Juliana Martínez Franzoni
Biographic Data
| ID | 225330 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Juliana Martínez Franzoni |
| GIVEN NAMES | Juliana Martínez |
| FAMILY NAME | Franzoni |
| SIGNATURE | FRANZONI J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9931-6915 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 147 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Protecting Children from Poverty in Unequal Democracies: The Determinants of Public Opinion on Child Cash Transfers in Latin America
Although conditional cash transfers are a cornerstone of Latin American welfare states, little is known about the public opinion dynamics that sustain or challenge their long-term viability. Drawing on original, nationally representative surveys conducted in 2022 in seven Latin American democracies (Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, and Peru), this article examines public support for cash transfers toward children across …
Confronting the mismatch between problems and solutions: Global social policy in an era of state skepticism and multilateral retrenchment
Emergency Responses to Covid-19 and Opportunities for Inclusive Social Policy
This article addresses whether responses to COVID-19 created opportunities for future policy change. We explore this matter by presenting a framework rooted in political economy and the literature on pandemics. We argue that the opportunities created by emergency responses are context-specific and that narratives, policy tools, and pro-equity state actors are variables that mediate emergency responses and future opportunities. We ground our analy…
The Covid-19 pandemic and social policy narratives in Costa Rica: The story of a (fleeting) opportunity
Did the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic embolden ideas favourable to inclusive social policy in Latin America? This article addresses that question by examining the emergency cash transfer programme that was implemented in Costa Rica in 2020. Drawing on legislative debates and interviews with senior officials and analysts, the study reveals the fleeting emergence of ideas in favour of expanding non-contributory social protection. The new …
Oportunidades perdidas pospandemia: Transferencias y vacunación en El Salvador
Este artículo investiga si las respuestas a la pandemia implicaron oportunidades para crear y/o ampliar políticas sociales inclusivas en El Salvador, uno de los países latinoamericanos que destinó más recursos a enfrentarla. Para ello, examina las principales respuestas de corto plazo desplegadas en 2020 y 2021 -transferencias monetarias y vacunación, sus actores y justificaciones- y determina si crearon legados expansivos pasada la pandemia. Los…
Seizing the opportunity to do things differently: Feminist ideas, policies and actors in UN Women’s ‘Feminist Plan for Sustainability and Social Justice’
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic early in 2020, we have heard global leaders, public intellectuals and civil society activists speaking of a crisis that requires not just ‘building back better’ but rather a radical reconstruction of the pre-pandemic world. Among these, the United Nations (UN) Secretary General has called for a ‘New global Deal’ and a ‘New social contract’ rooted in global solidarity. Such calls contest the idea that t…
Latin American Social Policy Developments in the Twenty-First Century
Pensiones alimentarias y protección social ante la pandemia en América Latina durante el 2020: Oportunidades para superar la desconexión
Este artículo examina la conversación pública y las medidas políticas tomadas en materia de pensiones alimentarias y de transferencias monetarias de emergencia durante los primeros ocho meses de la pandemia en los 19 países de América Latina. Aunque las transferencias alimentarias son un derecho de toda persona menor de edad que no convive con uno de sus progenitores, la enorme mayoría de niños, niñas y adolescentes de esta región no las recibe. …
Imploding and redrawing care regimes in Latin America: Opportunities and challenges for women’s economic empowerment
We provide an overview of the care regime in Latin America and its associated adaptive (market- and family-based) strategies available to women at the bottom and the top of the income distribution. In an effort to convey the high inequality that currently cuts across adaptive and/coping mechanisms in work and care in Latin America, we regularly make comparisons with adaptive strategies to reconcile work and family in European countries. The relat…
Special Section on The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence
Care is so ubiquitous that it easily becomes invisible. As an acute shock that suddenly disrupted multiple dimensions of life, COVID-19 made visible the importance of care, the extent to which economies rely on women’s unpaid and underpaid labor, and the terrible human and economic costs associated with its inadequate and unequal organization. At the same time, the pandemic has provided an opportunity to envision—and to fight for—a better world i…
Understanding the State Regulation of Fatherhood in Latin America: Complementary versus Co-responsible
