Social Policy of Our Time? : An Inquiry into Evidence, Assumptions, and Diffusion of Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin America
Författare
Summary, in English
The inquiries into existing evidence reveal that CCTs’ proven impact pertains exclusively to short-term effects whereas their alleged long-term capabilities lack empirical foundations. Such capabilities are further challenged since they turn out to rest on some rather dubious theoretical assumptions. Furthermore, this dissertation finds that CCTs’ diffusion throughout Latin America could be explained by a historical convergence between various domestic and foreign factors, enabled by particularly salient programme characteristics.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2014
Språk
Engelska
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Lund Dissertations in Sociology
Volym
106
Dokumenttyp
Doktorsavhandling
Förlag
Lund University
Ämne
- Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)
Nyckelord
- Social policy
- conditional cash transfers
- policy diffusion
- poverty
- human capital
- Latin America
- Uruguay
- Guatemala
Status
Published
Projekt
- Johan Sandberg: ”Conditional Cash Transfers in Social Policy Reform & Pursuit of Millennium Development Goals”, finansiär: SIDA/Sarec.
Forskningsgrupp
- Sustainability and Development Studies
- Välfärd, Socialförsäkring och Arbetsliv
Handledare
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISBN: 91-7267-365-6
Försvarsdatum
10 april 2014
Försvarstid
09:00
Försvarsplats
Kulturens hörsal, Tegnérsplatsen, Lund
Opponent
- Alejandro Portes (Professor)