Social Policy in a Nondemocratic Regime: The Case of Public Housing in Brazil

ISBN-13: 9780367303044 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 163 str.

Gil Shidlo

Opis

This book is about non-democratic regimes and social policy. It analyzes the logic behind social policy expenditure in non-democratic regimes by looking at the Brazilian case during the period of 1964 to 1985. The book looks at the new civilian government of Brazil, installed in March 1985.

Spis treści

List of Tables and Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Theoretical Approaches to Social Policy in Non-Democratic Regimes -- 2. Financing Social Policy: The Brazilian National Housing Bank and Its Predecessors -- 3. The Administration of Social Resources at State and Local Levels -- 4. The Consumption of Social Resources by the Middle Sectors -- 5. Non-Democratic Regimes and Social Policy: End of an Era? -- Bibliography – Index.