Studying the state through the lens of Bolsa Família: policy preservation under adverse circumstances in Brazil

Thesis

In the 1990s and early 2000s, countries across Latin America embarked on a new era of social policy. Turning away from a model of “truncated” welfare states where social protection was tied to formal employment, governments began to expand the reach of social safety nets to new groups. Conditional cash transfers programs (CCTs) targeted to low-income households were a hallmark of this new approach and have since proliferated rapidly across the region and the world. In many countries, CCTs rep...

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Authors: Bolch, K

• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: social policy; politics of public policy; Bolsa Família; welfare state; state-society relations; cash transfers; Brazil
• Subjects: Brazil--Politics and government--2003-; COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020---Influence; Brazil--Social policy; Brazil--Politics and government--2015--; Political sociology