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The article "Governments, territories and public policies: an analysis from a multidimensional and multisectoral perspective. Interview with Daniel Béland" published in the journal Management and Analysis of Public Policies, addresses Professor Daniel Béland's research on the relationship between ideas and institutions in the change of public policies, focusing on fiscal federalism and the restructuring of the welfare state. Béland highlights the importance of considering ideas in politics and public policies, as well as the interaction between ideas, institutions, and political actors. Additionally, his work on comparative federalism, territorial governance, and health policies in the United States, Mexico, and Canada is mentioned. [Extracted from the article]

Resumen: En este artículo se estudia si ha mejorado el acceso de las trabajadoras del hogar remuneradas a contratos y prestaciones gracias a la Ley N° 31047/2020 del Perú, que les otorga plenos derechos legales y protección social. Se analizan datos obtenidos de la Encuesta Nacional de Hogares y de entrevistas con cinco empleadoras y un grupo focal de once trabajadoras, como complemento de estadísticas sobre la aplicación. Se investigan las deficiencias y se formulan recomendaciones de política. Los derechos de las trabajadoras no se respetan plenamente, por falta de control estatal y por un incumplimiento deliberado de los empleadores, situación propiciada por la «desformalidad» socioeconómica del Perú. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Review of the book from Bent Greve, De Gruyter Handbook of Contemporary Welfare States, De Gruyter, 2022, 445 pp. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Review of the book directed by Eloísa del Pino Matute and M.ª Josefa Rubio Lara, Los estados de bienestar en la encrucijada: políticas sociales en perspectiva comparada (3.ª ed.). Tecnos. 2024, 504 pp. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

European countries are gradually recognizing animal rights and implementing specific social policies. Particularly in Spain, the debate is intensifying with the approval of law 17/2021 on animal welfare. This research seeks to analyze the main arguments about animals as subjects of rights in our societies. The methodology consists of a systematic review of the specialized literature. The results reveal four argumentative axes. The first focuses on European and national policies that since the 1980s consider animals as sentient beings, linking their good treatment with the EU's common agricultural policy (CAP) aid. The second highlights the physical and psychological benefits of the human-animal relationship. A third axis addresses the social inclusion of animals by social democratic political parties. Finally, a fourth axis emerges with the extension of the concept of citizenship to animals, led by "Zoopolis" in 2011. As main conclusions, animal welfare is seen as a revisable concept, approaching the concept of citizenship, in connection and synergy with that of social welfare. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article presents results of a research carried out whose objective was to analyze the intervention of the IMAS in the socio-material and ideologicalcultural conditions of the "poor working women", who participated in the Bridge to Development Strategy during 2015-2018. The study used a qualitative approach based on a Marxist theoretical-methodological base and the contributions of the theory of social reproduction. The results showed that the institution seeks to modulate behaviors, so that women self-manage their needs by increasing their productive capacity and human capital. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

El objeto de este artículo es comprender el perfil de clase, raza y género de las personas que se verían más afectadas si el Estado brasileño dejara de prestar servicios de salud y educación. Se analizan las desigualdades de clase, raza y género en el Brasil y se examina el papel del Estado en ese sentido. Asimismo, se presenta un análisis del gasto público en educación y salud a través de una discusión de los perfiles de clase, raza y género de los usuarios y una simulación de la eliminación de dicho gasto público. Los resultados indican que la eliminación de los servicios públicos sumiría a las personas más pobres, a la población negra2 y a las mujeres (categorías que a menudo se superponen) en graves dificultades financieras y perjudicaría su bienestar, lo que podría profundizar la pobreza o llevar a la extrema pobreza. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article, which is published in two parts, aims to describe the main characteristics of the design and implementation process of the Great Housing Mission Venezuela (GMHV) as one of the most relevant social programs in recent years in terms of housing and habitat in the country. In almost a century since the beginning of state intervention in the sector, this program has set the most ambitious construction goals and has had the largest volume of financial resources allocated to government action of this naturetags. Through an approach to the retrospective analysis systematized by authors such as Richard Elmore (1996), this second part provides an approach to the complex and uncertain process of housing allocation, describes the six vertices or axes of action that make up the program and succinctly presents the main quantitative results. according to the official information available. In a transversal way, some of the main risks faced by the GMHV in its objective of contributing to guaranteeing the right to adequate housing are identified. It is concluded that the orientation of this program has given greater emphasis to the massive construction of housing than to the integral development of cities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article conducts an analysis of the factors hindering the effective and efficient administration of state resources and proposes a new paradigm