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Do large-scale and unexpected events, such as natural disasters, affect elections? This article studies the political dimension of the 19-S earthquake that hit Mexico City in 2017, a few months before the 2018 elections. Using fine-grained geospatial data, the results show that candidates from the city-level incumbent Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD) had a small increase in vote share in 2018 compared to the previous election in precincts more exposed to damaged caused by the earthquake (in terms of both distance-based and per capita measures), accounting for the seismic profile and socioeconomic characteristics of the neighborhood. The article shows that the implementation of disaster-recovery policy explains part of this relationship. Moreover, voters were as electorally responsive to a future risk reduction strategy as to a reconstruction credit.

(Series Information) European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2022 7(3), 1405-1429 | Article | (Table of Contents) I. Introduction. - II. Different levels of social mainstreaming and EU law. - II.1. The relationship be-tween the economic and social at EU level. - II.2. Art. 9 TFEU. - III. A story of hope (I): Art. 9 TFEU, EU competition law, and the Four Freedoms. - III.1. The "social exemption" for collective bargaining. - III.2. Social interests as an exception ground to free movement. - IV. A story of hope (II): Art. 9 TFEU and EU legislative harmonisation. - IV.1. The internal market legal bases of inter alia art. 114 TFEU. - IV.2. The importance of art. 153 TFEU in making the EU internal market more socially inclusive. - V. Fears undermining the safeguarding of social interests in the EU single market through art. 9 TFEU. - V.1. Relatively vague and unclear wording of art. 9 TFEU. - V.2. The constitutionalisation of EU (free movement) law and the unclear scope of EU fundamental social rights protection. - V.3. The (some-times) flawed reasoning in the case law on EU free movement law. - V.4. The question of competence, technological innovation and digitalization. - VI. Conclusion. | (Abstract) In this Article, we assess to what extent art. 9 TFEU, which contains the social mainstreaming clause, may be used to shore up the social dimension of the EU Single Market. The story of hope of a more socially inclusive internal market starts with the "porous" EU internal market legal framework itself and ends with art. 153 TFEU and the European Pillar of Social Rights. Yet, there are also fears that, despite the language of social mainstreaming, the EU cannot deliver on the promise of art. 9 TFEU for various reasons, including the limited legislative competences of the EU to pursue social policies. While we mainly want to emphasize the story of hope, we will also look into the fears and how some of these could be addressed.

Since its implementation in 2006, Portugal’s full-time schools programme led to a massive increase of curricular enrichment and family-support activities in public schools throughout the country. The literature review brings together important contributions from previous research and assessments of the full-time school programme, including results of similar programmes in other countries and particularities of the Portuguese case. The methodological design is outlined, describing the research questions as well as the variables and categories under consideration. Drawing on extensive administrative data from all public schools in the country, the analysis focuses on participation rates and their link to school location, socioeconomic context, local providers, and educational achievements. The (moderately) positive correlation between participation rates and educational success arises as a key finding, for which possible explanatory factors are discussed. The article concludes with some implications for policy-making and future research on this topic.

Faced with the precariousness of social policies, which impacts the conditions of the family to exercise its protective function, the judicialization of mental health demands becomes one of the mechanisms used to guarantee rights. In view of this, we aimed to discuss the sharing of responsibilities between the family of the subject in psychological distress and the State, based on the demands of compulsory internment that reach the Brazilian judiciary. This is a documental research in which 23 judgments were analyzed, which were processed between 2001 and 2017, in the second instance of the Paraná State Court of Justice. As results, we highlight that by individualizing and reducing collective demands, the judiciary configures itself as a functional apparatus to the capital in crisis, based on the discourse of legal equality. The primacy of the individual is also evident in the few mentions of families, taken as informants of the condition of the user, their inclusion in the service offered by the network is superficial.

The text will present the complex contexts of the social situation currently prevailing in Poland. Firstly, these are the migration effects of the war on February 24, 2022, when Russia invaded Ukraine. Secondly, it is a crisis related to war refugees (from Iran, Afghanistan, Syria, and various African countries) on the Polish-Belarusian border (since 2021). Both crises are covered in thoroughly different ways by the media, state, and public opinion. In these cases, we are dealing with a situation that does not create a homogenous image of migration and refugees, neither at the level of social assessments nor when it comes to the law or the state support system. To understand the situation, it is necessary to observe the development of non-institutional and grassroots forms of approach to social and humanitarian crises in Polish society, including those led by NGOs. However, the models of assistance used for new groups in crisis in Poland (war refugees) are largely based on the well-known rules of assistance (homelessness). The question is: to what extent are the two crises compatible so that it is possible to use one type of experience (help in homelessness) to organize support for people remaining in another crisis (war refugees)? This is important in the Polish case, although it applied there the system of public social assistance, the authorities use only methods of managing crises and social problems, and not solving them.