Fatherhood is a key but missing component of research on welfare regimes. What do states formally demand from fatherhood across Latin America? Using a novel data set of coded legal and policy provisions for 19 Latin American countries, this article offers a conceptual framework to examine state interventions targeting biological, caregiving and breadwinning dimensions of fatherhood. My findings show that, regardless of how robust their social pol…
Health inequalities related to informal employment: Gender and welfare state variations in the Central American region
People engaged in informal employment are not insured by any labour or social protection. Welfare state regimes could affect the relationship between informal employment and health. This study aimed to assess the relationship between informal employment and health status in the non-agricultural working population in Central America, by welfare state regime and gender. Based on a sample of 8680 non-agricultural workers (First Central American Surv…
Growth to Limits of Female Labor Participation in Latin America’s Unequal Care Regime1
Throughout Latin America, legal barriers enabling women to make a living equal to men are largely gone. However, women continue to lag behind men in gaining access to economic resources, and women’s labor participation differs significantly across class lines. Drawing on a policy-based explanation, we argue that a primary reason why the removal of legal barriers is insufficient for women’s economic empowerment due to the presence of a socially un…
Overcoming Segmentation in Social Policy? Comparing New Early Education and Childcare Efforts in Costa Rica and Uruguay
During the late 2000s, Early Child Education and Care (ECEC) became a policy priority for several Latin American countries. Coherent with international ideas yet against the legacy of deep-seated segmentation, the new programs embraced universalist aims. Are countries able to achieve universalism? Why are some countries advancing more than others? This article addresses this question, exploring changes in the policy architectures and policy proce…
Handbook on Gender and Social Policy
Did recent social policy expansion entail positive changes for women and for gender equality in Latin America? This chapter argues that, overall, this expansion brought good news for women’s visibility as subjects of policy but a more mixed record in whether state programmes reinforced or contributed to alter gender inequality in the region. On the one hand, policy developments increased the proportion of women with their own incomes, improved wo…
Undoing segmentation? Latin American health care policy during the economic boom
For all the agreement regarding the segmented character of Latin America's social policy, few studies define it clearly, let alone suggest exact ways to measure it. This article provides a more precise definition based on a threefold policy output comprising coverage, generosity, and equity. Empirically, the article explores the cross‐national variation in segmentation in health care within Latin America in 2000 and 2013, before and after Latin A…
The Divergence in Women’s Economic Empowerment: Class and Gender under the Pink Tide1
Since 1990, men’s monopoly over economic resources, a key feature of gender inequality, has been irreversibly eroded across Latin America. Women’s access to income of their own has improved in dramatic ways. The most significant change preceded the Pink Tide years, fueled by structural conditions such as fertility drops and neoliberal policies’ downward pressure on male wages and employment. However, women’s access to resources remained condition…
How did Costa Rica achieve social and market incorporation: Juliana Martínez Franzoni and Diego Sánchez-Ancochea
In 1980, just before the debt crisis and in contrast with the experience of the rest of Latin America, almost all Costa Ricans had formal jobs and high-quality social services. To explain this double social and market incorporation, the present article calls into question the role of land distribution, high-quality public institutions and democracy. Instead of these, it focuses on the State-building process whereby a small emerging elite of busin…
Putting universalism to the service of social justice: Can two-tiered systems be avoided
Maternalism, Co-responsibility, and Social Equity: A Typology of Work-Family Policies
Este documento proporciona un punto de vista conceptual para abordar la complejidad de las políticas involucradas en la conciliación del trabajo remunerado y las responsabilidades familiares. Nuestra tipología clasifica las políticas según cómo intervienen en la relación entre el trabajo remunerado y las relaciones familiares, alternando el trabajo remunerado y no remunerado, transfiriendo el trabajo no remunerado fuera de la familia o formalizan…
Filling in the Missing Link between Universalism and Democracy: The Case of Costa Rica
This article explores a missing link in the recent literature on the formation of social policies: that between democracy and universalism, one desirable yet elusive feature of these policies. We base our argument on a case study of Costa Rica, the most successful case of universalism in Latin America. We proceed by first depicting Costa Rica's peculiar policy architecture, based on the incremental expansion of benefits funded on payroll taxes. T…
Transferencias Condicionadas E Igualdad De Género: ¿Blancos, Negros O Grises?
