Matthew E Carnes
Biographic Data
| ID | 801386 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew E Carnes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew E |
| FAMILY NAME | Carnes |
| SIGNATURE | CARNES M E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgetown University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2093-8533 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 139 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Advancing Women’s and Indigenous Groups’ Educational Achievement
Who benefits when economic costs to the pursuit of higher education are diminished? Can such reforms advance the educational trajectory of historically marginalized groups, including women and indigenous people, or are historic social inequalities replicated in the use of new opportunities? The 2016 Ley de Gratuidad in Chile presents a unique opportunity to examine who benefits and how when the state provides a policy guaranteeing free higher edu…
Explaining New Patterns in Family Leave Policies in Latin America
Recent years have seen the rapid passage and modification of family leave policies in Latin America, a surprising trend, given the region's historically conservative gender norms. This article argues that the rise of new paternity leave policies-as well as the modifications to longer-standing maternity leave policies-reflects contending visions of gender and the family, mediated by the institutions and actors that populate the region's political …
Gender and the Politics of Gradual Change
Assessing an Undergraduate Curriculum
To determine whether our undergraduate curriculum fulfills the pedagogical goals of our department, the authors conducted a semester-long curriculum assessment. This article discusses five main lessons and three lingering questions to demonstrate potential benefits of curriculum assessment and to prompt further disciplinary conversation about how undergraduate teaching should be structured. The overarching lesson, however, is that although studen…
The Challenges of Formalizing Labor in Latin America
The most important question concerning labor in Latin American today is how ... to achieve a meaningful incorporation of all citizens of working age and ability in the workforce
Redefining Who’s ‘In’ and Who’s ‘Out’
How does welfare state expansion reconfigure political coalitions? This paper challenges traditional accounts that pit social policy ‘insiders’, who univocally oppose policy expansion, against ‘outsiders’ who favour it. It argues that labour market vulnerability and partisan cues can play a critical role in shaping the preferences of both insiders and outsiders, and thus produce new pro-expansion coalitions. To test this claim, it employs histori…
Value coalitions and policy change
Since the 2002 Barcelona summit, Germany has been seen as a regional leader in achieving European states’ shared commitment to increase state-funded childcare. Yet Germany’s childcare success has not been homogeneous across its Länder; rather, it has shown remarkable subnational variation, with considerable differences in spending, policy design and coverage. Using panel data analysis and historical narratives, this article provides a theory for …
Explaining the 'Return of the State' in Middle-Income Countries
In recent decades, developing and middle-income countries around the globe have adopted path-breaking reforms to their social protection systems. Latin America has been a pioneer region, expanding the state's commitment on behalf of low-income citizens in key policy areas in many countries. This paper undertakes two tasks. First, it documents the surprising extension of noncontributory social protection policies across many Latin American countri…
Coalitional realignment and the adoption of non-contributory social insurance programmes in Latin America
What explains the recent rise in non-contributory social insurance programmes in Latin America? Since the 1990s, Latin American countries have enacted significant social policy reforms that have supplemented contributory insurance policies with new or expanded non-contributory programmes, financed by general tax revenues. We present a political explanation for this phenomenon, arguing that the process of deindustrialization, and especially the in…
Hooking Workers and Hooking Votes
Labor market dualism-the segmentation of workers between formal, legally protected employment and informal, unprotected status-has long drawn attention from scholars and policymakers in Latin America. This article argues that lasting patterns of economic and political segmentation of workers arose earlier in the region's history than has previously been understood, well before the classic "incorporation" period. Late-nineteenth-century practices …
Measuring the Individual-Level Determinants of Social Insurance Preferences
This study employs an original, nationally representative survey of citizens in Argentina to understand the economic and political factors that shape individual-level preferences for social insurance. In the past two decades, Latin American democracies have undergone significant changes in their social welfare institutions, in some cases dramatically reversing course from previous policies. We develop a theoretical framework to explain how and wh…
Partisanship, C hristianity, and Women in the Legislature
Objective Although the U nited S tates 1993 F amily and M edical L eave A ct is considered meager by international standards, significant variation in family leave policies exists across U . S . states. This article develops a political theory—driven by mobilized interest groups—to explain variation in the duration and pay level of state parental leave policies. Methods Employing four different measures of family leave policy, we use ordinary lea…
The Political Geography of Inequality
Journal Article The Political Geography of Inequality: Regions and Redistribution Get access The Political Geography of Inequality: Regions and Redistribution by Pablo Baramendi. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2012. 320 pp. $99.00. Matthew Carnes Matthew Carnes Georgetown University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 128, Issue 3, Fall 2013, Pages 574–575, https://do…
The Welfare State in Global Perspective
This article studies the welfare state in a global perspective. It argues that the most exciting research opportunities in the study of welfare lie in examining the variation in the politics of social protection in developing economies. It identifies the levels of industrialization and economic openness and views the power resource perspective. Cross-class alliances and state-centered approaches are examined. This article shows that existing lite…
