Gibran Cruz-Martínez
Biographic Data
| ID | 321653 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gibran Cruz-Martínez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gibran |
| FAMILY NAME | Cruz-Martínez |
| SIGNATURE | CRUZ-MARTÍNEZ G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad Complutense de Madrid |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4583-2914 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Universal Basic Income from the ‘Buen Vivir’ Decolonial Perspective
This article interrogates the relationship between Universal Basic Income (UBI) as a policy tool and Buen Vivir as a conceptual framework, interpreting their significance within the domains of sustainable development and socio-environmental justice. Through a critical examination of conventional development paradigms from a decolonial perspective, we identify a substantial lacuna in the extant literature: the imperative to incorporate epistemolog…
Current trends, persistent challenges, and emerging opportunities of social policy implementation in Latin America and Southern Europe
Implementation represents the most crucial step in the policy process; it is at this stage where the hardest battles for policy success are fought. Implementation is also the most complex of the policy cycle stages, with the largest amount of resources and highest number of actors involved in it. In the realm of social policy, outputs and outcomes determined during the implementation stage have a direct impact on the welfare of the population. Ho…
Introduction
Research on the implementation of social policy is scant compared to research on other policy stages. Reasons like the lack of the necessary time and resources to conduct implementation research explains such gap. Yet, without research on implementation, it is impossible to reach comprehensive, deep and accurate understandings of the effects of public interventions on the welfare of the population. This article introduces the special issue on the…
Reforming Long‐Term Care Provision and Work in Post‐Pandemic Times
The COVID‐19 pandemic unveiled and magnified structural challenges of long‐term care (LTC) provision and work across Europe, bringing the need for reforms on the quality‐of‐care provision and work to the fore in several countries. Focusing on the case of Spain, this paper analyses to what extent the window of opportunity opened by the pandemic resulted in structural LTC reform, focusing on the scope and drivers of policy change/continuity. Relyin…
Dualization and Social Policies
This thematic review offers a conceptual and analytical framework to assess, identify, and explain the processes of dualization in labor markets and social protection systems in 21st‐century welfare states. After a brief historical examination of the concept's origins, we review the primary definitions, theories, and typologies developed to explore and measure dualization, connecting the fields of social policy and political economy. Our systemat…
Beyond Emergency Measures
This study examines the effects of the Covid‐19 pandemic on preexisting cash transfers and labor programs across Latin America, analyzing their temporal expansion and identifying the determinants of changes in their generosity and coverage, with a particular focus on the inclusion of informal workers. The research employed two main analytical approaches, (1) inferential statistics ( t ‐tests) to examine program expansion and its temporality acros…
Why do people give to their governments? Lab‐in‐the‐field evidence on the role of norms, social information, and political support
Although factors leading to selfless acts, such as charitable donations, have been a central concern in political sciences, voluntary donations are among the most atypical and less well‐known public revenue‐raising sources. In this article, we explore which factors influence people's donations to their government. We conduct an artefactual field experiment in Peru where subjects anonymously decide how much of an endowment they freely donate to th…
Globalization and Liberalization in Social Policy Expansion
This article examines four potential strategies of the Brazilian welfare system in the face of increasing liberalization and globalization since the 1970s. We test whether liberalization and economic globalization hurt the expansion of social expenditure (the efficiency hypothesis or race to the bottom hypothesis) or whether the welfare system expands as a response to the volatility caused by liberalization and globalization (compensation hypothe…
Have Social Policy Responses to Covid-19 Been Institutionalised
Countries adopted a variety of social policy responses to reduce the social risks exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which in some cases took the form of institutional reforms. The study of the institutionalisation of emergency responses is relevant to understanding if and how a critical juncture, like the one opened by the pandemic, can generate path dependencies or changes that expand or retrench social protection. This state-of-the-art arti…
Introduction
This is an introduction to a themed section titled 'Social Policy Responses and Institutional Reforms in the Pandemic
Covid-19 and Nursing Homes in Decentralized Spain
How did long-term care (LTC) policies and the prevailing governance model affect the working conditions of nursing home workers in Spain during the COVID-19 pandemic? Here, we rely on qualitative analysis of semi-structured interviews and document analysis to answer the research question. The results suggest that lack of coordination between health and social services, underfunding of the LTC system, and the absence of legislative initiatives hav…