¿En qué medida las transferencias condicionadas (TMC), programas “estrella” de la nueva generación de la política social latinoamericana, inhiben o promueven mayores grados de igualdad de género? Usando un instrumento teórico-empírico novedoso, y a partir de fuentes primarias y secundarias, nuestro análisis compara tres países con regímenes de bienestar contrastantes: Chile, Costa Rica y El Salvador. Mostramos que, aunque en términos de la iguald…
Can Latin American Production Regimes Complement Universalistic Welfare Regimes: Implications from the Costa Rican Case
Much of the literature on political economy expects complementarities between (universal) welfare regimes and production regimes. This article draws from Costa Rica's showcase of human development and universalistic social policies to address how the production regime supports and constrains the welfare regime. We show that there were some positive relations between the two regimes at various points but that they were neither fully nor mostly com…
Blacks, Whites, or Grays? Conditional Transfers and Gender Equality in Latin America
Can poverty and gender relations be disentangled? Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs have spread throughout Latin America and beyond based on the claim that they are an effective social policy tool to combat poverty. While changing gender relations is not among CCTs' explicit objectives, gender relations are nonetheless shaped by these policies. Unfortunately, the debate concerning how CCTs shape gender relations has treated gender inequali…
Actors and ideas behind CCTs in Chile, Costa Rica and El Salvador
Conditional Cash Transfer programs are currently at a crossroads, between consolidating minimum safety nets and laying the basis for universal social policy. In assessing which direction CCTs will take, it is important to analyze their formation. What domestic actors have been influential and how have expert-driven international ideas entered the domestic policy process? Is the impact related to existing welfare regimes? In this article the autho…
Welfare Regimes in Latin America: Capturing Constellations of Markets, Families, and Policies
This article presents both a theoretical framework and a methodology that attempt to capture the complex interactions among labor markets, families, and public policy that currently constitute Latin American welfare regimes. Drawing on cluster analysis based on available data for 18 countries, the study identifies three welfare regimes. Two are state welfare regimes: protectionist (e.g. Costa Rica) and productivist (e.g. Chile); one is nonstate f…
Maternalism, Co-responsibility, and Social Equity: A Typology of Work-Family Policies
Este documento proporciona un punto de vista conceptual para abordar la complejidad de las políticas involucradas en la conciliación del trabajo remunerado y las responsabilidades familiares. Nuestra tipología clasifica las políticas según cómo intervienen en la relación entre el trabajo remunerado y las relaciones familiares, alternando el trabajo remunerado y no remunerado, transfiriendo el trabajo no remunerado fuera de la familia o formalizan…
Blacks, Whites, or Grays? Conditional Transfers and Gender Equality in Latin America
Can poverty and gender relations be disentangled? Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs have spread throughout Latin America and beyond based on the claim that they are an effective social policy tool to combat poverty. While changing gender relations is not among CCTs' explicit objectives, gender relations are nonetheless shaped by these policies. Unfortunately, the debate concerning how CCTs shape gender relations has treated gender inequali…
Actors and ideas behind CCTs in Chile, Costa Rica and El Salvador
Conditional Cash Transfer programs are currently at a crossroads, between consolidating minimum safety nets and laying the basis for universal social policy. In assessing which direction CCTs will take, it is important to analyze their formation. What domestic actors have been influential and how have expert-driven international ideas entered the domestic policy process? Is the impact related to existing welfare regimes? In this article the autho…
Growth to Limits of Female Labor Participation in Latin America’s Unequal Care Regime1
Throughout Latin America, legal barriers enabling women to make a living equal to men are largely gone. However, women continue to lag behind men in gaining access to economic resources, and women’s labor participation differs significantly across class lines. Drawing on a policy-based explanation, we argue that a primary reason why the removal of legal barriers is insufficient for women’s economic empowerment due to the presence of a socially un…
Who Cares in Nicaragua? A Care Regime in an Exclusionary Social Policy Context
In Latin American countries with historically strong social policy regimes (such as those in the Southern Cone), neoliberal policies are usually blamed for the increased burden of female unpaid work. However, studying the Nicaraguan care regime in two clearly defined periods - the Sandinista and the neoliberal eras - suggests that this argument may not hold in the case of countries with highly familialist social policy regimes. Despite major econ…
Overcoming Segmentation in Social Policy? Comparing New Early Education and Childcare Efforts in Costa Rica and Uruguay
During the late 2000s, Early Child Education and Care (ECEC) became a policy priority for several Latin American countries. Coherent with international ideas yet against the legacy of deep-seated segmentation, the new programs embraced universalist aims. Are countries able to achieve universalism? Why are some countries advancing more than others? This article addresses this question, exploring changes in the policy architectures and policy proce…