for public management. Multiple obstacles prevent achieving the well-being of the diverse citizenry, necessitating their elimination and a redefinition of public management with a shift in policy priorities to promote inclusive growth. The inclusion vector requires significant investments in human capital, including education, health, and technology, to enhance well-being and quality of life, as well as in physical infrastructure to boost productivity and absorb technological progress. Priorities include formal and productive employment, healthcare sector reform, education, and socially integrated investments. Seven lessons from macroeconomic policy are outlined as applicable to the new public management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sometimes, subsidiary policies mitigate inflationary problems and try to avoid social protests, maintain or increase confidence in the government. We compare the relationships between wages and inflation for the last three six-year terms in Mexico. For the period 2006-2012 the level of inflation does not determine a salary increase, in 2012-2018, it caused an increase of 4% and since 2018, the increase was 16.4%. Additionally, we estimate the percentage of acceptance of each government, based on inflationary and subsidiary policies, using a logit model. The results show that inflation negatively affected government acceptance by 0.113%, while the salary increase increased it by 0.108%. Regarding each ruler, the acceptance of 79% of the government in turn stands out, being the largest in recent decades. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article takes up the concept of surplus labor force as understood in Latin American economic thought, due to its importance in pointing out the difficulties of capitalism in incorporating people into quality jobs and explaining the reproduction of inequalities. To contribute to the study of women's labor exclusion in the region, two objectives are pursued. The first objective is to construct a theoretical-methodological proposal to study the surplus of the labor force by re-reading the structuralist approach from a feminist economics perspective. The second objective is to analyze with this adapted framework the evolution of the surplus of the labor force, as well as the Argentine welfare policy that aims to regulate it and its link with the reproduction of gender inequalities at the national level between 2003 and 2019. For this purpose, a documentary and statistical analysis of different sources is carried out. The results show the structural persistence of exclusion and gender inequality as a result of the articulation between the labor features of the Argentine development style and the consolidated welfare policy pattern. This pattern is based on conditional cash transfers and was functional to the feminization of the surplus of the labor force during the first two decades of the 21st century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The evolution of the electoral results obtained in recent years by far-right parties, in more than half of the coun- tries of the European Union, raises some fears and represents a normal concern about the possible threat that the present and future policies that these parties can implement, translate into a limiting effect on the fundamental rights of the population. It is possible to find some answers in the analy- sis of the measures carried out by the mem- ber countries in the area of social policy, particularly in relation to those that promote or inhibit the social inclusion of the most vulnerable groups (by reducing the budget items of this section), and especially of the immigrant population. It is curious to observe how, apart from Poland and Hungary, the greatest boom is occurring in social democratic countries (Sweden and Finland), Mediterranean (Italy) and continental (France) and the smallest, in liberal countries (the United Kingdom). United Kingdom and Ireland). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the evaluation of the Home Care Service in Catalonia, a complex public policy in which intervene various agents and spheres of government. The main purpose’s service is to provide personal support at home to people without autonomy or social vulnerability situation. The service is becoming increasingly strategic in the face of social changes and, especially, due to the aging process. The evaluation analyses three key aspects of the policy related to its design and implementation and has been carried out with mixed, quantitative and qualitative, methods. The evaluation analyses, firstly, the discourse and coherence of the policy; secondly, its implementation and the territorial differences in the coverage and intensity of the service, focusing on its causes; and thirdly, the changes in the uses of the social pillar of the service since the passing of the Dependency Law. The study highlights the complexity of social policies that are implemented in different territorial areas and the difficulties in addressing their design, application and, especially, their evaluation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Este artículo analiza los cambios recientes en las políticas sobre la economía social y solidaria (ESS) de ocho países de América Latina: Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, México y Uruguay. Se describen las reglas institucionales que limitaron o ampliaron la capacidad de los Estados para desarrollar las políticas públicas. Se analizan los avances en legislación y otra normativa, y los cambios en la institucionalidad especializada. La información proviene de una amplia revisión de documentos y bases de datos generados por instituciones públicas, académicas y organizaciones de la economía social y solidaria. Se concluye que este es un concepto polisémico, con especificidades propias de cada país, que se encuentra en construcción y desarrollo permanente. Se recogen las diversas perspectivas de la política para la economía social y solidaria, que se expresan en diversos marcos legales, así como la ausencia o presencia de institucionalidad especializada en los casos estudiados. