Social policy dismantling and de-democratization in Brazil : citizenship in danger / Sonia Fleury, editor.
Fleury, Sonia, editor.
2023
JL2431
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Title Social policy dismantling and de-democratization in Brazil : citizenship in danger / Sonia Fleury, editor.
ISBN 9783031351105 (electronic bk.)
303135110X (electronic bk.)
9783031351099
3031351096
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35110-5
Published Cham : Springer, 2023.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (viii, 240 pages) : color illustrations.
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-35110-5 doi
Call Number JL2431
Dewey Decimal Classification 981.067
Summary 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 of social 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.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed August 31, 2023).
Added Author Fleury, Sonia, editor.
Series Societies and political orders in transition, 2511-221X
Available in Other Form Social Policy Dismantling and de-Democratization in Brazil
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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.

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