Melina Altamirano
Biographic Data
| ID | 336348 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melina Altamirano |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melina |
| FAMILY NAME | Altamirano |
| SIGNATURE | ALTAMIRANO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | El Colegio de México |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3676-2838 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Family and Early Childhood Education Policies in Latin America: Advances and Challenges in Segmented Welfare Regimes
Delegated Governance in Segmented Welfare Regimes: How Non‐State Provision Shaped Childcare Policy Outcomes in Mexico
What are the implications of delegated provision for social policy outcomes in fragmented welfare regimes? Recent childcare policy reforms in Latin America have occurred in contexts characterised by deep segmentation and dualised labour markets, resulting in policies with varying models of service provision. I analyse how the delegation model to non‐state providers shapes crucial outcomes of public services. Using the case of the expansion of the…
Security or Social Spending? Perceptions of Insecurity, Victimization, and Policy Priorities in Mexico and Brazil
In Latin America, deep social inequalities coexist with persistent, high-level criminal violence. Facing competing needs and budget constraints, citizens in the region have to prioritize among different policy choices. We analyze how perceptions of insecurity and crime victimization shape attitudes toward budgetary priorities in social and security policies. Our analysis relies on original data from Mexico and Brazil, two countries exhibiting inc…
Varieties of Economic Vulnerability: Evidence on Social Policy Preferences and Labor Informality from Mexico
In many Latin American countries, social policy preferences among economically vulnerable citizens seem largely unpolarized. However, current studies rarely confront citizens with realistic policy options and often lack the required detail to capture the heterogeneity of economic vulnerability. Drawing on the dualization debate, we expect individuals facing different degrees of vulnerability to show distinct social policy preferences. Using origi…
The Welfare State amid Crime: How Victimization and Perceptions of Insecurity Affect Social Policy Preferences in Latin America and the Caribbean
Criminal violence is one of the most pressing problems in Latin America and the Caribbean, with profound political consequences. Its effects on social policy preferences, however, remain largely unexplored. This article argues that to understand such effects it is crucial to analyze victimization experiences and perceptions of insecurity as separate phenomena with distinct attitudinal consequences. Heightened perceptions of insecurity are associa…
Economic Vulnerability and Partisanship in Latin America
A significant proportion of the population in Latin America depends on the informal economy and lacks adequate protection against a variety of economic risks. This article suggests that economic vulnerability affects the way individuals relate to political parties. Given the truncated structure of welfare states in the region, citizens in the informal sector receive lower levels of social security benefits and face higher economic uncertainty. Th…
The Origins of Dualism
From Spain and Greece to Brazil and South Africa, dualized labor markets are a worldwide phenomenon. In many countries, workers are divided between those with permanent contracts that include valuable benefits and extensive labor market protections and those who work under contingent contracts or no contracts at all. This latter group receives few or no labor market protections and lower levels of social benefits. They are the world's labor marke…
The Welfare State amid Crime: How Victimization and Perceptions of Insecurity Affect Social Policy Preferences in Latin America and the Caribbean
Criminal violence is one of the most pressing problems in Latin America and the Caribbean, with profound political consequences. Its effects on social policy preferences, however, remain largely unexplored. This article argues that to understand such effects it is crucial to analyze victimization experiences and perceptions of insecurity as separate phenomena with distinct attitudinal consequences. Heightened perceptions of insecurity are associa…
Economic Vulnerability and Partisanship in Latin America
A significant proportion of the population in Latin America depends on the informal economy and lacks adequate protection against a variety of economic risks. This article suggests that economic vulnerability affects the way individuals relate to political parties. Given the truncated structure of welfare states in the region, citizens in the informal sector receive lower levels of social security benefits and face higher economic uncertainty. Th…
Security or Social Spending? Perceptions of Insecurity, Victimization, and Policy Priorities in Mexico and Brazil
In Latin America, deep social inequalities coexist with persistent, high-level criminal violence. Facing competing needs and budget constraints, citizens in the region have to prioritize among different policy choices. We analyze how perceptions of insecurity and crime victimization shape attitudes toward budgetary priorities in social and security policies. Our analysis relies on original data from Mexico and Brazil, two countries exhibiting inc…
Varieties of Economic Vulnerability: Evidence on Social Policy Preferences and Labor Informality from Mexico
In many Latin American countries, social policy preferences among economically vulnerable citizens seem largely unpolarized. However, current studies rarely confront citizens with realistic policy options and often lack the required detail to capture the heterogeneity of economic vulnerability. Drawing on the dualization debate, we expect individuals facing different degrees of vulnerability to show distinct social policy preferences. Using origi…
The Origins of Dualism
From Spain and Greece to Brazil and South Africa, dualized labor markets are a worldwide phenomenon. In many countries, workers are divided between those with permanent contracts that include valuable benefits and extensive labor market protections and those who work under contingent contracts or no contracts at all. This latter group receives few or no labor market protections and lower levels of social benefits. They are the world's labor marke…
Economic Vulnerability and Partisanship in Latin America
A significant proportion of the population in Latin America depends on the informal economy and lacks adequate protection against a variety of economic risks. This article suggests that economic vulnerability affects the way individuals relate to political parties. Given the truncated structure of welfare states in the region, citizens in the informal sector receive lower levels of social security benefits and face higher economic uncertainty. Th…
The Welfare State amid Crime: How Victimization and Perceptions of Insecurity Affect Social Policy Preferences in Latin America and the Caribbean
Criminal violence is one of the most pressing problems in Latin America and the Caribbean, with profound political consequences. Its effects on social policy preferences, however, remain largely unexplored. This article argues that to understand such effects it is crucial to analyze victimization experiences and perceptions of insecurity as separate phenomena with distinct attitudinal consequences. Heightened perceptions of insecurity are associa…
Varieties of Economic Vulnerability: Evidence on Social Policy Preferences and Labor Informality from Mexico
In many Latin American countries, social policy preferences among economically vulnerable citizens seem largely unpolarized. However, current studies rarely confront citizens with realistic policy options and often lack the required detail to capture the heterogeneity of economic vulnerability. Drawing on the dualization debate, we expect individuals facing different degrees of vulnerability to show distinct social policy preferences. Using origi…
Security or Social Spending? Perceptions of Insecurity, Victimization, and Policy Priorities in Mexico and Brazil
In Latin America, deep social inequalities coexist with persistent, high-level criminal violence. Facing competing needs and budget constraints, citizens in the region have to prioritize among different policy choices. We analyze how perceptions of insecurity and crime victimization shape attitudes toward budgetary priorities in social and security policies. Our analysis relies on original data from Mexico and Brazil, two countries exhibiting inc…
Family and Early Childhood Education Policies in Latin America: Advances and Challenges in Segmented Welfare Regimes
Delegated Governance in Segmented Welfare Regimes: How Non‐State Provision Shaped Childcare Policy Outcomes in Mexico
What are the implications of delegated provision for social policy outcomes in fragmented welfare regimes? Recent childcare policy reforms in Latin America have occurred in contexts characterised by deep segmentation and dualised labour markets, resulting in policies with varying models of service provision. I analyse how the delegation model to non‐state providers shapes crucial outcomes of public services. Using the case of the expansion of the…
Economics (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Latin Americans (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Welfare (4 works) · Welfare state (4 works) · Development economics (3 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (3 works) · Law (3 works)