Broschiertes Buch

Social Policies in Times of Austerity and Populism

Lessons from Brazil

Herausgegeben: Sátyro, Natália

Beschreibung

Featuring the latest research by Brazilian-based scholars previously inaccessible to an English-speaking audience, this book is a timely, authoritative, multidisciplinary overview of social policies in Brazil during the Temer austerity and the Bolsonaro populist presidencies. The breadth of policies studied herein provides clues on the political agenda, preferences, and strategies during this tumultuous period in Brazil's history.

Divided into four parts, Part I is a conceptualization: it brings basic understanding of Brazilian social policies, explains the trajectory of the Brazil political landscape, including the growth of a populist right-wing movement, the economic crisis and the increase in poverty and inequality in Brazil prior, and the threat to democracy brought about by the disinformation ecosystem. Part II discusses social security, social assistance, conditional cash transfers, and healthcare. Part III analyzes the neoliberal strategies to social investmentpolicies, specifically labor, family, and education. In Part IV, the authors turn their attention to non-conventional topics that are not typically included in research on welfare state retrenchment, including the environment and indigenous rights, and police violence and gun control.

Social Policies in Times of Austerity and Populism is unhesitatingly recommended to all those who teach welfare state politics, comparative public policy, development studies, Brazilian politics, and right-wing politics.

Autor

Natália Sátyro is Associate Professor of Political Science at Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. She was also the coordinator of Asociación Latinoamericana de Ciencia Política (ALACIP) Public Policy Research Group (GIPP, 2013-2024) and she is the Convenor of International Political Science Association (IPSA, 2023-present) Research Committee on Welfare State and Developing Societies (RC39). Her research interests include welfare state, welfare policy, income transfer programs, income inequality, and political institutions. She teaches and researches in the field of public policies, with emphasis on institutional analysis and social policies in Brazil and Latin America.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge / Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 412
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9781032758374
• ISBN-10: 1032758376
• Artikelnr.: 70146152

Rezensionen

Did years of ultra-right-wing governance dismantle Brazil's welfare state? In this impressive volume, Natália Sátyro and her colleagues provide an extraordinarily comprehensive and thorough theoretical and empirical treatment of concurrent welfare policy in Brazil. Their analyses conclude that Brazil's authoritarian populism introduced some policy retrenchments, but the welfare edifice remained resilient against any radical onslaught. This book represents political economy analysis at its very best.

Gosta Esping-Andersen, Professor of Sociology at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Natália Sátyro and her colleagues have delivered an exceptional comparative analysis, shedding light on the deliberate efforts of the

populist political right to scale back social policies in Brazil. Their work meticulously delineates the extent and depth of social policy dismantling, while also revealing the conditions and motivations that drive politicians to engage in such actions. This book is an indispensable read for scholars interested not only in understanding the repercussions of populist governance on social policy within Brazil but also its implications on a broader global scale.

Michael Bauer, Professor of European University Institute and Jean Monnet Professor of the European Union

For scholars and policymakers, this book is an essential resource for understanding the interplay between austerity, populism, and social policy in Brazil, as well as its broader implications for the global rise of the populist radical right. While the book is dense with figures, statistics, and technical financial and economic data, it remains essential reading for anyone interested in these critical issues. Sátyro and her Brazilian colleagues offer valuable insights that are well worth attention.

Bulent Kenes, European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS)