Welfare and Social Protection in Contemporary Latin America

Latin America is a fascinating region for the study of social policy: it combines past inequalities with a recent expansion, struggles with segmented social programs and presents diverse policy outcomes. The contributors from this book-a combination of renowned experts and exciting early career scholars from different parts of the world-offer many examples of the region's richness. After reading the book, you will understand better how difficult it is to build more equitable social programs, but also how urgent it is in today's world. -- Diego Sanchez Ancochea, Professor of the Political Economy of Development, University of Oxford, UK This edited collection brings together a group of young and established academics in the field of Latin American social policy to explore recent advances in the welfare regimes and the national and global actors shaping social protection systems. The case studies and comparative analyses in this book expand our knowledge of welfare systems in the Global South. -- Luis Moreno, Research Professor, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain We needed a volume that, in a comprehensive and rigorous way, investigated the study of welfare regimes and social policies in Latin America. This work successfully satisfies this need by offering a comparative perspective and integrated view of the main debates and challenges of the social dimension of the State. -- Gemma Ubasart-Gonzalez, Professor of Political Science and Vice-dean of the Faculty of Law, Universitat de Girona, Spain Bringing new research and analytic perspectives, Welfare and Social Protection in Contemporary Latin America engages key debates over the history, economics and politics of Latin America's welfare systems, and proposes new ways of classifying and comparing them. A wide-ranging interdisciplinary collection of quality contributions makes this book