Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 541 g
Citizenship in Danger
Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 541 g
Reihe: Societies and Political Orders in Transition
ISBN: 978-3-031-35109-9
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland
This book examines the emergence of authoritarian populist regimes, analyzing Brazil as a case study. The authors explain how the tactics employed by the Bolsonaro administration to dismantle bureaucracy and public policies, especially labour and social policies, find expression in the fiscal austerity measures recently inscribed in the Federal Constitution: a counter-democratic device employed by technical and financial elites to systemically derail the social protection system.
Through this in-depth case study, the book presents new theoretical arguments and concepts that can be useful to understand the dynamics of such new regimes, and discussing similar cases in other contexts. Democratic governments in Brazil, driven by social movements and political actors, have strengthened social protection through a distinctive institutional architecture that combines the strengthening of public bureaucracies, the creation of intergovernmental networks, and the democratic instances ofsocial participation and agreement. The contributions throughout this volume analyze these transformations in different sectors of public policy, such as labour, employment, pensions, food and nutrition security, health, and social assistance. Each contribution discusses the recent trajectory through a political analysis of the main actors and institutions, reform processes and policy changes, and the results achieved. Finally, the existing weaknesses in each of these social protection sectors are identified in the context of the literature on policy dismantling, revealing the strategies used to take advantage of these political and institutional weaknesses.
This book will appeal to students, scholars, and researchers of political science and public policy, interested in a better understanding of de-democratization by social policy dismantling.
Zielgruppe
Research
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Verwaltungswissenschaft, Öffentliche Verwaltung
Weitere Infos & Material
Part 1. Theoretical Approaches to the Welfare State in Latin America.- Chapter 1. The Welfare State: in Search of a Latin-American Theory.- Part 2. Austerity Policies and Economic Constraints.- Chapter 2. The Institutional Construction of Post-1988 Austerity.- Part 3. Employment and Social Security.- Chapter 3. Labor Reforms and the Crisis of Democratic Corporatism.- Chapter 4. The Dismantling of Employment Policies in Brazil: Employability Without Rights.- Chapter 5. Pension System at a Crossroads: Between Frail Solidarity and Financial Appropriation.- Part 4. Networks of Social Policies Under the Aegis of De-democratization.- Chapter 6. The Universal Right to Health in Brazil: From Restricted Expansion to Dismantling.- Chapter 7. The Brazilian System for Food and Nutrition Security: Tensions, Conflicts, and Paradoxes.- Chapter 8. Advancing Toward the Past: the Dismantling of the Unified Social Assistance System.- Chapter 9. Authoritarian Populism, De-democratization and Social Policy Dismantling: Lessons from Brazil.
