Jennifer Pribble Bücher

The book explores the segmented nature of social policy advancements in Latin America during the early 21st century, highlighting disparities in access, benefits, and service quality. It emphasizes the differences across various policy sectors, revealing the challenges and inequalities that persist in the region's social development.

This Element lists the factors that explain cross-national and cross-temporal differences in policy effort: policy legacies, unified/divided government, and fiscal space. In settings of crisis, the democratic politics of social policy expansion shift, with traditional factors like ideology and electoral competition playing a less central role.