Uneven Social Policies (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781108454896)

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.

Author: Sara Julieta Niedzwiecki
ISBN-10: 1108454895
ISBN-13: 9781108454896
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/18/2020
Pages: 274
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.62d