Afirmar que lo religioso es parte de la vida de las sociedades desde tiempos inmemoriales no es nada novedoso para las ciencias sociales. Hemos aprendido que las personas expresan de diversas formas su búsqueda de lo ...

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 ...

Uruguay es un pequeño país del sur de América Latina que construyó una experiencia de laicidad fuertemente inspirada en el modelo francés y que incluso llegó a niveles de mayor radicalidad. Esta asunción hace necesario ...

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 ...

Between 1973 and 1985, Uruguay was ruled by a Bureaucratic-Authoritarian regime. Following regional trends, this period mostly coincided with the stagnation of the industrialization model oriented toward the domestic market. ...