The Divergence in Women’s Economic Empowerment: Class and Gender under the Pink Tide1
Since 1990, men’s monopoly over economic resources, a key feature of gender inequality, has been irreversibly eroded across Latin America. Women’s access to income of their own has improved in dramatic ways. The most significant change preceded the Pink Tide years, fueled by structural conditions such as fertility drops and neoliberal policies’ downward pressure on male wages and employment. However, women’s access to resources remained condition…
Undoing segmentation? Latin American health care policy during the economic boom
For all the agreement regarding the segmented character of Latin America's social policy, few studies define it clearly, let alone suggest exact ways to measure it. This article provides a more precise definition based on a threefold policy output comprising coverage, generosity, and equity. Empirically, the article explores the cross‐national variation in segmentation in health care within Latin America in 2000 and 2013, before and after Latin A…
Filling in the Missing Link between Universalism and Democracy: The Case of Costa Rica
This article explores a missing link in the recent literature on the formation of social policies: that between democracy and universalism, one desirable yet elusive feature of these policies. We base our argument on a case study of Costa Rica, the most successful case of universalism in Latin America. We proceed by first depicting Costa Rica's peculiar policy architecture, based on the incremental expansion of benefits funded on payroll taxes. T…
Presión o legitimación? Poder y alternativas en el diseño y adopción de la reforma de salud en Costa Rica, 1988-1998
La formación de políticas responde a lógicas de presión y legitimación que se combinan de distintas maneras. Este trabajo analiza el diseño y adopción de dos políticas de reforma de salud realizadas en Costa Rica entre 1988 y 1998. El trabajo se pregunta si son los partidos políticos, las instituciones financieras internacionales y las elites tecnoburocráticas sectoriales factores explicativos suficientes. La evidencia empírica sugiere que además…
How did Costa Rica achieve social and market incorporation: Juliana Martínez Franzoni and Diego Sánchez-Ancochea
In 1980, just before the debt crisis and in contrast with the experience of the rest of Latin America, almost all Costa Ricans had formal jobs and high-quality social services. To explain this double social and market incorporation, the present article calls into question the role of land distribution, high-quality public institutions and democracy. Instead of these, it focuses on the State-building process whereby a small emerging elite of busin…
The Role of Distributional Coalitions in Welfare Regimes: Chile, Costa Rica and El Salvador
Do social policies in Latin America promote or discourage distribution? And if they do promote distribution, are coalitions a prerequisite? Drawing from a typology of welfare regimes elaborated for 18 Latin American countries, this article explores responses to these questions by addressing three emblematic cases: Chile, Costa Rica and El Salvador – that is, countries where the management of social risks primarily revolves around markets, states …
Seizing the opportunity to do things differently: Feminist ideas, policies and actors in UN Women’s ‘Feminist Plan for Sustainability and Social Justice’
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic early in 2020, we have heard global leaders, public intellectuals and civil society activists speaking of a crisis that requires not just ‘building back better’ but rather a radical reconstruction of the pre-pandemic world. Among these, the United Nations (UN) Secretary General has called for a ‘New global Deal’ and a ‘New social contract’ rooted in global solidarity. Such calls contest the idea that t…
Special Section on The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence
Care is so ubiquitous that it easily becomes invisible. As an acute shock that suddenly disrupted multiple dimensions of life, COVID-19 made visible the importance of care, the extent to which economies rely on women’s unpaid and underpaid labor, and the terrible human and economic costs associated with its inadequate and unequal organization. At the same time, the pandemic has provided an opportunity to envision—and to fight for—a better world i…
Presión o legitimación? Poder y alternativas en el diseño y adopción de la reforma de salud en Costa Rica, 1988-1998
La formación de políticas responde a lógicas de presión y legitimación que se combinan de distintas maneras. Este trabajo analiza el diseño y adopción de dos políticas de reforma de salud realizadas en Costa Rica entre 1988 y 1998. El trabajo se pregunta si son los partidos políticos, las instituciones financieras internacionales y las elites tecnoburocráticas sectoriales factores explicativos suficientes. La evidencia empírica sugiere que además…
Welfare Regimes in Latin America: Capturing Constellations of Markets, Families, and Policies
This article presents both a theoretical framework and a methodology that attempt to capture the complex interactions among labor markets, families, and public policy that currently constitute Latin American welfare regimes. Drawing on cluster analysis based on available data for 18 countries, the study identifies three welfare regimes. Two are state welfare regimes: protectionist (e.g. Costa Rica) and productivist (e.g. Chile); one is nonstate f…
The Role of Distributional Coalitions in Welfare Regimes: Chile, Costa Rica and El Salvador
