Exclusion and engagement : social policy in Latin America / edited by Christopher Abel and Colin M. Lewis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Abel, Christopher.

Lewis, Colin M.

University of London. Institute of Latin American Studies.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public welfare--Latin America.

Public welfare.

Latin America--Social policy.

Latin America.

Social policy.

Latin America--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 503 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London : University of London, Institute of Latin American Studies, [2002]

Summary:

This collection offers a reappraisal of social policy in response to the scale of the challenges confronting Latin America. Divided into four sections ('Concepts, Models and Practice'; 'Health and Social Security'; 'Education'; 'Household and Community'), the book explores the functions of social policy and the prospects of it performing a new and more dynamic role. The contributors place contemporary social policy in historical perspective, study the connection between growth and welfare and consider the efficacy of the state in the social sphere from both macro and micro perspectives. Underpinning the collection are issues relating to the question of the social contract between state and citizen and how the exercise of citizenship connects society and state.

Contents:

Part A Concepts, Models and Practice

Chapter 1 Exclusion and Engagement: a Diagnosis of Social Policy in Latin America in the Long Run / Christopher Abel, Colin M. Lewis 3

Chapter 2 Social Policy Delivery: the New Economic Model and the Reform of the State / Pascual Gerstenfeld 54

Chapter 3 Debates on the Effects of Macroeconomic Policy on Poverty / Miguel Urrutia 72

Chapter 4 Despite the Odds: the Political Economy of Social Sector Reform in Latin America / Merilee S. Grindle 83

Chapter 5 Citizenship, Social Policy and Population Change / Bryan R. Roberts 111

Chapter 6 Some Conceptual and Substantive Limitations of Contemporary Western (Global) Discourses of Rights and Social Justice / John Gledhill 131

Part B Health and Social Security

Chapter 7 Globalisation, Equity and Health in Latin America / Antonio Ugalde, Nuria Homedes, Anthony Zwi 151

Chapter 8 Health, Equity and Social Exclusion in Argentina and Mexico / Peter Lloyd-Sherlock 172

Chapter 9 Intergenerational Transfers in Income, Health and Social Security: the Experiences of Brazil, Mexico and Colombia / Maria Cristina Gomes de Conceicao 189

Chapter 10 Ideology and the New Social Security in the Argentine / Ruben M. Lo Vuolo 208

Chapter 11 Gender Relations and Social Security in Southern Brazil / Anita Brumer 224

Part C Education

Chapter 12 Ideology and Education: Equity and Efficiency / Marcial Boo 245

Chapter 13 Education Reform in Latin America: Decentralisation or Restructuring / Andrew Nickson 266

Chapter 14 Paradoxes of Chilean Education Reform, 1989-2000 / Ernesto Schiefelbein, Paulina Schiefelbein 285

Part D Household and Community

Chapter 15 Housing Policy and Legal Entitlements: Survival Strategies of the Urban Poor / Alan Gilbert 303

Chapter 16 Cuba: the Retreat from Entitlement? / Claes Brundenius 331

Chapter 17 Whose Crisis?: Public and Popular Reactions to Family Change in Costa Rica / Sylvia Chant 349

Chapter 18 Rural Poverty and Policy: Mexico and Colombia Compared / Alicia Puyana 378.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [411]-503) and index.

ISBN:

1900039508

OCLC:

49834516