Políticas públicas y derechos humanos de las personas mayores. Presentación
El envejecimiento de la población se caracteriza por ser un fenómeno global y no exclusivo de los países más desarrollados. La feminización del envejecimiento es también global y tiene repercusiones en los ámbitos de la salud, la seguridad económica y los cuidados de largo plazo o larga duración. Estas tres áreas, señaladas por Naciones Unidas como prioritarias en relación a las personas mayores (junto a los medioambientes favorables) han sido es…
La coordinación institucional durante la pandemia de Covid-19
La pandemia ha supuesto un gran desafío para federaciones y sistemas multinivel, debido al alto grado de coordinación institucional requerido para combatir al virus. En el ámbito específico de los cuidados de larga duración, la fragmentación entre sanidad y servicios sociales en muchos países ha dificultado la respuesta a la amenaza que la COVID-19 ha supuesto para las personas mayores institucionalizadas. Este artículo analiza la respuesta de Es…
Introducing Alternautas 2.0
We are delighted to launch the new OJS version of Alternautas, hosted by the University of Warwick. The first iteration of Alternautas began as a rigorous peer-reviewed blog designed to widen the circulation of knowledge produced by the global South about the global South. It was forged in the fires of the pink tide governments – progressive governments in power across Latin America during the first decade or so of the twenty-first century – and …
The Making of Caribbean Not-so-Natural Disasters
Hurricanes are not a novelty in the Caribbean. However, 2017 left several shocking facts for history books regarding intensity and frequency. Two Category 4 and two Category 5 hurricanes – the strongest category on the Saffir-Simpson scale – hit the Caribbean in a month's-time. Despite the label ‘natural disaster’, colonialism and human-induced factors are behind the high levels of inequality, climate change and incomplete recoveries in the Carib…
Patient mobility within national borders. Drivers and politics of cross-border healthcare agreements in the Spanish decentralized system
Universal Social Pensions Are Unaffordable … Not! Testing the Unaffordability Hypothesis in Latin America and the Caribbean
Is universal social assistance unaffordable? Targeting social policy has been praised as a magic solution to select the ‘deserving poor’ and efficiently use the scarce resources in the Global South. The article tests the unaffordability hypothesis using five counterfactual analyses based on expenditure redirection (military expenditure, energy subsidies, and the potential illegal/odious external debt servicing) and increasing tax revenues (income…
Mapping Welfare State Development in (post) Neoliberal Latin America
Digital Storytelling Project as a Way to Engage Students in Twenty-First Century Skills Learning
This paper is focused on the implications of a collaborative digital storytelling project on student engagement in the higher education context. The empirical study is conducted with an interdisciplinary group of bachelor students in a Nordic University (N = 22) and a university in Southern Europe (N = 21), and the data are collected through an online student survey. The results demonstrate that the digital storytelling project supported students…
Older‐Age Social Pensions and Poverty
Whether social protection benefits should be assigned to all (universal) or kept only for those who meet specific criteria (targeting) remains one of the most contentious questions in social policy research. The purpose of this article is to revisit three assumptions on the two main social policy options for the provision of social benefits to older persons. Each assumption is assessed through counterfactual reasoning using a combination of liter…
Rethinking universalism
This article criticises the social policy literature for equating universalism to the universal coverage of citizens. The current so-called ‘universal’ social protection systems guarantee social citizen rights, while the revisited truly universalism guarantees social human rights for everyone. Crisp-set qualitative comparative analysis (csQCA) is used to map and track the level of exclusiveness or inclusiveness into social pensions in the existin…
Welfare and Social Protection in Contemporary Latin America
Social protection serves as an important development tool, helping to alleviate deprivation, reduce social risks, raise household income and develop human capital. This book brings together an interdisciplinary team of international experts to analyse social protection systems and welfare regimes across contemporary Latin America. The book starts with a section tracking the expansion of social assistance and social insurance in Latin America thro…
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A Bottom-up picture of intra-national welfare regimes
The main purpose of this article is twofold: (1) an examination of welfare regimes using a bottom-up approach, which enables a comprehensive analysis of welfare production based on recipients perceptions; and (2) an examination of more than one type of welfare-mix coexisting inside the national level across policy sectors. A classification of welfare regimes is carried out following a bottom-up approach and relying on the basis of the importance …
Is there a Common Path that could have Conditioned the Degree of Welfare State Development in Latin America and the Caribbean