Do social policies in Latin America promote or discourage distribution? And if they do promote distribution, are coalitions a prerequisite? Drawing from a typology of welfare regimes elaborated for 18 Latin American countries, this article explores responses to these questions by addressing three emblematic cases: Chile, Costa Rica and El Salvador – that is, countries where the management of social risks primarily revolves around markets, states …
Actors and ideas behind CCTs in Chile, Costa Rica and El Salvador
Conditional Cash Transfer programs are currently at a crossroads, between consolidating minimum safety nets and laying the basis for universal social policy. In assessing which direction CCTs will take, it is important to analyze their formation. What domestic actors have been influential and how have expert-driven international ideas entered the domestic policy process? Is the impact related to existing welfare regimes? In this article the autho…
Who Cares in Nicaragua? A Care Regime in an Exclusionary Social Policy Context
In Latin American countries with historically strong social policy regimes (such as those in the Southern Cone), neoliberal policies are usually blamed for the increased burden of female unpaid work. However, studying the Nicaraguan care regime in two clearly defined periods - the Sandinista and the neoliberal eras - suggests that this argument may not hold in the case of countries with highly familialist social policy regimes. Despite major econ…
Blacks, Whites, or Grays? Conditional Transfers and Gender Equality in Latin America
Can poverty and gender relations be disentangled? Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs have spread throughout Latin America and beyond based on the claim that they are an effective social policy tool to combat poverty. While changing gender relations is not among CCTs' explicit objectives, gender relations are nonetheless shaped by these policies. Unfortunately, the debate concerning how CCTs shape gender relations has treated gender inequali…
Transferencias Condicionadas E Igualdad De Género: ¿Blancos, Negros O Grises?
¿En qué medida las transferencias condicionadas (TMC), programas “estrella” de la nueva generación de la política social latinoamericana, inhiben o promueven mayores grados de igualdad de género? Usando un instrumento teórico-empírico novedoso, y a partir de fuentes primarias y secundarias, nuestro análisis compara tres países con regímenes de bienestar contrastantes: Chile, Costa Rica y El Salvador. Mostramos que, aunque en términos de la iguald…
Can Latin American Production Regimes Complement Universalistic Welfare Regimes: Implications from the Costa Rican Case
Much of the literature on political economy expects complementarities between (universal) welfare regimes and production regimes. This article draws from Costa Rica's showcase of human development and universalistic social policies to address how the production regime supports and constrains the welfare regime. We show that there were some positive relations between the two regimes at various points but that they were neither fully nor mostly com…
Putting universalism to the service of social justice: Can two-tiered systems be avoided
Maternalism, Co-responsibility, and Social Equity: A Typology of Work-Family Policies
Este documento proporciona un punto de vista conceptual para abordar la complejidad de las políticas involucradas en la conciliación del trabajo remunerado y las responsabilidades familiares. Nuestra tipología clasifica las políticas según cómo intervienen en la relación entre el trabajo remunerado y las relaciones familiares, alternando el trabajo remunerado y no remunerado, transfiriendo el trabajo no remunerado fuera de la familia o formalizan…
Filling in the Missing Link between Universalism and Democracy: The Case of Costa Rica
This article explores a missing link in the recent literature on the formation of social policies: that between democracy and universalism, one desirable yet elusive feature of these policies. We base our argument on a case study of Costa Rica, the most successful case of universalism in Latin America. We proceed by first depicting Costa Rica's peculiar policy architecture, based on the incremental expansion of benefits funded on payroll taxes. T…
The Divergence in Women’s Economic Empowerment: Class and Gender under the Pink Tide1
Since 1990, men’s monopoly over economic resources, a key feature of gender inequality, has been irreversibly eroded across Latin America. Women’s access to income of their own has improved in dramatic ways. The most significant change preceded the Pink Tide years, fueled by structural conditions such as fertility drops and neoliberal policies’ downward pressure on male wages and employment. However, women’s access to resources remained condition…
How did Costa Rica achieve social and market incorporation: Juliana Martínez Franzoni and Diego Sánchez-Ancochea
In 1980, just before the debt crisis and in contrast with the experience of the rest of Latin America, almost all Costa Ricans had formal jobs and high-quality social services. To explain this double social and market incorporation, the present article calls into question the role of land distribution, high-quality public institutions and democracy. Instead of these, it focuses on the State-building process whereby a small emerging elite of busin…
Handbook on Gender and Social Policy
Did recent social policy expansion entail positive changes for women and for gender equality in Latin America? This chapter argues that, overall, this expansion brought good news for women’s visibility as subjects of policy but a more mixed record in whether state programmes reinforced or contributed to alter gender inequality in the region. On the one hand, policy developments increased the proportion of women with their own incomes, improved wo…