En este artículo se desarrolla un análisis de las políticas de mercado de trabajo del gobierno nacional a favor de los desempleados en el periodo 2003-2009, sobre la base de la normativa, los datos presupuestarios y las estadísticas oficiales. En una primera parte, se discute teóricamente el impacto de las ideas políticas del neoliberalismo sobre los paradigmas de la lucha al desempleo en la Argentina de los años 90. En una segunda parte, se investiga la persistencia de esa lógica individualista y del papel residual del Estado en los programas vigentes durante la etapa 2003-2019, un periodo marcado por la informalidad laboral y la creciente volatilidad económica. A partir de un relevamiento de las características, cobertura, montos y presupuesto de los planes de empleo, emerge la fragmentación institucional, la baja prioridad presupuestaria y el insuficiente alcance de la política de mercado de trabajo en Argentina.

In recent decades, affect theory has gained interest in the study of work and subjectivity. Due to its focus on pre-conscious and sensory factors, the study of affect has enabled understanding the production of subjectivity overcoming rational models of subjectivity that (re)produce an ideal of the sovereign neoliberal subject. This article seeks to affectively analyze the labor subjectivity of workers in the Chilean child protection program. We carried out a digital ethnography with six workers of the Servicio Nacional de Menores [National Service for Minors]. One of the interviews conducted was analyzed considering that the particular experience of this interviewee describes a co-constitutive relationship with other subjects of the program. We analyzed the data using the technique of textual-affective and carnal-word analysis. Our findings indicate that these workers' subjectivities are constituted by/in the assemblage of their bodies with other bodies – human and non-human – that are part of the childhood program. In the assemblages with human bodies, the workers are endowed with agency, enabling new ways of inhabiting their daily workspaces. Thus, by studying the production of subjectivity from an affect lens, it is possible to reclaim and recover the voices of the workers in the child protection program by understanding them as a central and fundamental element in the gears from which this social program emerges.

The article analyzes in historical perspective the ways in which Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) in Argentina become agents considered efficient for the management of social policy from the 90's. It focuses on the forms of legitimation that referents -NGO directors and senior officials of the socio-assistance field- display in different periods about the legitimacy granted or denied to NGOs to intervene in the socio-assistance field, the ways in which the relationship with the State is configured and the boundaries of a complex, changing, non-linear link are drawn. This paper uses interviews with directors of organizations and state officials; and the analysis of regulations and institutional documents.

This review article makes the state of the art of early childhood known as a field of knowledge, based on the bibliographic review of a corpus of fifty-three (53) texts published in the last twenty years. Theoretical and disciplinary approaches are presented with which early childhood has been approached, especially in Colombia; as well as trends in epistemological and methodological perspectives. The analysis plan included a linear and cross-sectional review of the information, with which the sources were compared to identify coincidences, gaps, confirmations and extensions. According to the analysis of the conceptual categories: early childhood, notion of the field, initial education, development and comprehensive care, and public policies, the following trends were identified: historical accounts of early childhood; approaches to early childhood from hygienist and economistic positions; academic and institutional approaches to early childhood; projections of the perspectives of gender, ethnicity, territory, and of boys and girls as political subjects, social actors and agents with the capacity to participate and influence.

In this article, we call for greater recognition of friendship as a basic social relation that should play a pivotal role in re-imagining social resilience if it is to be future-proof in the face of social upheaval, such as the current pandemic. Drawing on existing research and early scoping of emergent information about the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, we suggest that friendship is an important component of heterogenic social realities. The specific focus of our discussion is twofold. Firstly, attention is paid to the narrow lens of social policy that privileges particular familial set-ups and living arrangements, and in doing so marginalises groups which are already disenfranchised; secondly, we consider the dangers of nationalism and Eurocentrism as they relate to these issues. We suggest that thinking in terms of friendship can open up new avenues of academic and political imagination, offering strategies with greater potential for building socially resilient communities.

