Comparative Public Policy in Latin America

Contents\nAcknowledgments\nPart I. Policy-Making and Policy Processes\n1. Thinking about Politics and Policymaking in Contemporary Latin America\n2. Presidentialism and Policy-making in Latin America: The Case of Mexico\n3. The New Institutionalism and Industrial Policy-making in Chile\n4. Turbulent Times: Structural Reforms, Crisis, and Labour Policy in Argentina, 1990s–2000s\nPart II. Advocacy and Policy Change\n5. Public Policy by Other Means: Playing the Judicial Arena\n6. Federalism, Advocacy Networks, and Sexual Diversity Politics in Brazil\n7. Agenda through Dispute: The Zoilamérica Narváez–Daniel Ortega Controversy\n8. Transnational Policy Networks and Public Security Policy in Argentina and Chile\nPart III. Old and New Directions in Social Policy\n9. The Limits of Anti-Poverty Policy: Citizenship, Accountability, and Semi-clientelism in Mexico’s Oportunidades Program\n10. Gendering Welfare State Regimes in Latin America: Argentina in Comparative Perspective\n11. Social Policy Reform and Continuity under the Bachelet Administration\n12. Public Policy in Latin America: Towards a New Research Agenda\nContributors\nIndex