The purpose of this paper is to re-examine from a multidimensional perspective the possible existence of a single path that could have conditioned the degree of welfare state development (WSD) in Latin America. Economic/industrial development, trade-openness, democracy and the strength of leftist parties-labour movement are used as explanatory variables in the qualitative comparative analysis. In contrast to previous findings, this paper shows th…
Mapping Welfare State Development in (post) Neoliberal Latin America
Welfare State Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (1970s–2000s)
Welfare State Development, Individual Deprivations and Income Inequality
Is there a Common Path that could have Conditioned the Degree of Welfare State Development in Latin America and the Caribbean
The purpose of this paper is to re-examine from a multidimensional perspective the possible existence of a single path that could have conditioned the degree of welfare state development (WSD) in Latin America. Economic/industrial development, trade-openness, democracy and the strength of leftist parties-labour movement are used as explanatory variables in the qualitative comparative analysis. In contrast to previous findings, this paper shows th…
Rethinking universalism
This article criticises the social policy literature for equating universalism to the universal coverage of citizens. The current so-called ‘universal’ social protection systems guarantee social citizen rights, while the revisited truly universalism guarantees social human rights for everyone. Crisp-set qualitative comparative analysis (csQCA) is used to map and track the level of exclusiveness or inclusiveness into social pensions in the existin…
A Bottom-up picture of intra-national welfare regimes
The main purpose of this article is twofold: (1) an examination of welfare regimes using a bottom-up approach, which enables a comprehensive analysis of welfare production based on recipients perceptions; and (2) an examination of more than one type of welfare-mix coexisting inside the national level across policy sectors. A classification of welfare regimes is carried out following a bottom-up approach and relying on the basis of the importance …
Have Social Policy Responses to Covid-19 Been Institutionalised
Countries adopted a variety of social policy responses to reduce the social risks exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which in some cases took the form of institutional reforms. The study of the institutionalisation of emergency responses is relevant to understanding if and how a critical juncture, like the one opened by the pandemic, can generate path dependencies or changes that expand or retrench social protection. This state-of-the-art arti…
Covid-19 and Nursing Homes in Decentralized Spain
How did long-term care (LTC) policies and the prevailing governance model affect the working conditions of nursing home workers in Spain during the COVID-19 pandemic? Here, we rely on qualitative analysis of semi-structured interviews and document analysis to answer the research question. The results suggest that lack of coordination between health and social services, underfunding of the LTC system, and the absence of legislative initiatives hav…
Políticas públicas y derechos humanos de las personas mayores. Presentación
El envejecimiento de la población se caracteriza por ser un fenómeno global y no exclusivo de los países más desarrollados. La feminización del envejecimiento es también global y tiene repercusiones en los ámbitos de la salud, la seguridad económica y los cuidados de largo plazo o larga duración. Estas tres áreas, señaladas por Naciones Unidas como prioritarias en relación a las personas mayores (junto a los medioambientes favorables) han sido es…
Older‐Age Social Pensions and Poverty
Whether social protection benefits should be assigned to all (universal) or kept only for those who meet specific criteria (targeting) remains one of the most contentious questions in social policy research. The purpose of this article is to revisit three assumptions on the two main social policy options for the provision of social benefits to older persons. Each assumption is assessed through counterfactual reasoning using a combination of liter…
Esfuerzo de bienestar y Pobreza desde el enfoque monetarista y de capacidades
Existe una abundante evidencia empírica sobre la relación negativa entre el esfuerzo de bienestar y la pobreza. Sin embargo, los indicadores de pobreza tradicionalmente utilizados han sido representativos del enfoque monetarista, inhibiendo del análisis su realidad multidimensional. Además el análisis trasnacional en América Latina y el Caribe entre las variables ha excluido generalmente factores demográficos y cíclicos. Utilizando tres técnicas …
Globalization and Liberalization in Social Policy Expansion
This article examines four potential strategies of the Brazilian welfare system in the face of increasing liberalization and globalization since the 1970s. We test whether liberalization and economic globalization hurt the expansion of social expenditure (the efficiency hypothesis or race to the bottom hypothesis) or whether the welfare system expands as a response to the volatility caused by liberalization and globalization (compensation hypothe…
La coordinación institucional durante la pandemia de Covid-19
La pandemia ha supuesto un gran desafío para federaciones y sistemas multinivel, debido al alto grado de coordinación institucional requerido para combatir al virus. En el ámbito específico de los cuidados de larga duración, la fragmentación entre sanidad y servicios sociales en muchos países ha dificultado la respuesta a la amenaza que la COVID-19 ha supuesto para las personas mayores institucionalizadas. Este artículo analiza la respuesta de Es…