Social policy manages to revalue certain actors in certain socio-historical contexts. In Argentina, during the Alianza Cambiemos, the role of local governments in the implementation of national social programs has been displaced, and that of civil society organizations has been strengthened. In this framework, we analyze the local implementation regime of AT - PRIST from the Asociación Civil Identidad Vecinal. In this sense, we provide a contribution to the studies of the implementation of programs at the local level from social organizations and we construct analytical categories

The economic value of increases in the length of life is estimated for a large set of countries using age-specific data on consumption, leisure earnings, and mortality. Estimates are sensitive to parameters on intertemporal substitution and minimum consumption, and to the interest rate. A scenario of improvement of 1/10000 survival probabilities across life results in Value of Statistical Life (VSL) gains at the beginning of life of around USD $500 for the wealthier countries, $200 for middle-income, and $30 for the poorest. Benchmark income elasticities are in general below 1, except for low-income countries at older ages. The income elasticity of VSL is calculated directly, and not, as in previous literature, calculated for less developed countries based on measurements for wealthier countries.

The article considers the number of women giving birth in Russia in the context of the existing demographic problems caused by the depopulation of the country. The study evaluates the social, economic and medical factors influencing the dynamics of the number of women giving birth in the Russian Federation based on correlation and regression analysis, and also provides a short-term forecast for their further change. The implementation of the increase in the number of women giving birth in Russia is one of the current important sociodemographic tasks for the State; This will improve the demographic situation and will lay the foundations for the formation of a sufficient human resource, which will later form the country's high human capital. According to the results of forecasting the dynamics of the number of women in the work in the short term, it was determined that the downward trend in the number of women in the work will continue, since the negative impact of medical factors will remain unchanged. changes, while economic and social factors will not change.

The high rate of population aging that Cuba has presented has led to the adoption of a policy for attention to the demographic dynamic, based on the guidelines of the economic and social policy of the Party and the Revolution. This policy demands that, within its universal approach, focused attention be given to the different age groups and the particularities of each of them, specifically the elderly. This material refers the attention to the institutionalized older adult in Placetas, the second oldest municipality in Cuba and belonging to Villa Clara, the oldest province in the country. It is framed fundamentally in the Home for the Elderly and in the House of Grandparents, the only institutions of its kind in the municipality that provide direct assistance to the elderly. A characterization of both institutions is carried out: structure according to sex and age, the social and family situation, its main sufferings, the main services that are provided. The main objective is to analyze the relationship between social policy, needs and social services in terms of the powers that local governments have to search for solutions on issues that affect the territory. The main results refer to the articulation of the national, provincial policy, and the adoption of municipal programs to care for the elderly, showing as a limitation the need to encourage actions that take into account the heterogeneity of this population group, both by the ranges of ages, the territorial context, as well as the particular situations that they live. Resumen El elevado índice de envejecimiento poblacional que presenta Cuba ha llevado a la adopción de una política para la atención a la dinámica demográfica, amparada en los Lineamientos de la Política Económica y Social del Partido y la Revolución. Esta política demanda que, dentro de su enfoque universal, se les brinde una atención focalizada a los distintos grupos etarios y sus particularidades, específicamente el adulto mayor. Este material refiere la atención al adulto mayor institucionalizado en el municipio Placetas, el segundo más envejecido de Cuba y perteneciente a Villa Clara, provincia más envejecida del país. Se enmarca fundamentalmente en el Hogar de Ancianos y en la Casa de Abuelos, únicas instituciones de este tipo en el municipio y que brindan atención directa a los adultos mayores. Se caracteriza a la población que se atiende en ambas instituciones: estructura según sexo y edad, la situación social y familiar, sus principales padecimientos, los principales servicios que se brindan. El objetivo fundamental es analizar la relación política social, necesidades y servicios sociales en función de las atribuciones que tienen los gobiernos locales para la búsqueda de soluciones en temáticas que afectan el territorio. Los principales resultados refieren la articulación de la política nacional, provincial, hasta la adopción de programas municipales para la atención a los adultos mayores, mostrándose la necesidad de incentivar acciones que tengan en cuenta la heterogeneidad de ese grupo poblacional, tanto por los rangos de edades, el contexto territorial, así como por las situaciones particulares que viven.

