LANIC Etext Collection: CLASPO-Documents on Social Policy
Documents on Social Policy is an electronic series featuring papers and conference procedings produced under the auspices of the Center for Latin American Social Policy (CLASPO) of the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies.
Working Papers
Actors and Social Capital
- The Multiple Optic of Interface (PDF, 293K) Norman Long
- The New Social Policies in Latin America y el Development of Citizenship: An Interface Perspective (PDF, 166K) Bryan Roberts (see Spanish version, PDF 174K)
- Ciudadanía, Movimientos Sociales y Mercosur (PDF, 313K) Elizabeth Jelin
- Social Networks, Social Capital, Popular Organizations, And Urban Poverty: A Research Note (PDF, 188K) Bryan Roberts and Patricia Richards
Decentralization and Local Government
- Workshop Synthesis: Decentralization and Social Policy (PDF, 864K)
- The Rights Approach to Local Public Management: Experiences from Brazil (PDF, 453K) Peter Spink
Indigenous Studies
- Indigenous People And The Information Society In Latin America And The Caribbean: A Framework For Action (PDF, 389K) Isabel Hernández (Spanish version PDF, 391K )
Seminar and Conference Summaries
- Workshop on "Decentralization and Social Policy
- Workshop On Urban Governance And Intra-Urban Population Differentials in Latin American Metropolitan Areas (co-organized by the Population Research Center and the Urban Issues Program
Overviews of Social Policy in Latin America
Argentina
- Evolución de la Política Social en la Década de los Noventa (PDF, 930K)
- Políticas Sociales y Pueblos Indígenas
Chile
- Políticas Sociales y de Superación de la Pobreza (PDF, 765K)
- Políticas Sociales y Pueblos Indígenas (PDF, 498K)
Colombia
Peru
- Evolución de la Política Social en la Década de los Noventa (PDF, 785K)
- El Estado Peruano y las Políticas sociales dirigidas a los Pueblos Indígenas en la década de los 90 (PDF, 288K)
Comparative Overviews
- La Evolución de la Política Económica y Social en Argentina, Chile y Perú: Una Visión Comparativa (PDF, 469K) Giancarlo Marchesi
- La descentralización de las políticas sociales en Argentina, Chile y Perú (PDF, 178K) Fernando Santiago
Dissertations, Theses, and Reports
- Coping with Job Insecurity: The Experience of Unemployment in Contemporary Argentina (PDF, 837K) Maria Cristina Bayon
- Making Money From the Bottom-Up: The Clubes del Trueque and Local Development in Argentina (PDF, 750K) Robbin Shea McClanahan
- Cuando yo me reajusté...Vulnerability to Poverty in a Context of Regional Economic Restructuring in Urban Mexico (PDF, 997K) Georgina Rojas-García
- Youth and Social Vulnerability in Argentina Becoming Adults in Contemporary Argentina (PDF, 1.05MB) Gonzalo Saravi
- The Institucional Process of a Education Decentralizacion Policy: The case of Rural Networks of Schools in Peru in 2002 (PDF, 706K) Tania Vasquez
- Piquetes, Cacerolazos, y Asambleas Vecinales: Social Protests in Argentina, 1993-2002 (PDF, 320K) Roberta Villalón
Field Research Reports
- Shifting Discourses: Exploring the Tensions between the Myth of Racial Democracy And the Implementation of Affirmative Action Policies in Brazil (PDF, 486K) Raquel Luciana de Souza, Anthropology
- Communication and Citizenship: Assessing Recent Policies of Racial Inclusion within the Media and Communications Sector in Salvador, Brazil (PDF, 79K) Elena Zoubanova de Jesus, LLILAS
- The Transportation Experiences of the Women of Pudahuel, Santiago (PDF, 200K) Marisa Ballas,CRP
- Qnaab'ila b'ix Qna'b'ila/Our thoughts and our feelings: Maya-Mam women's struggles in San Ildefonso Ixtahuacán (PDF, 153K) Ajb'ee Jiménez, Anthropology
- Evaluation of Technological Needs and Resources at Five Middle Schools in Totonicapan, Guatemala (PDF, 372K) Elias Tzoc, School of Information
- Motherhood, Mobility and the Maquiladora in Mexico: Women's Migration from Veracruz to Reynosa (PDF, 278K) Kristen Petros, LLILAS
- Working and Living Arrangements of Single Mother Households and Social Support in Mexico City (PDF, 120K) Heeju Shin, Sociology
- Local Manifestations of Social and Environmental Policy in the Urban Brazilian Amazon (PDF, 186K) Brenda Baletti, Geography
- Strategies of Social Protection of Lower-Middle Income Groups in Chile (185K) Viviana Salinas, Sociology
- Peruvian Migration to Chile: The Chilean State, NGO's and Immigration Policy (PDF, 174K) Solange Muñoz, LLILAS
- Emigration as a Social Policy? Neoliberalism, State Intervention, and Mexican Migration (PDF, 257K) Roy Germano, Government
- Relaciones entre la Sociedad y el Ambiente en una Comunidad Campesina de Pastores en Huancavelica: Hacia una Política Social para el Desarrollo Rural de las Zonas Altas del Perú (PDF, 327K) Julio Postigo, LLILAS
- A Non Governmental Organization's Contribution To The Peruvian Cultural Industry: The Kunay Case (PDF, 225K) Gabriela Yepes, RTF
- Immigration and Rural Development: An assessment of the impact of immigration on rural communities in Huancavalica, Peru (PDF, 185K) Carolyn Barker, LLILAS
- Citizenship and Government Accountability in the Matanza Riachuelo Basin (PDF, 210K) Daniel Ryan
- NGOs in a Context of Health Reform: Five Hypotheses for Santiago and Montevideo (PDF, 241K) Javier Pereira
- Citizen Participation and Decentralization in Peru (PDF, 269K) Ana Carrión
- Learning from Black Women's Political Activism in Brazil: An Overview of Black Women's Health Reproductive Issues (PDF, 139K) Sonia Santos
- Navigating Clientelist Networks: The Beginnings of a Journey, Neuquen, Argentina 2003 (PDF, 177K) Roberta Villalón
- Women's Participation in the Coordinación de Organizaciones Mapuche (PDF, 129K) Sarah D. Warren
- Spatial Dimensions of Social Policies in Santiago and Montevideo (452K) Javier Pereira
- Forced Displacement in the Pacific Coast of Colombia: The Internal Migration of Afro-Colombians to Bogotá (PDF, 168K) Juan Mejía