Lucy Luccisano
Biographic Data
| ID | 3469109 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lucy Luccisano |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lucy |
| FAMILY NAME | Luccisano |
| SIGNATURE | LUCCISANO L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wilfrid Laurier University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4079-3290 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Neoliberal Populism in Ontario: Premier Doug Ford’s Strategic Politics
The 2018 election of Premier Doug Ford and the Progressive Conservative (PC) government ushered in a new era of neoliberal populism in Ontario, Canada. Ford’s election platform, titled a “Plan for the People,” resonated with the business elite who supported his free-market reforms but also with middle-class and blue-collar workers living in suburban and northern areas of the province. The article examines how Ford positioned his rivals as “out of…
Struggles over city-making: The community program for neighborhood improvement in Mexico City
This article traces the trajectory of the making and unmaking of the Community Program for Neighborhood Improvement (PCMB), a participatory program for upgrading social infrastructure and public spaces in marginalized neighborhoods of Mexico City. The PCMB is an example of the range of upgrading programs supported by progressive local governments throughout Latin America over the past 20 years. Proposed by the city's urban popular movement as par…
Mexico and social provision by the federal government and the federal district: Obstacles and openings to a Social Protection Floor
This article examines the lessons that can be drawn from social protection programs in Mexico at both the national and sub-national scales for the Social Protection Floor (SPF) initiative for the implementation of the Global Social Floor proposal in Mexico. Mexico’s federal anti-poverty program, Progresa/Oportunidades, was a pioneer in the application of a social investment paradigm to the provision of social benefits to the extreme poor, and the…
Le néolibéralisme, le semi-clientélisme et la théorie politique de l’échelle dans les mesures anti-pauvreté mexicaines1
Cet article examine les répercussions des politiques multidimensionnelles des mesures anti-pauvreté mexicaines sur le processus de démocratisation à long terme. La mesure anti-pauvreté fédérale Progresa / Oportunidades a été conçue pour éliminer les pratiques clientélistes traditionnelles. Même si plusieurs pratiques électoralistes flagrantes ont été éliminées des programmes de lutte contre la pauvreté, la continuation des approches descendantes …
Comparing Public Social Provision and Citizenship in the United States, Canada, and Mexico: Are There Implications for a North American Space
This study compares the reform of public social provision in the United States, Canada, and Mexico from 1996 to 2006. It highlights important parallels among the three countries in terms of policy design, discourses that frame each policy, and the ways social citizenship has become reconfigured. We argue that in all three cases, poor women/mothers are being regulated, monitored, and held accountable through surveillance and sanctions, reinforcing…
The MexicanOportunidadesProgram: Questioning the Linking of Security to Conditional Social Investments for Mothers and Children
The article examines the ways in which the Mexican Oportunidades program, a neo-liberal social investment program, is applied in Mexico. It comments on both the efficacy of the program and the ways in which motherhood and citizenship are redefined. The Oportunidades program is a conditional cash transfer program that provides money for nutrition and educational scholarships to poor mothers on condition that the funds are used toward enhancing the…
Mexico's Progresa Program (1997-2000): An Example of Neo-Liberal Poverty Alleviation Programs Concerned with Gender, Human Capital Development, Responsibility and Choice
This paper examines Mexico's Program for Education, Health and Nutrition (Progresa), as an example of neo-liberal trends influencing poverty alleviation initiatives. The stated goal of the program was to break the intergenerational cycles of poverty. This end was to be achieved by investing in the basic capacities of the poor, particularly poor women and their children. Basic capacities were to be developed through cash transfers for improved nut…
Mexico's Progresa Program (1997-2000): An Example of Neo-Liberal Poverty Alleviation Programs Concerned with Gender, Human Capital Development, Responsibility and Choice
This paper examines Mexico's Program for Education, Health and Nutrition (Progresa), as an example of neo-liberal trends influencing poverty alleviation initiatives. The stated goal of the program was to break the intergenerational cycles of poverty. This end was to be achieved by investing in the basic capacities of the poor, particularly poor women and their children. Basic capacities were to be developed through cash transfers for improved nut…
The MexicanOportunidadesProgram: Questioning the Linking of Security to Conditional Social Investments for Mothers and Children
The article examines the ways in which the Mexican Oportunidades program, a neo-liberal social investment program, is applied in Mexico. It comments on both the efficacy of the program and the ways in which motherhood and citizenship are redefined. The Oportunidades program is a conditional cash transfer program that provides money for nutrition and educational scholarships to poor mothers on condition that the funds are used toward enhancing the…
Struggles over city-making: The community program for neighborhood improvement in Mexico City