Social Policy in Developing Countries
Drawing on recent work and data on social protection in the developing world, this essay evaluates the current state of the art and suggests several important new lines of research. We first examine the historical origin and evolution of social protection systems in developing countries, arguing that insufficient attention has been paid to the authoritarian roots of developing nations' social policy. As a preliminary effort to remedy this shortco…
Political Stability Under Uncertainty
Acentral puzzle in the comparative politics literature has been why certain societies are able to achieve political stability while others suffer from strife, repression and authoritarian rule. This article applies the solution concept of quantal response equilibrium (QRE) to Weingast's Sovereign-Constituency Co-ordination Game in order to show how our understanding of political stability can be enhanced when uncertainty and limited rationality a…
Social Policy in Developing Countries
Drawing on recent work and data on social protection in the developing world, this essay evaluates the current state of the art and suggests several important new lines of research. We first examine the historical origin and evolution of social protection systems in developing countries, arguing that insufficient attention has been paid to the authoritarian roots of developing nations' social policy. As a preliminary effort to remedy this shortco…
Coalitional realignment and the adoption of non-contributory social insurance programmes in Latin America
What explains the recent rise in non-contributory social insurance programmes in Latin America? Since the 1990s, Latin American countries have enacted significant social policy reforms that have supplemented contributory insurance policies with new or expanded non-contributory programmes, financed by general tax revenues. We present a political explanation for this phenomenon, arguing that the process of deindustrialization, and especially the in…
Explaining the 'Return of the State' in Middle-Income Countries
In recent decades, developing and middle-income countries around the globe have adopted path-breaking reforms to their social protection systems. Latin America has been a pioneer region, expanding the state's commitment on behalf of low-income citizens in key policy areas in many countries. This paper undertakes two tasks. First, it documents the surprising extension of noncontributory social protection policies across many Latin American countri…
Value coalitions and policy change
Since the 2002 Barcelona summit, Germany has been seen as a regional leader in achieving European states’ shared commitment to increase state-funded childcare. Yet Germany’s childcare success has not been homogeneous across its Länder; rather, it has shown remarkable subnational variation, with considerable differences in spending, policy design and coverage. Using panel data analysis and historical narratives, this article provides a theory for …
Assessing an Undergraduate Curriculum
To determine whether our undergraduate curriculum fulfills the pedagogical goals of our department, the authors conducted a semester-long curriculum assessment. This article discusses five main lessons and three lingering questions to demonstrate potential benefits of curriculum assessment and to prompt further disciplinary conversation about how undergraduate teaching should be structured. The overarching lesson, however, is that although studen…
Hooking Workers and Hooking Votes
Labor market dualism-the segmentation of workers between formal, legally protected employment and informal, unprotected status-has long drawn attention from scholars and policymakers in Latin America. This article argues that lasting patterns of economic and political segmentation of workers arose earlier in the region's history than has previously been understood, well before the classic "incorporation" period. Late-nineteenth-century practices …
Partisanship, C hristianity, and Women in the Legislature
Objective Although the U nited S tates 1993 F amily and M edical L eave A ct is considered meager by international standards, significant variation in family leave policies exists across U . S . states. This article develops a political theory—driven by mobilized interest groups—to explain variation in the duration and pay level of state parental leave policies. Methods Employing four different measures of family leave policy, we use ordinary lea…
The Political Geography of Inequality
Journal Article The Political Geography of Inequality: Regions and Redistribution Get access The Political Geography of Inequality: Regions and Redistribution by Pablo Baramendi. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2012. 320 pp. $99.00. Matthew Carnes Matthew Carnes Georgetown University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 128, Issue 3, Fall 2013, Pages 574–575, https://do…
Explaining New Patterns in Family Leave Policies in Latin America
Recent years have seen the rapid passage and modification of family leave policies in Latin America, a surprising trend, given the region's historically conservative gender norms. This article argues that the rise of new paternity leave policies-as well as the modifications to longer-standing maternity leave policies-reflects contending visions of gender and the family, mediated by the institutions and actors that populate the region's political …
Gender and the Politics of Gradual Change
Political Stability Under Uncertainty
Acentral puzzle in the comparative politics literature has been why certain societies are able to achieve political stability while others suffer from strife, repression and authoritarian rule. This article applies the solution concept of quantal response equilibrium (QRE) to Weingast's Sovereign-Constituency Co-ordination Game in order to show how our understanding of political stability can be enhanced when uncertainty and limited rationality a…
The Welfare State in Global Perspective
This article studies the welfare state in a global perspective. It argues that the most exciting research opportunities in the study of welfare lie in examining the variation in the politics of social protection in developing economies. It identifies the levels of industrialization and economic openness and views the power resource perspective. Cross-class alliances and state-centered approaches are examined. This article shows that existing lite…
