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The Political Economy of Taxation in Latin America
Offers a comprehensive, region-wide analysis of the politics of taxation in Latin America to make reforms politically palatable and sustainable.
Big Business and Dictatorships in Latin America
This edited volume studies the relationship between big business and the Latin American dictatorial regimes during the Cold War. The first section provides a general background about the contemporary history of business corporations and dictatorships in the twentieth century at the international level. The second section comprises chapters that analyze five national cases (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and Peru), as well as a comparative analysis of the banking sector in the Southern Cone (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Uruguay). The third section presents six case studies of large companies in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Central America. This book is crucial reading because it provides the first comprehensive analysis of a key yet understudied topic in Cold War history in Latin America.
The World Politics of Social Investment: Volume I
The World Politics of Social Investment consists of two companion volumes The World Politics of Social Investment: Volume I Welfare States in the Knowledge Economy Volume I introduces social investment and develops a theory on the political and socio-economic conditions for the development of social investment policies around the globe, studies the impact of the main explanatory factors on the empirical variety of social investment reforms and proposes a new typology of different welfare reform strategies. The World Politics of Social Investment: Volume II The Politics of Varying Social Investment Strategies Volume II traces the development of social investment reforms across the regions of Nordic, Continental, and Southern Europe; Central and Eastern Europe; North and Latin America; and North East Asia. Book jacket.
The World Politics of Social Investment: Volume II
The World Politics of Social Investment consists of two companion volumes The World Politics of Social Investment: Volume I Welfare States in the Knowledge Economy Volume I introduces social investment and develops a theory on the political and socio-economic conditions for the development of social investment policies around the globe, studies the impact of the main explanatory factors on the empirical variety of social investment reforms and proposes a new typology of different welfare reform strategies. The world Politics of Social Investment: Volume II The Politics of Varying Social Investment Strategies Volume II traces the development of social investment reforms across the regions of Nordic, Continental, and Southern Europe; Control and Eastern Europe: North and Latin America; and North East Asia. Book jacket.
International Handbook of Urban Education
The universality of the problematics with urban education, together with the importance of understanding the context of improvement interventions, brings into sharp focus the importance of an undertaking like the International Handbook of Urban Education. An important focus of this book is the interrogation of both the social and political factors that lead to different problem posing and subsequent solutions within each region.
The Political Economy of Elites in Latin America
Recent years have seen renewed interest in elites around the world, and their interconnection with power, privilege, social stratification, and social change. The contributors to this edited volume explore the many facets of the role of elites in the political economy of Latin America: their position within society, their impact upon the economy, and their influence within governing institutions. The book demonstrates that in Latin America, as in many other parts of the world, structural change and movements toward more just, inclusive, and sustainable societies seem impossible without the involvement of elites at some level. This raises important questions: Under what conditions do elites p...
Economic Elites, Political Parties and the Electoral Arena
This book delves into the intricate dynamics between economic elites and the political party system in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, particularly during their democratization phases in the twentieth century. It introduces a novel framework for comprehending the diverse political strategies adopted by these countries’ economic elites during this critical period. The central premise of this book is that the interplay between the cohesion of economic elites and the mobilization of popular sectors at specific historical junctures profoundly influences the nature of elite political involvement. While existing literature has extensively discussed the strategies employed by economic elites to sa...
Democracy and the Left
Although inequality in Latin America ranks among the worst in the world, it has notably declined over the last decade, offset by improvements in health care and education, enhanced programs for social assistance, and increases in the minimum wage. In Democracy and the Left, Evelyne Huber and John D. Stephens argue that the resurgence of democracy in Latin America is key to this change. In addition to directly affecting public policy, democratic institutions enable left-leaning political parties to emerge, significantly influencing the allocation of social spending on poverty and inequality. But while democracy is an important determinant of redistributive change, it is by no means the only f...
Routledge Handbook of Latin American Politics
The Routeldge Handbook of Latin American Politics brings together the leading figures in the study of Latin America to present extensive empirical coverage and a cutting-edge examination of the central areas of inquiry in the region.
The Politics of Social Protection in Eastern and Southern Africa
Why have so many countries in Africa adopted social protection programmes over the past decade? This book challenges the common assumption that this phenomenon has been entirely driven by international development agencies, instead focusing on the critical role of political dynamics within specific African countries.