Digital Storytelling Project as a Way to Engage Students in Twenty-First Century Skills Learning
This paper is focused on the implications of a collaborative digital storytelling project on student engagement in the higher education context. The empirical study is conducted with an interdisciplinary group of bachelor students in a Nordic University (N = 22) and a university in Southern Europe (N = 21), and the data are collected through an online student survey. The results demonstrate that the digital storytelling project supported students…
Welfare State Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (1970s–2000s)
Goyng Beyond Aggregated Measures in the Conditional Cash Transfer Programs
The purpose of this paper is to present two alternative indicators in order to rethink and reevaluate the coverage of the conditional cash transfer programs (CCTs) in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). The term effective coverage, introduced by the World Health Organization, was used as a reference to adjust the aggregate indicators on the ECLAC database taking into account the target population of the programs. (1) Effective coverage of bene…
Esfuerzo de bienestar y Pobreza desde el enfoque monetarista y de capacidades
Existe una abundante evidencia empírica sobre la relación negativa entre el esfuerzo de bienestar y la pobreza. Sin embargo, los indicadores de pobreza tradicionalmente utilizados han sido representativos del enfoque monetarista, inhibiendo del análisis su realidad multidimensional. Además el análisis trasnacional en América Latina y el Caribe entre las variables ha excluido generalmente factores demográficos y cíclicos. Utilizando tres técnicas …
Is there a Common Path that could have Conditioned the Degree of Welfare State Development in Latin America and the Caribbean
The purpose of this paper is to re-examine from a multidimensional perspective the possible existence of a single path that could have conditioned the degree of welfare state development (WSD) in Latin America. Economic/industrial development, trade-openness, democracy and the strength of leftist parties-labour movement are used as explanatory variables in the qualitative comparative analysis. In contrast to previous findings, this paper shows th…
Welfare State Development, Individual Deprivations and Income Inequality
Some Useful Sources
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
A Bottom-up picture of intra-national welfare regimes
The main purpose of this article is twofold: (1) an examination of welfare regimes using a bottom-up approach, which enables a comprehensive analysis of welfare production based on recipients perceptions; and (2) an examination of more than one type of welfare-mix coexisting inside the national level across policy sectors. A classification of welfare regimes is carried out following a bottom-up approach and relying on the basis of the importance …
Older‐Age Social Pensions and Poverty
Whether social protection benefits should be assigned to all (universal) or kept only for those who meet specific criteria (targeting) remains one of the most contentious questions in social policy research. The purpose of this article is to revisit three assumptions on the two main social policy options for the provision of social benefits to older persons. Each assumption is assessed through counterfactual reasoning using a combination of liter…
Rethinking universalism
This article criticises the social policy literature for equating universalism to the universal coverage of citizens. The current so-called ‘universal’ social protection systems guarantee social citizen rights, while the revisited truly universalism guarantees social human rights for everyone. Crisp-set qualitative comparative analysis (csQCA) is used to map and track the level of exclusiveness or inclusiveness into social pensions in the existin…
Welfare and Social Protection in Contemporary Latin America
Social protection serves as an important development tool, helping to alleviate deprivation, reduce social risks, raise household income and develop human capital. This book brings together an interdisciplinary team of international experts to analyse social protection systems and welfare regimes across contemporary Latin America. The book starts with a section tracking the expansion of social assistance and social insurance in Latin America thro…
Digital Storytelling Project as a Way to Engage Students in Twenty-First Century Skills Learning
This paper is focused on the implications of a collaborative digital storytelling project on student engagement in the higher education context. The empirical study is conducted with an interdisciplinary group of bachelor students in a Nordic University (N = 22) and a university in Southern Europe (N = 21), and the data are collected through an online student survey. The results demonstrate that the digital storytelling project supported students…
Universal Social Pensions Are Unaffordable … Not! Testing the Unaffordability Hypothesis in Latin America and the Caribbean
Is universal social assistance unaffordable? Targeting social policy has been praised as a magic solution to select the ‘deserving poor’ and efficiently use the scarce resources in the Global South. The article tests the unaffordability hypothesis using five counterfactual analyses based on expenditure redirection (military expenditure, energy subsidies, and the potential illegal/odious external debt servicing) and increasing tax revenues (income…
Mapping Welfare State Development in (post) Neoliberal Latin America
Introducing Alternautas 2.0