In recent years, the use of normative information—social norms—for promoting pro-environmental behavior has received remarkable attention, showing great potential for psychosocial interventions. This paper makes research on normative information accessible with the aim of translating it into pro-environmental programs and public policy. The concepts of descriptive and prescriptive social norms are reviewed, as well as the main recommendations for their effective use in applied contexts. A number of factors found relevant for effective normative interventions on pro-environmental behavior are discussed: the use of behavioral feedback, the dynamic character of the norms, and personal involvement. Social norms represent an important contribution from environmental psychology to the intervention on environmental problems.

The objective of this article is to analyze the Brazilian National Food and Nutrition Security Policy (PNSAN) and its implementation towards indigenous peoples. To do this, a socio-demographic description of the indigenous peoples of Brazil is made to have a general overview of the characteristics of this population. Likewise, the legal framework, structure, components and concrete actions of the PNSAN are analyzed. The findings indicate that, in the case of indigenous peoples, although there is significant progress in the inclusion of their participation in the processes of the politics, there are still several things to do before they can reach a full adaptation. In broader terms, the ethnic diversity recognized in the PNSAN must include an adequate quantification of the various vulnerable groups that make up Brazilian society, as well as the design of a policy that resolves conflicts in the distribution of land that contributes to stimulating the production of food in indigenous communities

This study examines the parallel consequences of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the food shortage in connection with the disintegration of the Habsburg Empire and the rise of the Social Democrats.It also presents and compares both State and Social Democratics Parties’ reactions in the two different parts of the Empire, the Austrian and the Hungarian. The following questions are at the center: why was the Austrian Social Democratic Party able to increase social base and gain significant political positions in the last phase of the war and why did not it all happen to its Hungarian equivalent? The detailed exploration of these reasons will show through which causes Austrian Social Democracy managed to stop a dictatorship drift in 1918-19, while the Hungarian Left did not.

This article goal is to understand, by bibliographic and documental research and the approach of historical sociology, the changes in the post-authoritarian Brazil of labor and penal institutions under the processes of flexible and global accumulation, on the one hand, and punitive hardening, on the other. In Brazil, historically, the developmentalism, in more or less democratic or authoritarian versions, populist or conservative ways, structured a stratified citizenship. The democratic transition inaugurated a universalist and egalitarian conception of citizenship, whose implementation was limited by both authoritarian tradition and macroeconomic orthodoxy. In this way, Brazil combined inclusivism and punitivism, a latent contradiction that exploded in open conflict with the dissolution of the lulist coalition into the economical and political crises of 2010s years.

This article is an analysis of the social policy of practical activities implemented for seniors in the environment of their local residence. Tarnów was chosen as the local environment, in which seniors are the majority of the population. It discusses the principles of social policy, the resources of the Tarnów local government, activities and initiatives for seniors in Tarnów as well as the objectives and tasks of the Tarnów local government implemented in 2015–2020 The analysis of social policy shows that the local government authorities in Tarnów organized many valuable and good initiatives for the benefit of seniors. This is demonstrated by the cafeteria of activities undertaken by social institutions (state and local government), non-governmental organizations, religious associations (church), and other economic entities (enterprises and business). However, there are some lacunae, especially in the area of care standards.

While COVID-19 affects all ages, there is an unheard side of a vulnerable group of older people across the globe amid the current crisis. This article discusses the condition of senior citizens in the Philippines during the COVID-19 crisis. The review showed that various enabling laws have been enacted to secure the welfare of senior citizens. However, the current crisis revealed issues such as deprivation of income sources, inaccessibility to essential needs, inadequate physical space, and unspoken negative perceptions, which all greatly affect the senior citizens. Thus, to implement the laws and solve the issues, shared efforts should focus to improve social pension payout, guidelines for mobility, different approaches of remote access to essential goods and services, and meaningful internet connectivity in the context of senior citizens.

