Buscar
Mostrando ítems 1-10 de 17
The Quest for Universal Social Policy in the South: Actors, Ideas and Architectures
(2016)
Universal social policies have the power to reduce inequality and create more cohesive societies. How can countries in the South deliver universalism? This book answers this question through a comparative analysis of Costa ...
La construcción de universalismo y sus contradicciones: lecciones de los servicios de salud en Costa Rica, 1940-2011
Building universalism: Lessons from Costa Rica´s health services, 1940-2011
(2013)
Con frecuencia la construcción del universalismo se asimila pragmáticamente a coberturas masivas –aunque los beneficios sean segmentados—o al modelo nórdico basado en impuestos generales y servicios generosos para todos ...
Good Jobs and Social Services: How Costa Rica achieved the elusive double incorporation
(2013)
Few countries have achieved social development, which requires simultaneously securing market and social incorporation (good jobs and access to social services). This book reviews Costa Rica's experience as one of the few ...
Incorporation and Regionalism in Latin America
(2014)
The events and processes that have taken place in the last decade in South America have given way to one of the most interesting regional phenomena under a global crisis and within a changing world order. From the traditional ...
The road to universal social protection: how Costa Rica informs theory
(2012-03)
How are universal social programs built in countries on the periphery, where resources are more limited and initial inequalities higher than any ever seen in OECD countries? Historically it has been very difficult, and ...
Should Policy Aim at Having All People on the Same Boat? The Definition, Relevance and Challenges of Universalism in Latin America
(2014)
In recent years, attention to universal social policy has intensified in Latin America
and other parts of the periphery. Definitions of universal social policy have traditionally
varied between a minimalist approach ...
Filling the missing link between universalism and democracy: the case of Costa Rica
(2014)
This article explores a missing link in the recent literature on the formation of social policies: that between democracy and universalism, one desirable yet elusive feature of these policies. We base our argument on a ...
Cómo construir universalismo y cómo entender sus contradicciones: lecciones del caso costarricense, 1940-2018
(2019)
La publicación se estructuró en tres capítulos. En el primero de ellos, se abordan diversas perspectivas del Modelo Social Europeo pasando desde premisas ideologías y aspectos relevantes de su surgimiento hasta la actualidad ...