Social Policy in Developing Countries
Drawing on recent work and data on social protection in the developing world, this essay evaluates the current state of the art and suggests several important new lines of research. We first examine the historical origin and evolution of social protection systems in developing countries, arguing that insufficient attention has been paid to the authoritarian roots of developing nations' social policy. As a preliminary effort to remedy this shortco…
Measuring the Individual-Level Determinants of Social Insurance Preferences
This study employs an original, nationally representative survey of citizens in Argentina to understand the economic and political factors that shape individual-level preferences for social insurance. In the past two decades, Latin American democracies have undergone significant changes in their social welfare institutions, in some cases dramatically reversing course from previous policies. We develop a theoretical framework to explain how and wh…
Partisanship, C hristianity, and Women in the Legislature
Objective Although the U nited S tates 1993 F amily and M edical L eave A ct is considered meager by international standards, significant variation in family leave policies exists across U . S . states. This article develops a political theory—driven by mobilized interest groups—to explain variation in the duration and pay level of state parental leave policies. Methods Employing four different measures of family leave policy, we use ordinary lea…
The Political Geography of Inequality
Journal Article The Political Geography of Inequality: Regions and Redistribution Get access The Political Geography of Inequality: Regions and Redistribution by Pablo Baramendi. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2012. 320 pp. $99.00. Matthew Carnes Matthew Carnes Georgetown University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 128, Issue 3, Fall 2013, Pages 574–575, https://do…
Coalitional realignment and the adoption of non-contributory social insurance programmes in Latin America
What explains the recent rise in non-contributory social insurance programmes in Latin America? Since the 1990s, Latin American countries have enacted significant social policy reforms that have supplemented contributory insurance policies with new or expanded non-contributory programmes, financed by general tax revenues. We present a political explanation for this phenomenon, arguing that the process of deindustrialization, and especially the in…
Hooking Workers and Hooking Votes
Labor market dualism-the segmentation of workers between formal, legally protected employment and informal, unprotected status-has long drawn attention from scholars and policymakers in Latin America. This article argues that lasting patterns of economic and political segmentation of workers arose earlier in the region's history than has previously been understood, well before the classic "incorporation" period. Late-nineteenth-century practices …
Value coalitions and policy change
Since the 2002 Barcelona summit, Germany has been seen as a regional leader in achieving European states’ shared commitment to increase state-funded childcare. Yet Germany’s childcare success has not been homogeneous across its Länder; rather, it has shown remarkable subnational variation, with considerable differences in spending, policy design and coverage. Using panel data analysis and historical narratives, this article provides a theory for …
Explaining the 'Return of the State' in Middle-Income Countries
In recent decades, developing and middle-income countries around the globe have adopted path-breaking reforms to their social protection systems. Latin America has been a pioneer region, expanding the state's commitment on behalf of low-income citizens in key policy areas in many countries. This paper undertakes two tasks. First, it documents the surprising extension of noncontributory social protection policies across many Latin American countri…
Redefining Who’s ‘In’ and Who’s ‘Out’
How does welfare state expansion reconfigure political coalitions? This paper challenges traditional accounts that pit social policy ‘insiders’, who univocally oppose policy expansion, against ‘outsiders’ who favour it. It argues that labour market vulnerability and partisan cues can play a critical role in shaping the preferences of both insiders and outsiders, and thus produce new pro-expansion coalitions. To test this claim, it employs histori…
The Challenges of Formalizing Labor in Latin America
The most important question concerning labor in Latin American today is how ... to achieve a meaningful incorporation of all citizens of working age and ability in the workforce
Assessing an Undergraduate Curriculum
To determine whether our undergraduate curriculum fulfills the pedagogical goals of our department, the authors conducted a semester-long curriculum assessment. This article discusses five main lessons and three lingering questions to demonstrate potential benefits of curriculum assessment and to prompt further disciplinary conversation about how undergraduate teaching should be structured. The overarching lesson, however, is that although studen…
Gender and the Politics of Gradual Change
Explaining New Patterns in Family Leave Policies in Latin America
Recent years have seen the rapid passage and modification of family leave policies in Latin America, a surprising trend, given the region's historically conservative gender norms. This article argues that the rise of new paternity leave policies-as well as the modifications to longer-standing maternity leave policies-reflects contending visions of gender and the family, mediated by the institutions and actors that populate the region's political …
Advancing Women’s and Indigenous Groups’ Educational Achievement
Who benefits when economic costs to the pursuit of higher education are diminished? Can such reforms advance the educational trajectory of historically marginalized groups, including women and indigenous people, or are historic social inequalities replicated in the use of new opportunities? The 2016 Ley de Gratuidad in Chile presents a unique opportunity to examine who benefits and how when the state provides a policy guaranteeing free higher edu…
Political science (15 works) · Economics (13 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Economic growth (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Latin Americans (7 works) · Political economy (7 works) · Demographic economics (5 works)