Latin America: Social and Political Context of Protest Activity

Social Policy in Latin America

This project was conceived more as a collaborative study than as comparative research in the strict sense. The emphasis was on national studies, not on comparison among countries. Given the exploratory nature of the research, each national study had great freedom to define, conceptually and empirically, the "field" of social policy, thus acknowledging the complexity and ubiquity of the concept ...

Social Investment in Latin America

Social policy and health policy in Latin America: a field of political struggle.

Correspondence A. C. Laurell Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Xochimilco. Callejón de Chilpa 23-9, Col. La Concepción, Coyoacán, DF 04000, México. [email protected] Social policy and health policy are integral parts of society’s projects, but their place in societies differs. Rightist or neoliberal governments view such policies as an area they cannot overlook without losing legitimacy, a...

The Political Sustainability of Internationalization in Latin America and Europe

CONTENTS:

And Social Protection in Latin America