This article traces the trajectory of the making and unmaking of the Community Program for Neighborhood Improvement (PCMB), a participatory program for upgrading social infrastructure and public spaces in marginalized neighborhoods of Mexico City. The PCMB is an example of the range of upgrading programs supported by progressive local governments throughout Latin America over the past 20 years. Proposed by the city's urban popular movement as par…
Mexico and social provision by the federal government and the federal district: Obstacles and openings to a Social Protection Floor
This article examines the lessons that can be drawn from social protection programs in Mexico at both the national and sub-national scales for the Social Protection Floor (SPF) initiative for the implementation of the Global Social Floor proposal in Mexico. Mexico’s federal anti-poverty program, Progresa/Oportunidades, was a pioneer in the application of a social investment paradigm to the provision of social benefits to the extreme poor, and the…
Comparing Public Social Provision and Citizenship in the United States, Canada, and Mexico: Are There Implications for a North American Space
This study compares the reform of public social provision in the United States, Canada, and Mexico from 1996 to 2006. It highlights important parallels among the three countries in terms of policy design, discourses that frame each policy, and the ways social citizenship has become reconfigured. We argue that in all three cases, poor women/mothers are being regulated, monitored, and held accountable through surveillance and sanctions, reinforcing…
Mexico's Progresa Program (1997-2000): An Example of Neo-Liberal Poverty Alleviation Programs Concerned with Gender, Human Capital Development, Responsibility and Choice
This paper examines Mexico's Program for Education, Health and Nutrition (Progresa), as an example of neo-liberal trends influencing poverty alleviation initiatives. The stated goal of the program was to break the intergenerational cycles of poverty. This end was to be achieved by investing in the basic capacities of the poor, particularly poor women and their children. Basic capacities were to be developed through cash transfers for improved nut…
The MexicanOportunidadesProgram: Questioning the Linking of Security to Conditional Social Investments for Mothers and Children
The article examines the ways in which the Mexican Oportunidades program, a neo-liberal social investment program, is applied in Mexico. It comments on both the efficacy of the program and the ways in which motherhood and citizenship are redefined. The Oportunidades program is a conditional cash transfer program that provides money for nutrition and educational scholarships to poor mothers on condition that the funds are used toward enhancing the…
Comparing Public Social Provision and Citizenship in the United States, Canada, and Mexico: Are There Implications for a North American Space
This study compares the reform of public social provision in the United States, Canada, and Mexico from 1996 to 2006. It highlights important parallels among the three countries in terms of policy design, discourses that frame each policy, and the ways social citizenship has become reconfigured. We argue that in all three cases, poor women/mothers are being regulated, monitored, and held accountable through surveillance and sanctions, reinforcing…
Le néolibéralisme, le semi-clientélisme et la théorie politique de l’échelle dans les mesures anti-pauvreté mexicaines1
Cet article examine les répercussions des politiques multidimensionnelles des mesures anti-pauvreté mexicaines sur le processus de démocratisation à long terme. La mesure anti-pauvreté fédérale Progresa / Oportunidades a été conçue pour éliminer les pratiques clientélistes traditionnelles. Même si plusieurs pratiques électoralistes flagrantes ont été éliminées des programmes de lutte contre la pauvreté, la continuation des approches descendantes …
Mexico and social provision by the federal government and the federal district: Obstacles and openings to a Social Protection Floor
This article examines the lessons that can be drawn from social protection programs in Mexico at both the national and sub-national scales for the Social Protection Floor (SPF) initiative for the implementation of the Global Social Floor proposal in Mexico. Mexico’s federal anti-poverty program, Progresa/Oportunidades, was a pioneer in the application of a social investment paradigm to the provision of social benefits to the extreme poor, and the…
Neoliberal Populism in Ontario: Premier Doug Ford’s Strategic Politics
The 2018 election of Premier Doug Ford and the Progressive Conservative (PC) government ushered in a new era of neoliberal populism in Ontario, Canada. Ford’s election platform, titled a “Plan for the People,” resonated with the business elite who supported his free-market reforms but also with middle-class and blue-collar workers living in suburban and northern areas of the province. The article examines how Ford positioned his rivals as “out of…
Struggles over city-making: The community program for neighborhood improvement in Mexico City
This article traces the trajectory of the making and unmaking of the Community Program for Neighborhood Improvement (PCMB), a participatory program for upgrading social infrastructure and public spaces in marginalized neighborhoods of Mexico City. The PCMB is an example of the range of upgrading programs supported by progressive local governments throughout Latin America over the past 20 years. Proposed by the city's urban popular movement as par…
Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Public Administration (4 works) · Public Administration (4 works) · Citizenship (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (3 works)