru)
Chapter 5: How 'liberal' are Latin American welfare regimes?
Part II: Explaining social policy change and its consequences in Latin America
Chapter 6: Social security and pensions systems: the deep stratification of Latin American societies
Chapter 7: Health care reform in Latin America: not all roads lead to Rome
Chapter 8: Social Assistance: Conditional Cash Transfers – a gateway into social protection systems
Chapter 9: Beyond States and Markets: families and Family Regimes in Latin America
Chapter 10: Family policies in Latin American re-enforcing familialism
Part III: The end of an era?
Chapter 11: The paradigmatic radical reform in Brazil`s social policies: the impact of the Temer Administration