Undoing segmentation? Latin American health care policy during the economic boom
For all the agreement regarding the segmented character of Latin America's social policy, few studies define it clearly, let alone suggest exact ways to measure it. This article provides a more precise definition based on a threefold policy output comprising coverage, generosity, and equity. Empirically, the article explores the cross‐national variation in segmentation in health care within Latin America in 2000 and 2013, before and after Latin A…
Health inequalities related to informal employment: Gender and welfare state variations in the Central American region
People engaged in informal employment are not insured by any labour or social protection. Welfare state regimes could affect the relationship between informal employment and health. This study aimed to assess the relationship between informal employment and health status in the non-agricultural working population in Central America, by welfare state regime and gender. Based on a sample of 8680 non-agricultural workers (First Central American Surv…
Growth to Limits of Female Labor Participation in Latin America’s Unequal Care Regime1
Throughout Latin America, legal barriers enabling women to make a living equal to men are largely gone. However, women continue to lag behind men in gaining access to economic resources, and women’s labor participation differs significantly across class lines. Drawing on a policy-based explanation, we argue that a primary reason why the removal of legal barriers is insufficient for women’s economic empowerment due to the presence of a socially un…
Overcoming Segmentation in Social Policy? Comparing New Early Education and Childcare Efforts in Costa Rica and Uruguay
During the late 2000s, Early Child Education and Care (ECEC) became a policy priority for several Latin American countries. Coherent with international ideas yet against the legacy of deep-seated segmentation, the new programs embraced universalist aims. Are countries able to achieve universalism? Why are some countries advancing more than others? This article addresses this question, exploring changes in the policy architectures and policy proce…
Latin American Social Policy Developments in the Twenty-First Century
Pensiones alimentarias y protección social ante la pandemia en América Latina durante el 2020: Oportunidades para superar la desconexión
Este artículo examina la conversación pública y las medidas políticas tomadas en materia de pensiones alimentarias y de transferencias monetarias de emergencia durante los primeros ocho meses de la pandemia en los 19 países de América Latina. Aunque las transferencias alimentarias son un derecho de toda persona menor de edad que no convive con uno de sus progenitores, la enorme mayoría de niños, niñas y adolescentes de esta región no las recibe. …
Imploding and redrawing care regimes in Latin America: Opportunities and challenges for women’s economic empowerment
We provide an overview of the care regime in Latin America and its associated adaptive (market- and family-based) strategies available to women at the bottom and the top of the income distribution. In an effort to convey the high inequality that currently cuts across adaptive and/coping mechanisms in work and care in Latin America, we regularly make comparisons with adaptive strategies to reconcile work and family in European countries. The relat…
Special Section on The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence
Care is so ubiquitous that it easily becomes invisible. As an acute shock that suddenly disrupted multiple dimensions of life, COVID-19 made visible the importance of care, the extent to which economies rely on women’s unpaid and underpaid labor, and the terrible human and economic costs associated with its inadequate and unequal organization. At the same time, the pandemic has provided an opportunity to envision—and to fight for—a better world i…
Understanding the State Regulation of Fatherhood in Latin America: Complementary versus Co-responsible
Fatherhood is a key but missing component of research on welfare regimes. What do states formally demand from fatherhood across Latin America? Using a novel data set of coded legal and policy provisions for 19 Latin American countries, this article offers a conceptual framework to examine state interventions targeting biological, caregiving and breadwinning dimensions of fatherhood. My findings show that, regardless of how robust their social pol…
Seizing the opportunity to do things differently: Feminist ideas, policies and actors in UN Women’s ‘Feminist Plan for Sustainability and Social Justice’
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic early in 2020, we have heard global leaders, public intellectuals and civil society activists speaking of a crisis that requires not just ‘building back better’ but rather a radical reconstruction of the pre-pandemic world. Among these, the United Nations (UN) Secretary General has called for a ‘New global Deal’ and a ‘New social contract’ rooted in global solidarity. Such calls contest the idea that t…
The Covid-19 pandemic and social policy narratives in Costa Rica: The story of a (fleeting) opportunity
Did the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic embolden ideas favourable to inclusive social policy in Latin America? This article addresses that question by examining the emergency cash transfer programme that was implemented in Costa Rica in 2020. Drawing on legislative debates and interviews with senior officials and analysts, the study reveals the fleeting emergence of ideas in favour of expanding non-contributory social protection. The new …
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