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Political Science Caribbean & Latin American

Comparative Public Policy in Latin America

by (author) Jordi Diez & Susan Franceschet

Publisher
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Initial publish date
Dec 2012
Category
Caribbean & Latin American, General, General
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781442641778
    Publish Date
    Dec 2012
    List Price
    $87.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781442610903
    Publish Date
    Nov 2012
    List Price
    $48.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442663626
    Publish Date
    Nov 2012
    List Price
    $38.95

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Description

This pioneering collection offers a comprehensive investigation into how to study public policy in Latin America. While this region exhibits many similarities with the North American and European countries that have traditionally served as sources for generating public policy knowledge, Latin American countries are also different in many fundamental ways. As such, existing policy concepts and frameworks may not always be the most effective tools of analysis for this unique region.

To fill this gap, Comparative Public Policy in Latin America offers guidelines for refining current theories to suit Latin America’s contemporary institutional and socio-economic realities. The contributors accomplish this task by identifying the features of the region that shape public policy, including informal norms and practices, social inequality, and weak institutions. This book promises to become the definitive work on contemporary public policy in Latin America, essential for those who study the area as well as comparative public policy more broadly.

About the authors

Jordi Diez is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Guelph. He is the author of Political Change and Environmental Policymaking in Mexico (Routledge, 2006) and editor of Canadian and Mexican Security in the New North America: Challenges and Prospects (McGill-Queen`s University Press, 2006).

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Susan Franceschet is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Calgary.

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