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Se comparan los efectos de los choques en el mercado laboral y las respuestas de política social en el bienestar de las personas tras la irrupción de la pandemia de COVID-19 en la Argentina, el Brasil, Chile y el Uruguay. Se evalúa el papel de los ingresos laborales de los sectores formal e informal y de las transferencias sociales en el cambio observado en la distribución del ingreso y el bienestar. Se trabajó con microdatos de encuestas de hogares armonizadas y se realizó un análisis de microdescomposiciones por fuentes de ingresos. En los cuatro países la pérdida de ingresos laborales fue el principal mecanismo que explicó la pérdida de ingresos, y lo ocurrido en el sector informal fue determinante para explicar el incremento de la pobreza. Los ingresos por transferencias cumplieron un papel disímil sobre el bienestar según los países, tanto por la magnitud de su impacto como por su función en términos de equidad. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this article is to delve into the influence the Guanajuato government 2017 Centers for Social Advancement Program had on increasing social cohesion in the poor, highly marginalized areas it was implemented in. The study concludes that no significant relation can be drawn between participation and the existence of greater social cohesion compared to the places where it was not implemented. This can be explained in part by the dynamic of the social program itself. The author considers that the article's main contribution is that it offers a tool, the social cohesion index, to evaluate these kinds of programs that aim to influence this topic of worldwide importance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article, which is published in two parts, aims to describe the main characteristics of the design and implementation process of the Great Mission Housing Venezuela (GMHV) as one of the most relevant social programs in recent years in the country, in terms of housing and habitat. In almost a century since the beginning of state intervention in the sector, this program has set the most ambitious construction goals and has had the largest volume of financial resources allocated to this kind of government action. Through a retrospective analysis, in this first part, the context in which the GMHV emerges and the legal, programmatic, and institutional framework that sustains it are reconstructed. A second part directly addresses some of the most relevant results of the program after 12 years of execution, as well as the opportunities and risks it represents for the guarantee of the right to adequate housing in Venezuela today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this article is to discuss about the relationship of the School of Social Work of University of Costa Rica with international organizations during the decades of 1950-1960. For the development of this study, a documentary analysis of sources such as books, files, correspondence and minutes of the School belonging to the aforementioned period was carried out. As part of the results, the influence of this relationship is observed in some courses of the 1954 and 1965 curriculum of the School. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the main results of an investigation that inquire the ways in which the subjects of assistance are problematized, and the link established between popular sectors and the National State, from the arrival of the Alianza Cambiemos to the presidency between 2015 and 2019, in Argentina. Based on a set of theoretical tools of the Foucauldian scaffolding, and from a qualitative approach, the main problems that fuel the emergence and implementation of the national program «Estado en tu Barrio» are analyzed. The paper sustains that, in a context of deteriorating living and working conditions, this policy can be thought of as a government dispositive aimed at expanding local social-assistance interventions, individualizing the Statetarget population relationship and assisting to these populations under the imperative of urgency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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La pandemia de enfermedad por coronavirus (COVID-19), ¿potenció ideas favorables a la política social inclusiva en América Latina? Este artículo aborda esta pregunta a través de un análisis del programa de transferencias monetarias de emergencia implementado durante 2020 en Costa Rica. A partir de debates legislativos y entrevistas a jerarcas y analistas, mostramos la presencia, muy acotada en el tiempo, de ideas favorables a extender la protección social no contributiva. El nuevo programa se vio rápidamente limitado por un discurso que asimilaba la responsabilidad fiscal a la reducción del gasto social, antes que a la ampliación de los ingresos. Evitando generalizaciones simplistas, los hallazgos invitan al análisis contextualizado del impacto de la pandemia en procesos específicos de formación de política y a considerar el papel de las ideas en los debates sobre la política social. Si existe un riesgo para la política social inclusiva, este es el discurso dominante de austeridad. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Using interpretative analysis methods, the paper looks at policy and analyzes the meaning, values and judgements implicit in the devices that gave footing to the program's creation and of the analysis of six interviews with public officials in a position to make decisions and that participated in part in the creation or modification of the program. The results show that the prejudices of the culture of poverty are present in the documents that gave rise to the program, in the founding documents of the program and within the narratives of said public officials. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present article undertakes an analysis of a social policy in Argentina, executed since February 2020. Specifically, from the tradition of critical studies of ideology, we analyze the construction of "hunger" as a social problem, its actors and agencies, expressed in the written informative materials handed out to the beneficiaries of the "Alimentar Card" in the city of Córdoba. This debit card is destined to poor families, for the purchase of food. We study how discourse allows visualizing, as symptoms, the class bias and ideological truths consolidated around the eating of poor people in Capitalist Realism. For this, we approach the public event in which the Alimentar Card was distributed, and analyze specifically the informative materials given to assistants. The case identifies ideological principles of capitalism, central to questioning current democracies and policies, such as the ideas of shortage, infantilization of the poor and individual resolution of poverty though consumption. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Colombia is one of the most inequal countries in Latin America, which at the same time, is the most inequal region of the world. Even though this situation is discouraging it is not new, the difference lays on the importance that this situation has been taken in the political agenda in the nation, awakening multiple expectative between the citizens who has been the eternal losers: the poor. This paper focuses on the challenges that the new government of Gustavo Petro faces in matter of the inequality and poverty that affects over the half of the population in Colombia, at the same time provides a context of the Colombian case in the conjuncture of global and regional socioeconomic changes that incident on the chances of fulfill structural transformations at the social policy. Although this research acknowledges a large spectrum of inequalities existing in the territory (gender, generational, ethnic, racial) it focusses on the income inequality. This analysis takes place based on the data of specialized sources on the subject and the monitoring fluctuations of inequality in Colombia in the last decade. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The usefulness of formal support networks has transcended in the theoretical construction and in the exercise of public policy, this as a new form of joint participation from the public, private and social spheres. This study aims to analyze the formation of the formal network for the social and economic development of female heads of family. Its scope is descriptive-analytical, which allowed delineating the inter-institutional integration of the network from the Women's Secretariat as a nuclear instance. Finally, the conclusions and recommendations are externalized, among which the role of the State as the main emissary of the network, the functionality of the networks and the particularities of the network in question stand out. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: The emergence of a new coronavirus at the end of 2019, whose first cases in Costa Rica were detected in March of the following year, posed important challenges both individually and collectively, specifically the State had to develop alternative confrontations in a few months that They were not limited to the health field, but required intervention in the area of assistance and social security, among other public policy actions. Objective: The text below presents a first approximation to the actions of the Costa Rican State to confront the crisis caused by COVID-19, for which it is considered necessary to understand the dynamics of the broader historical process of capital accumulation, within which this crisis unfolded. Methodology: Given the fact that the information on this topic emerges rapidly, the use of newspaper and documentary analysis was considered essential for the realization of this text. Results: The text shows that public policy actions revolved mainly at the health level, as well as at the level of economic assistance, the latter had a strong component aimed at national companies that were affected by COVID-19. Conclusion: As part of this reflection, it is concluded that there is a need to strengthen the security and social assistance systems aimed at individuals and families as a way of structuring public policy in the country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Food policies in Argentina have gained prominence in social policies agenda in Argentina since 1983. THe persistant problem of hunger affects the technicians and professionals who have managed and implemented food policies. The way people perceive and feel the social world regulates management practices. In order to design and implement food programs in Argentina, it is necessary to investigate people's perception of the world. This contributes to understand the connection between social policies and structures. This paper aims to identify emotions of technicians and professionals associated with the design, management and implementation of food policies. This is a qualitative study with an in-depth interviews to technicians and professionals who have managed and implemented food policies in General Pueyrredon between 1983-2020. The main results show emotions such as frustration, anger and resignation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The current research aims to analyze the financial unsustainability and the technical bankruptcy faced by the social security system of the state of Veracruz, under the hypothesis that this problem is not only the result of the logic with which the defined benefit regime operates which sustains, but also the tendency to increase the benefits granted without the corresponding increase in the contributions, as well as the original design and the reforms to its parametric variables over time. Regime in which contributions have been insufficient to maintain the long-term balance between the income collected and the expenses of the payment of pensions, during the life of each pensioner. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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