Social protection and the market in Latin America :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
the transformation of social security institutions /
First Statement of Responsibility
Sarah M. Brooks.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Cambridge University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2009.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (viii, 378 pages) :
Other Physical Details
illustrations
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-365) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Welfare state transformation: from social protection to the market -- Explaining structural pension reform: theoretical debate and empirical evidence -- The institutional transformation of social security -- Pension reform in Latin America: overview and scope of institutional transformation -- Pension reform in an open economy: negotiating globalization's double bind -- Contesting institutional change in society: where political strategies meet institutional legacies -- Legislative conflict and institutional change: building majorities behind loss-imposing reform -- A new social contract?
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"Social security institutions have been among the most stable postwar social programs around the world. Increasingly, however, these institutions have undergone profound transformation from public riskpooling systems to individual market-based designs. Why has this "privatization" occurred? Why, moreover, do some governments enact more radical pension privatizations than others? This book provides a theoretical and empirical account of when and to what degree governments privatize national old age pension systems. Quantitative crossnational analysis simulates the degree of pension privatization around the world and tests competing hypotheses to explain reform outcomes. In addition, a comparative analysis of pension reforms in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Uruguay evaluates a causal theory of institutional change. The central argument is that pension privatization emerges from political conflict rather than from exogenous pressures. The argument is developed around three dimensions: the double bind of globalization, contingent path-dependent processes, and the legislative politics of loss imposition."--Jacket.
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MIL
Stock Number
200154
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Title
Social protection and the market in Latin America.
International Standard Book Number
0521877679
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Pensions-- Latin America.
Social security-- Latin America.
Pensions.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Social Services & Welfare.