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,...

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Beteilige Person:	Niedzwiecki, Sara ca. 20./21. Jh (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	Englisch
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2018
Schlagwörter:	Central-local government relations / Brazil Central-local government relations / Latin America Gemeindeverwaltung Bundespolitik Regionalverwaltung Mehrebenen-Verflechtung Sozialpolitik Dezentralisation Brazil / Social policy Latin America / Social policy Argentinien Brasilien
Links:	https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108588225 https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108588225 https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108588225
Zusammenfassung:	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
Beschreibung:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 Aug 2018) Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Acronyms -- Social policies and politics in decentralized countries -- Ccts, health policies, and why they matter -- Subnational variation in social policy implementation -- The argument in brief -- Alternative explanations and contributions to the literature -- Methodology, research design, and selection of cases -- Book overview -- Implementing social policies: attribution of responsibility, political -- Alignments, policy legacies, and territorial infrastructure -- Theoretical framework -- Attribution of responsibility or "whom should i thank?" -- Political alignments -- Policy legacies -- Territorial infrastructure -- The indirect role of subnational regime type -- Conclusions -- Mixed-methods and multilevel research design -- Social policy implementation: definition and measurement of the dependent -- Variable -- Mixed-methods research design -- Multilevel case selection strategy -- Conclusions -- Appendix chapter 3 -- Subnational statistical analysis -- Variables and operationalization -- Statistical techniques and robustness tests -- Results - determinants of social policy implementation -- Conclusions -- Appendix chapter 4 -- Conditional cash transfers in argentina and brazil -- Asignacion universal por hijo and its clear attribution of responsibility -- Bolsa familia and its changes in attribution of responsibility -- Conclusions -- Healthcare policies in argentina and brazil -- Estrategia saude da familia in brazil -- Plan nacer in argentina -- Conclusions -- Social policy implementation: looking back and forward -- Summary of findings and policy implications -- Beyond argentina and brazil -- Issues for future research -- References -- Interviews
Umfang:	1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 256 Seiten)
ISBN:	9781108588225
DOI:	10.1017/9781108588225