Los trabajadores sociales somos profesionales comprometidos con la sociedad, con la justicia social, abogamos por los derechos de las personas desventajadas, discriminadas, y nuestro enfoque es brindar un servicio de excelencia a toda la población que impactamos. Por tal razón reconocemos la importancia de la intervención social con niñas y niños diagnosticados con el Trastorno del Espectro Autista y sus familias quienes presentan unas necesidades particulares debido al arduo proceso que enfrentan luego del diagnóstico de autismo. Mediante este trabajo se evidenciará la importancia de nuestras intervenciones con la población indicada, las competencias que nos capacitan para trabajar con los mismos, las leyes que les cobijan, las necesidades que presentan, entre otros aspectos. De igual forma cómo las y los trabajadores sociales podemos impactar positivamente la vida de estos niños y niñas con TEA y sus familias mediante nuestras intervenciones. Parte fundamental es continuar educándonos sobre el tema del autismo para poder acompañar a estas familias en su proceso. Este trabajo presenta la importancia de la intervención social con niñas y niños diagnosticados con el Trastorno del Espectro Autista (TEA) y sus familias. En el mismo se presentará un análisis histórico acerca del Autismo, los valores, principios éticos, dilemas presentes de nuestra profesión y las políticas sociales que impactan a la población. Los trabajadores sociales somos profesionales comprometidos con la sociedad, con la justicia social, abogamos por los derechos de las personas desventajadas, discriminadas, y nuestro enfoque es brindar un servicio de excelencia a toda la población que impactamos. Por tal razón reconocemos la importancia de la intervención social con niñas y niños diagnosticados con el Trastorno del Espectro Autista y sus familias quienes presentan unas necesidades particulares debido al arduo proceso que enfrentan luego del diagnóstico de autismo. Mediante este trabajo se evidenciará la importancia de nuestras intervenciones con la población indicada, las competencias que nos capacitan para trabajar con los mismos, las leyes que les cobijan, las necesidades que presentan, entre otros aspectos. De igual forma cómo las y los trabajadores sociales podemos impactar positivamente la vida de estos niños y niñas con TEA y sus familias mediante nuestras intervenciones. Parte fundamental es continuar educándonos sobre el tema del autismo para poder acompañar a estas familias en su proceso. Este trabajo presenta la importancia de la intervención social con niñas y niños diagnosticados con el Trastorno del Espectro Autista (TEA) y sus familias. En el mismo se presentará un análisis histórico acerca del Autismo, los valores, principios éticos, dilemas presentes de nuestra profesión y las políticas sociales que impactan a la población.

(Series Information) European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2018 3(2), 693-732 | Article | (Table of Contents) I. Introduction. - II. Explaining the paradox: The historical limitations on European "social integration" as a counter-balance to the internal market. - II.1. The traditional European/national divide in the economic/social dichotomy: social progress as a by-product of economic integration. - II.2. Expanding the market freedoms into the domestic social space. - II.3. Unfit for purpose: the structural prioritisation of free movement and the fallacy of the economic/social dichotomy. - II.4. Contributing to a legitimacy deficit? - III. "Social Europe": maintaining the artificial boundaries of social and economic integration. - III.1. The emergence and evolution of social integration as a (constrained) independent Union aim. - III.2. Limits on social integration resulting from the economic/social dichotomy. - IV. Free movement as a sword to access the domestic social space: European social integration via the negative processes of the internal market. - V. Restricting free movement rights: "social integration" as an individual duty and Court of Justice-endorsed Member State shield. - V.1. Scaling back on social integration via free movement and concretising social integration as an individual duty. - V.2. Undermining the Union's social aims. - V.3. Sacrificing equal treatment in vain: the ongoing question mark over European integration. - VI. Legitimising the European social space through an holistic approach to the Treaties. - VI.1. The post-Lisbon call for an holistic approach to economic and social integration. - VI.2. The emergence of a new adjudicative approach. - VII. Conclusion. | (Abstract) Social integration is often depicted as a means of enhancing the Union's legitimacy. Most recently, a reinvigorated "social Europe" has been back on the agenda following the United Kingdom's Brexit vote. And yet, ironically, the EU citizenry often appears resistant to the very mechanisms that seek to make the Union about its people rather than the market. To explore this phenomenon, this Article conducts a much-need historical analysis of the concept of "social integration" within the EU legal order. The investigation identifies the operation of an economic/social dichotomy operating across European/national dividing lines, established by the Rome Treaty. As the market freedoms expanded, coming into ever-more frequent contact with domestic social policies, this dichotomy ultimately proved to be a myth. And yet, the legacy of the economic/social dichotomy has been not only to leave national social policymaking structurally disadvantaged when it clashes with the market freedoms but to constrain the Union's capacity to offer social integration as a counter-balance to the deregulatory effects of the internal market at the supranational-level: European social policymaking is conceptualised as further interference with the traditionally national social sphere. Efforts to pursue social integration, instead, via the mechanisms of the internal market through Union citizenship have also been inherently limited by its market origins. Indeed, as the political winds have changed, "social integration" has been converted from a Union "aim" into an individual duty of economic activity in that context. This undermines the Union's contemporary social aims, whilst doing little to address perceived Euroscepticism. Instead, a further model of social integration is needed; one which sees domestic and Union activities as jointly contributing to a shared constitutional social space and which is realised through a new method of adjudication that structurally recognises the significance of social goals in the present-day Union.

