The quest for universal social policy in the south : actors, ideas and architectures / Juliana Martínez Franzoni, Diego Sánchez-Ancochea.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martínez Franzoni, Juliana, author.

Sánchez-Ancochea, Diego, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social policy.

Developing countries--Social policy--Case studies.

Developing countries.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xvii, 256 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016.

Summary:

"This volume examines the concept of global governance and how it emerges across issues and through time. It argues that global social policies have the power to contribute to reducing inequality in the South, and that they can also help create more integrated societies and cross-class coalitions between the poor and the middle class, as well as promoting universalism. How can policymakers move in the right direction? The authors combine a comparative analysis of the cases of Costa Rica, Mauritius, South Korea and Uruguay, and a detailed historical account of the Costa Rican experience, to address this issue. They highlight the role of policy architectures, which are the combination of instruments that dictate benefits available to people. This book will be of interest to advanced students and scholars of global governance and social policy"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I. Universalism in the South

Introduction

Universalism in the South: definition and relevance

Part II. A Comparative Study of Policy Architecture

Policy architectures and universal outputs today

The long-term influence of policy architectures

Part III. Building Universalism in Costa Rica

The foundations of the policy architecture in the 1940s

Moving further towards unification in the 1970s

Contradictory moves under market pressures since the 1980s

Part IV. Conclusions

Actors and ideas in comparative perspective

The quest for universalism: implications for contemporary policymaking.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781107125414

1107125413

OCLC:

952389160