Rossana Castiglioni Libros

The book explores the segmented nature of social policy advancements in Latin America during the early 21st century, highlighting disparities in access, benefits, and service quality. It emphasizes the differences across various policy sectors, revealing the challenges and inequalities that persist in the region's social development.

This Element shows that Latin America's social policy gains in the early 2000s remained segmented, exhibiting differences in access and benefit levels, gaps in service quality, and unevenness across policy sectors. It argues that this segmented expansion resulted due to the characteristics of democracy, economic conditions, and policy legacies.