浪花直播

Explore more than 27,000 insights and analysis, 160 experts, and hundreds of events each year.

Trending topics

  • Book

Crucial Needs, Weak Incentives: Social Sector Reform, Democratization, and Globalization in Latin America

Posted date/time:
Price: $55.00 hardcover; $24.95 paper
Publisher
Woodrow 浪花直播 Center Press with Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004
ISBN
978-0-8018-8049-1 hardcover; 978-0-8018-8082-3 paper
Crucial Needs, Weak Incentives: Social Sector Reform, Democratization, and Globalization in Latin America, edited by Robert R. Kaufman and Joan M. Nelson

  • Crucial Needs, Weak Incentives studies the politics of efforts to reform education and health services in Latin America in the 1990s. Both sectors were common targets of reform鈥攅ducation because of its economic importance, health care because of needs to reduce great inequities of access and opportunities to increase domestic savings presented by reforms. Both sectors also have large numbers of unionized public employees, whose presence affects patronage as well as political power.

    The book presents case studies that offer a wealth of new information not previously accessible to the English-speaking academic and policy community. For health care, these cover Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Brazil, Costa Rica, and Peru; for education, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Brazil, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. Four chapters by the editors set out for each sector the goals, structure, and outcomes of reform efforts.

    Contributors are Marta Arretche, Josefina Bruni Celli, Mary A. Clark, Javier Corrales, S么nia M. Draibe, Christina Ewig, Alec Ian Gershberg, Alejandra Gonz谩lez Rossetti, Merilee S. Grindle, Peter Lloyd-Sherlock, Pamela S. Lowden, and Patricia Ram铆rez.

    Robert R. Kaufman is a professor of political science at Rutgers University. Joan M. Nelson is a senior scholar at the Woodrow 浪花直播 International Center for Scholars and a scholar in residence at the School of International Service at American University.

Crucial Needs, Weak Incentives studies the politics of efforts to reform education and health services in Latin America in the 1990s. Both sectors were common targets of reform鈥攅ducation because of its economic importance, health care because of needs to reduce great inequities of access and opportunities to increase domestic savings presented by reforms. Both sectors also have large numbers of unionized public employees, whose presence affects patronage as well as political power.

The book presents case studies that offer a wealth of new information not previously accessible to the English-speaking academic and policy community. For health care, these cover Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Brazil, Costa Rica, and Peru; for education, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Brazil, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. Four chapters by the editors set out for each sector the goals, structure, and outcomes of reform efforts.

Contributors are Marta Arretche, Josefina Bruni Celli, Mary A. Clark, Javier Corrales, S么nia M. Draibe, Christina Ewig, Alec Ian Gershberg, Alejandra Gonz谩lez Rossetti, Merilee S. Grindle, Peter Lloyd-Sherlock, Pamela S. Lowden, and Patricia Ram铆rez.

Robert R. Kaufman is a professor of political science at Rutgers University. Joan M. Nelson is a senior scholar at the Woodrow 浪花直播 International Center for Scholars and a scholar in residence at the School of International Service at American University.

Explore More

Browse Insights & Analysis
Browse Insights & Analysis