• Latin America 

      Huber, Evelyne; Bogliaccini, Juan Ariel (Oxford University Press, 2010)
      This chapter is organized into three sections. The first discusses the origins and development of Latin American welfare states before moving on to outline more recent reforms of social policy regimes in the area. A second ...
    • Preferences for redistribution and tax burdens in Latin America 

      Bogliaccini, Juan Ariel; Luna, Juan Pablo (Cambridge University Press, 2019)
      Diverse studies of the political economy of tax composition across middleincome countries have found that Latin American economies tax upperincome groups much less than do other developing regions, such as East Asia and ...
    • State capacity and social investment: explaining variation in skills creation reforms in Latin America 

      Bogliaccini, Juan Ariel; Madariaga, Aldo (2020)
      Latin America has been historically characterized by a focus on compensatory social policies, state capacity problems and unstable political coalitions impairing political and policy sustainability. In the 1980s-90s ...
    • The politics of conditionality in Latin America's cash transfer reforms [preprint] 

      Rossel, Cecilia; Antía, Florencia; Manzi, Pilar (Universidad Católica del Uruguay, 2022)
      The extent to which Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) are aligned with the social investment paradigm is still a contested issue. In this chapter, we offer new evidence to understand the conditions under which CCTs should ...