This article analyses the design process of official multidimensional poverty measures in Colombia, Chile, El Salvador and Mexico, and discusses the extent to which such processes have been able to reflect the priorities of people living in poverty. We argue that although these countries have faced limitations in conducting a ”pure participatory-driven” strategy, they have advanced towards measuring poverty in a way that better reflects what disadvantaged people consider to be an impoverished life. We propose guidelines to continue improving the design of official multidimensional poverty measures and make them more open to information on what people value and more sensitive to public reasoning.

La atención al envejecimiento poblacional y en especial al adulto mayor es un tema relevante a nivel mundial y en particular para Cuba por el elevado índice de envejecimiento que presenta su población, por lo que se deben diseñar acciones, desde la política social, encaminadas a dar respuesta a esta situación. El propósito de este trabajo estuvo dirigido a socializar el procedimiento para el diseño de una propuesta de intervención dirigida al adulto mayor en el municipio Santa Clara. Es resultado del trabajo realizado por el Grupo de Atención a la Dinámica Poblacional de la provincia de Villa Clara, adscrito al CITMA, que tuvo como encargo adecuar la política nacional aprobada para la atención al envejecimiento poblacional, a las características y posibilidades de la provincia. La metodología utilizada combina métodos cualitativos y cuantitativos afines al objeto de estudio. Para la experiencia se partió de la caracterización sociodemográfica de la población adulta mayor del municipio, que permitió que se escogieran para la intervención el consejo popular Centro, el Hogar de Ancianos No. 2, la Casa de Abuelos del Reparto Manuelita y el Sistema de Atención a la Familia del consejo popular Hospital. En el estudio se pudo constatar la necesidad de establecer relaciones de cooperación entre los diferentes sectores que tienen una incidencia sobre el adulto mayor, así como los actores sociales de la comunidad, destacándose los procesos de cooperación intersectorial como un principio por el cual se debe regir la política social destinada a ese grupo poblacional a escala municipal. Attention to population aging and especially to the elderly is a relevant issue worldwide and in particular for Cuba due to the high aging rate of its population, so actions should be designed, from the Social Policy, aimed at giving answer to this situation. The purpose of this work was aimed at socializing the procedure for the design of an intervention proposal aimed at the elderly in the municipality of Santa Clara. It is the result of the work carried out by the Group of Attention to the Population Dynamics of the province of Villa Clara, assigned to the CITMA, which had as commission to adapt the national policy approved for the attention to population aging, to the characteristics and possibilities of the province. The methodology used combines qualitative and quantitative methods related to the object of study. The experience was based on the socio-demographic characterization of the older adult population of the municipality. The popular council Centro, the Home for the Elderly No. 2, the Grandparents House of the Manuelita neighborhood, and the Care System to the Family of the popular council Hospital, were chosen for the intervention. It was possible to confirm the need to establish cooperative relationships between the different sectors that have an incidence on the elderly, as well as the social actors of the community, highlighting the processes of intersectoral cooperation as a principle by which it should be governed the social policy aimed at this population group at the municipal level.

This article attempts to reference and establish the option of considering, descriptively and normatively, social intervention as an activity that: (1) is nuclear within the sectorial scope of social services (with which it shares a purpose: interaction), although it is also carried out in other sectors of activity; (2) requires the concurrence of several disciplines and professions, and, fundamentally, of social work, social education (and pedagogy) and the psychology of social intervention; (3) is proposed as a preventive, personalized, integrated and ecological action, as a whole and within the evolution of pro-welfare action and social policies; (4) is called to reinvent itself in the knowledge society, challenged and enriched by technological (digital) and social innovation.

The article is devoted to the research of the maim aspects of the solidarity economy, the substantiation of the expediency of implementing the principles of solidarity labor remuneration, as they are fundamental for the development of a solidarity directed social policy within the national economy. In the course of the study was considered principles of "solidary wage policy", indicators of labor mobility, wage growth, costs for wages, employment of the able-bodied population, influencing the solidarity of the wage system by the example of the countries of the European Union, as well as solidarity oriented system of the organization of calculation of the salary. In the article was considered the relevance of a solidarity economy as an economic activity organized for sustainable individual and collective development.

It aims to explain the process of formulation and management of social policies set in the state functions, demonstrating the importance of public fund dispute in the execution of planning. From literature research, seeks the particularities of dependent capitalism and the mechanisms that shape the class struggle in this context. Also, highlights the historical relationship between planning and Brazilian administrative order, which combines elements of bureaucracy with paternalism, both appropriated by capital in its expansion period in the country. Then treats the theoretical perspectives and concepts about management and planning as a contradictory process. Therefore, the work situates the public fund and the budget as key elements for the reproduction of capital in ever- -increasing scale, but also for the reproduction of labor and execution of social policies.

This article intends to expose the scope of the «Human Rights Based Approach», in order to understand what variables and concepts it involves. We will recount its evolution, validity and how its applied modality is evidenced, through different contributions developed within the framework of the United Nations, as well as the doctrine studious of the subject. Its validity in the Public Administration is of the first order, since the State and its affiliated entities must take into account that the aforementioned approach serves to know if public policies are addressing the needs of specific individuals and communities; Generating public transparency through accountability, as well as avoiding any type of discrimination. Finally, its validity and impact will be analyzed in some jurisprudential antecedents of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

Latin America experienced a process of reduction in income inequality between 2002 and 2014, a period in which most other countries experienced an increase. However, since then inequality has started to increase again. The Scandinavian countries are often regarded as models of low inequality, in spite of recent increases. If compared to Latin America, what stands out about Scandinavia is that one has managed to sustain processes of inequality reduction over several decades in spite of political shifts and changing economic conditions. This paper seeks to identify aspects of the interaction between structural factors, policy changes, and strengthening or weakening of change agents, that have led to sustained inequality reduction in the Scandinavian countries (with a particular emphasis on Norway), and discuss their relevance for Latin America.

This text aims to discuss the tensions in the relationship between the public and the private sectors in the Brazilian Unified Health System (UHS). The celebrations of the 30th anniversary of the UHS took place in a political conjuncture in which the country was facing an unprecedented setback in the political and institutional process and a disintegration of the guarantee of citizenship rights. Assuming an exploratory nature, the study was based on a bibliographical and documentary review of UHS regulations. It deals with counter-reforms that have been striking the UHS since its inception and displays indicators of how it has become functional to the private health sector. All this critical analysis does not disregard the fact that the UHS has built relevant public services and that it is one of the most important achievements in social policies for democratic and popular struggles, and can therefore be considered a national heritage.

This article has the purpose to analyze and reflect the relationship between AUHPS and the migration phenomenon in Argentina. Concretely, it refers that although there was a social and political progress in the country, of respect and recognition to rights of the sons of parents of workers in infomality. This was not the same with Immigrant workers in informal and their families. In this sense, this article tries to find and show meanings and representations of immigrant workers in Argentina, especially Bolivian women who work in Guaymallén, Mendoza State and because of their labor situation they are directly and indirectly connected with the social and political issues.

It is inherent to Social policy answering to a polymorph, complex and growing set of social problems, whose typical uncertainty responds to the moral imperative of mediation between Economics and Politics. Also it responds to the fact that the “social question”, originally “labor question”, changes throughout history. Thus we find of great interest to study systematically the Spanish authors of social policy. We have reviewed the common origin of social policy and labor law to describe the transformation of the first one, exemplified in the work of Marcelo Catalá, Professor of Social School of Madrid. We have observed in it the transformation from the labor to the political, and the overflowing of the social policy classical course.

Gender violence has been constructed as a social problem in diverse semiotic-material matrices. This article describes these matrices and analyzes their effects on laws and municipal services in Quito, Ecuador. Five different matrices are examined: sexuality, health, human rights; security and disciplinary practices. The analysis demonstrates that the actors and voices that attempted to generate ruptures in the status quo have been silenced, while those that have perpetuated the patriarchal order have become hegemonic.

