Regional Organizations and Social Policy in Europe and Latin America [electronic resource] : A Space for Social Citizenship? /
Bianculli, Andrea C.editor.
Ribeiro Hoffmann, Andrea.editor.
The contributors assess to what extent regional organizations in Europe and Latin America provide a space for the regulation and provision of social policies in the area of social protection, higher education and health. They analyse the impact of regional organizations on social citizenship following political struggle and contestation.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Notes on Contributors; List of Abbreviations and Acronyms; 1 Regional Organizations and Social Policy: The Missing Link; Part I: Contextualizing Social Policy in Regional Governance: Trade and Investment Agreements, Structural Funds and Development Banks; 2 How Parallel Lines Intersect: Investor-State Dispute Settlement and Regional Social Policies; 3 Funding Social Policy at the Regional Level: The Development Bank of Latin America (CAF) and Social Policy in Bolivia; Part II: Regional Norms and Policies in the Area of Social Protection
4 Mercosur and the Struggle against Poverty5 Regulating Social Policy in the EU and Mercosur: Patterns and Developments in Social Security and Related Areas; 6 Regional and Domestic Responses to the Unemployment Problem in Europe: Reconfiguring the Architectures of Welfare States; 7 Work and Employment in Mercosur from a Gender Perspective: Challenges and Public Policies; Part III: Regional Norms and Policies in the Area of Education; 8 Policy Diffusion and Higher Education Reforms: Between Market and State Regulation - Where Does Mercosur Stand?
9 Mercosur's Regional Policies in Higher Education: The Diffusion of Accreditation and Quality Assurance Policies10 The EU as a Norm Entrepreneur in Education Policy: An Analysis of the Diffusion of European Ideas and Policies; Part IV: Regional Norms and Policies in the Area of Health; 11 Conditions for Effective Regional Social (Health) Policies: The EU and Unasur Compared; 12 Regional Integration and Health Policies: Regulatory Governance Challenges in Mercosur; 13 Regionalism and Health Policy in South America: Tackling Germs, Brokering Norms and Contesting Power
14 Regional Organizations and Social Policy in Comparative PerspectiveIndex
Includes bibliographical references.
The contributors assess to what extent regional organizations in Europe and Latin America provide a space for the regulation and provision of social policies in the area of social protection, higher education and health. They analyse the impact of regional organizations on social citizenship following political struggle and contestation.
Ethnology—Latin America.
Social policy.
International organization.
European Union.
International relations.
Political science.
Latin American Culture.
Social Policy.
International Organization.
European Union Politics.
International Relations.
Political Science.