Ricardo Velázquez Leyer- PhD Social Policy
- Professor (Full) at Ibero American University
Ricardo Velázquez Leyer
- PhD Social Policy
- Professor (Full) at Ibero American University
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January 2017 - present
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El clientelismo político representa una característica fundamental de muchos regímenes políticos alrededor del mundo. Lejos de constituir una anomalía temporal que puede ser fácilmente corregida, en muchos países este fenómeno es un elemento intrínseco al desarrollo de la política y las políticas públicas, que estructura y moldea los resultados de...
This book underscores the pivotal interplay between Anthropology and Public Policy studies, highlighting their crucial roles in comprehending the cultural dimensions of public problems and devising effective solutions. Public policy, characterized by its multidisciplinary, problem-centered approach, seeks to enhance societal well-being by scrutiniz...
https://policyandpoliticsblog.com/2023/09/20/when-policy-feedback-produces-apathy-towards-policy-development-understanding-the-end-of-conditional-cash-transfers-in-mexico/
Countries adopted a variety of social policy responses to reduce the social risks exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which in some cases took the form of institutional reforms. The study of the institutionalisation of emergency responses is relevant to understanding if and how a critical juncture, like the one opened by the pandemic, can generat...
The conditional cash transfer programme (CCT) for poor families was terminated in Mexico in 2019. CCTs seek to fight poverty under a social investment logic by promoting the formation of human capital through the compliance of behavioural conditionalities. The programme – the first of its kind introduced at national level – accomplished several ach...
El universalismo es considerado una aspiración de la política social de gobiernos de izquierda al considerar su potencial de generar condiciones de menor pobreza y mayor igualdad y solidaridad en comparación con otros modelos de programas sociales. En 2018 arriba al poder en México un gobierno federal de izquierda, que coloca a la política social e...
This volume examines the public/private sector mix in a number of national healthcare systems and their interface with the goals of health equity and quality of healthcare. Moreover, there is a consideration of public accountability. The unique significance of this collection of national studies involving the public/private sector mix of healthcare...
This volume examines the public/private sector mix in a number of national healthcare systems and their interface with the goals of health equity and quality of healthcare. Moreover, there is a consideration of public accountability. The unique significance of this collection of national studies involving the public/private sector mix of healthcare...
The article analyses progress towards universal healthcare in Latin America by comparing the cases of Chile, where coverage was expanded and new benefits were added under a dual public-private model, and Mexico, where a voluntary public insurance programme was layered along existing social insurance schemes. The analysis adopts the framework of pol...
One of the few universal programs in Latin America is the Food Pension for Adults Older than 68 (PAAM) of Mexico City, which aims to reduce food insecurity while generating food well-being among that age group. Previous evaluations and studies have concluded that the program has a low effect on food security because of a lack of targeting on the po...
Pension programmes have occupied a central space in the long history of social policy in Latin America. Social policy took the shape of Bismarckian social insurance systems, which had at their core different types of pensions, like old age, survivors’, disability and work-risks pensions. The evolution of social insurance followed an incremental pat...
CRC 1342 Covid-19 Social Policy Response Series / No. 5 – Mexico
https://www.socialpolicydynamics.de/publications/en?publ=10192
This report offers an analysis of the Mexican federal government’s social policy response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The report provides an overview of developments in six policy areas where change associated with the pande...
In 2018, for the first time in Mexico’s history, a left-wing government was elected in fair and democratic elections, precisely at a time when there appeared to be a turn to the right in Latin America and across the globe. Mexico is one of the most-unequal countries on the planet (Esquivel, 2015), with unacceptable poverty rates and a poor level of...
Mexican social policy has been transformed in recent years with the introduction and expansion of social assistance programmes, causing a diversion from the trajectory based on social insurance since the first decades of the twentieth century. This article aims to understand the outcomes of that transformation, by applying welfare regime theory to...
Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) have become the main instrument to combat poverty in Latin America, they have been exported around the globe and are one of the most popular social policies of the twenty-first century. CCTs deliver cash transfers to poor families with conditionalities like attendance to school and health appointments. This article...
La comprensión del presente estado de crisis social, política y económica global requiere de teorías políticas que permitan identificar sus causas y las opciones de solución para los problemas que genera. Los enfoques teóricos predominantes parecen carecer del
potencial para generar dichas explicaciones. Teorías conductistas, de elección racional,...
Welfare policy in Mexico has been transformed in recent decades. During the years of the import‐substitution industrialization economic strategy and the hegemonic party political regime, social policy was based on social insurance programs of limited coverage to urban formal sector workers and their families. In the mid‐1990s, an unprecedented expa...
at http://www.social-policy.org.uk/50-for-50/contradictions-mexico/
El artículo demuestra que la expansión de la política social durante el presente siglo en México sólo ha estado subsidiando la contracción de la política de salario mínimo, lo que explica el pobre desempeño del país en la lucha contra la pobreza.
Palabras clave: Política social, transferencias condicionadas de ingreso, salarios, pobreza extrema....
Universalism has been at the centre of international and national debates throughout the twenty-first century. Such debates are especially meaningful and challenging in the developing world, where social policies never reached some groups of the population. Nevertheless, the expression universalism can be ambiguous and governments can address it th...
Conditional Cash Transfer programmes (CCTs) have been at the core of the remarkable expansion of social protection in Latin America in the early twenty-first century. Our article reviews the origins of CCTs in the Social Investment (SI) approach to social policy design, explores their characteristics and traces their expansion in Latin America. It...
Latin America has emerged as a social policy ‘laboratory’ in recent decades and most prominent among the social policy innovations developed in the region are the so-called Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programmes (Cecchini
et al
., 2015; Borges Sugiyama, 2011; Martínez Franzoni
et al
., 2009). They have been widely promoted by international orga...
This article studies how and under what circumstances different socio-political formations are more likely to trigger and shape distinct modes of institutional reform and transform the structures of the state in greater or lesser degree. The focus is on health care reforms in the context of political liberalization: the Sistema Único de Saúde in Br...
Housing represents a basic human need. Families can access housing through public policy, market mechanisms or by their own resources. This article adopts a welfare regime approach to analyse the housing sector in Mexico. The objective is to map the Mexican housing regime and to reveal its major outcomes. The study reveals the roles that public pol...
Welfare systems in Latin American countries have been significantly expanded during the twenty-first century. After decades of a social policy based on social insurance programmes which tended to cover formal sector workers and their families, new social programmes have been introduced and coverage of existing ones has been extended to reach popula...