(Series Information) European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2016 1(1), 127-138 | European Forum Insight of 16 April 2016 | (Table of Contents) I. Introduction: pursuing multiple policy objectives via public procurement. - II. Cross-border provision of services and the Posted Workers Directive. - III. Growing inequality and national procurement law. - IV. The decision RegioPost. - V. Conclusion. | (Abstract) Income inequality increased significantly over the past decades. The liberalization and outsourcing of public services, in conjunction with increased pressure on public budgets, has played a considerable role in this development: in procuring services they previously had provided themselves, public authorities fostered price competition among private operators vying for public contracts, which in turn exacerbated the pressure on wages. In response, some public authorities conceived of strategies aimed at neutralizing the downward pressure on wages they effected. Among the measures developed in this context is the establishment of a wage floor via public procurement that contractors and their sub-contractors have to comply with. In principle, European procurement law allows public authorities to set special performance conditions that exceed general regulatory standards. This is also the case in the social area. However, attempts to implement wage floors via public procurement have been repeatedly challenged on the basis of Directive 96/71 (Posted Workers Directive) and Art. 56 TFEU, as the decisions Rüffert (Court of Justice, judgment of 3 April 2008, case C-346/06), Bundesdruckerei (Court of Justice, judgment of 18 September 2014, case C-549/13) and, most recently, RegioPost (Court of Justice, judgment of 17 November 2015, case C-115/04) attest. The present text analyzes the decision RegioPost and sketches the extent to which public procurement can be employed to pursue social policy objectives. It will be shown that RegioPost confirmed the right of public authorities to pursue social objectives via procurement law, which also includes the setting of a procurement wage (even if it exceeds general wage levels), provided that it conforms to the formal requirements of Directive 96/71. The decision clarifies and partly overturns the controversial judgment Rüffert, and - despite its perhaps somewhat technical nature - may contribute to an integration process that is more balanced in socio-economic terms.

Resumen Villa Clara es la provincia más envejecida del país y la atención a este proceso demográfico se declara como urgente para este territorio. El artículo que se presenta constituye un resultado parcial del estudio que viene realizando, en el área de Política Social, un grupo de investigadores del proyecto Estudios de Población, que coordina el Centro de Estudios Demográficos (CEDEM), en la Universidad Central “Marta Abreu” de Las Villas. El objetivo del estudio es destacar, a partir del análisis de datos estadísticos del Censo de Población y Viviendas del 2012 ofrecidos por la Oficina Nacional de Estadísticas e Información (ONEI), la urgencia de incorporar a la estrategia de desarrollo de la provincia de Villa Clara la necesidad de la atención al adulto mayor. La muestra seleccionada está compuesta por 8 municipios de la provincia (Quemado de Güines, Sagua la Grande, Encrucijada, Cifuentes, Santa Clara, Placetas, Camajuaní y Remedios), que son los más envejecidos, según datos de la ONEI. Como resultado se propone que: la política social que se diseñe tenga como objetivo general lograr una atención eficaz a las necesidades del adulto mayor de la provincia a partir de los rasgos esenciales que caracterizan ese proceso en el territorio, que se base en valores como la solidaridad, la cooperación, que los principios que la sustenten sean de descentralización, flexibilidad en el diseño de la política, prevención, equidad, valorando siempre las necesidades y las posibilidades reales de acceso a los servicios de este grupo poblacional. Villa Clara provinceis the oldest in the country and attention to this demographic processis declared a surgent for this territory. The present article is a partial result of the study being done in the area of Social Policy, a group of researchers at the Population Studies project, coordinated by CEDEM at the Central University “Marta Abreu” of Las Villas. The aim of the studyis to highlight, from the analysis of statistical data from Census of Population and Housing 2012 ONEI offered by the urgency of including the development strategy of the province Villa Clara the need forcare of the elderly. The sample consists of 8 municipalities of the province (Quemado de Guines, Sagua la Grande, Encrucijada, Cifuentes, Santa Clara, Placetas, Camajuaní and Remedios), which are the oldest populations, according to theONEI. As a result it is proposed that: social policy that is designed to have as a general objective of achieving an effective attention to the needs of the elderly in the province from the essential features that characterize this process in the territory, which is based on values such as solidarity, cooperation, the principles that support it are decentralization, flexibility in the design of policy, prevention, equity, always valuing the needs and the real possibilities of access to this population group.