Public Policy and Research in Latin America

This book examines the development, characteristics, and challenges of public policy research in Latin America from the perspective of leading experts within the region and beyond. It begins by analyzing the growth of public policy as an academic discipline in Latin America, from consolidation in the 1950s to its expansion during the second half of the twentieth century. It then explores innovative approaches to studying key issues in the public agenda, such as defense, welfare, health, migration, corruption, climate change, and public management. The book also places Latin American public policy within a global context, by examining its relationship with Europe and other regions. It is an essential resource for scholars and students of public policy and public administration.

Chapter 1. Introduction. Public policy research in Latin America. An assessment of the field. - Part I: Analytical Frameworks for Public Policy Research and Teaching in Latin America. - Chapter

2. Actor-centered theoretical approaches for the study of public policy. - Chapter 3. A baroque approach to the study of Latin American public policies. - Chapter 4. Methodology for the applied analysis of public policies:A teaching strategy in a political science degree. - Chapter 5. State, Multilevel Governance, and Leadership in Latin America. - Chapter 6. The new international political context and the relationship between the European Union and Latin America. - Chapter 7. Public policies and social movements beyond civil society: towards the organization of subaltern groups in Mexico. - Part II. Sectoral Policy Research in Latin America. - Chapter 8. Migration Processes on the Colombian- Ecuadorian Border: Between War and Peace. - Chapter 9. Welfare regimes and social policies in Latin America. Trajectories and recent changes. - Chapter 10. The challenge of building universal health systems in an unequal region: The SUS (Brazilian Unified Health System) case in Latin America. - Chapter 11. Future Temporalities Coalitions Framework. Comparison of anticipations and aspirations in biopiracy police change in Peru. - Chapter 12. Transparency and corruption control in Latin America: Lessons from Chile. - Chapter 13. New Public Management and its alternatives in Latin America: coexistence, replacement or hybridization? . - Chapter 14. Civil Service Reform in Latin America: Trends and Challenges. - Chapter 15. Social movements, civil society and public policy. Towards the organization of subaltern groups in Mexico. - Chapter 16. Cultural Policy in Latin America: Analyzing the Cultural Diversity Paradigm. - Chapter 17. Conclusions. Towards a Research Agenda on Public Policies in Latin America.