We are delighted to launch the new OJS version of Alternautas, hosted by the University of Warwick. The first iteration of Alternautas began as a rigorous peer-reviewed blog designed to widen the circulation of knowledge produced by the global South about the global South. It was forged in the fires of the pink tide governments – progressive governments in power across Latin America during the first decade or so of the twenty-first century – and …
The Making of Caribbean Not-so-Natural Disasters
Hurricanes are not a novelty in the Caribbean. However, 2017 left several shocking facts for history books regarding intensity and frequency. Two Category 4 and two Category 5 hurricanes – the strongest category on the Saffir-Simpson scale – hit the Caribbean in a month's-time. Despite the label ‘natural disaster’, colonialism and human-induced factors are behind the high levels of inequality, climate change and incomplete recoveries in the Carib…
Patient mobility within national borders. Drivers and politics of cross-border healthcare agreements in the Spanish decentralized system
Have Social Policy Responses to Covid-19 Been Institutionalised
Countries adopted a variety of social policy responses to reduce the social risks exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which in some cases took the form of institutional reforms. The study of the institutionalisation of emergency responses is relevant to understanding if and how a critical juncture, like the one opened by the pandemic, can generate path dependencies or changes that expand or retrench social protection. This state-of-the-art arti…
Introduction
This is an introduction to a themed section titled 'Social Policy Responses and Institutional Reforms in the Pandemic
Covid-19 and Nursing Homes in Decentralized Spain
How did long-term care (LTC) policies and the prevailing governance model affect the working conditions of nursing home workers in Spain during the COVID-19 pandemic? Here, we rely on qualitative analysis of semi-structured interviews and document analysis to answer the research question. The results suggest that lack of coordination between health and social services, underfunding of the LTC system, and the absence of legislative initiatives hav…
Políticas públicas y derechos humanos de las personas mayores. Presentación
El envejecimiento de la población se caracteriza por ser un fenómeno global y no exclusivo de los países más desarrollados. La feminización del envejecimiento es también global y tiene repercusiones en los ámbitos de la salud, la seguridad económica y los cuidados de largo plazo o larga duración. Estas tres áreas, señaladas por Naciones Unidas como prioritarias en relación a las personas mayores (junto a los medioambientes favorables) han sido es…
La coordinación institucional durante la pandemia de Covid-19
La pandemia ha supuesto un gran desafío para federaciones y sistemas multinivel, debido al alto grado de coordinación institucional requerido para combatir al virus. En el ámbito específico de los cuidados de larga duración, la fragmentación entre sanidad y servicios sociales en muchos países ha dificultado la respuesta a la amenaza que la COVID-19 ha supuesto para las personas mayores institucionalizadas. Este artículo analiza la respuesta de Es…
Why do people give to their governments? Lab‐in‐the‐field evidence on the role of norms, social information, and political support
Although factors leading to selfless acts, such as charitable donations, have been a central concern in political sciences, voluntary donations are among the most atypical and less well‐known public revenue‐raising sources. In this article, we explore which factors influence people's donations to their government. We conduct an artefactual field experiment in Peru where subjects anonymously decide how much of an endowment they freely donate to th…
Globalization and Liberalization in Social Policy Expansion
This article examines four potential strategies of the Brazilian welfare system in the face of increasing liberalization and globalization since the 1970s. We test whether liberalization and economic globalization hurt the expansion of social expenditure (the efficiency hypothesis or race to the bottom hypothesis) or whether the welfare system expands as a response to the volatility caused by liberalization and globalization (compensation hypothe…
Universal Basic Income from the ‘Buen Vivir’ Decolonial Perspective
This article interrogates the relationship between Universal Basic Income (UBI) as a policy tool and Buen Vivir as a conceptual framework, interpreting their significance within the domains of sustainable development and socio-environmental justice. Through a critical examination of conventional development paradigms from a decolonial perspective, we identify a substantial lacuna in the extant literature: the imperative to incorporate epistemolog…
Current trends, persistent challenges, and emerging opportunities of social policy implementation in Latin America and Southern Europe
Implementation represents the most crucial step in the policy process; it is at this stage where the hardest battles for policy success are fought. Implementation is also the most complex of the policy cycle stages, with the largest amount of resources and highest number of actors involved in it. In the realm of social policy, outputs and outcomes determined during the implementation stage have a direct impact on the welfare of the population. Ho…
Political science (23 works) · Economics (14 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (13 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (11 works) · Economic growth (9 works) · Latin Americans (9 works) · Welfare (9 works) · Social policy (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Development economics (7 works)