1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910416149803321

Autore

Osorio Gonnet Cecilia

Titolo

Conditional Cash Transfer Programs in Ecuador and Chile : The Role of Policy Diffusion / / by Cecilia Osorio Gonnet

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

9783030510084

3030510085

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (269 pages)

Disciplina

339.522

320

Soggetti

Political planning

Social policy

Public Policy

Social Policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Social Policies and Conditional Cash Transfer Programs (CCTs) in Latin America -- Chapter 3. Mechanisms and actors in the diffusion of policies. State of the issue and theoretical proposal -- Chapter 4. Quantitative Analysis of the Diffusion of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs in Latin America -- Chapter 5. The Epistemic Community and International Organizations in the Diffusion of CCTs -- Chapter 6. Chile. The Chile Solidario program -- Chapter 7. Ecuador, the Human Development Bond -- Chapter 8. Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

In this book, Cecilia Osorio Gonnet takes the reader on a journey from the rise of Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) in Mexico and Brazil though their spread across Latin America over the late 20th and early 21st centuries. What makes this text a must read is how Osorio Gonnet analyses this spread; combining an impressive array of qualitative and quantitative data to show how endogenous and exogenous forces interacted to shape the nature of individual CCT programs, within an underlying set of 'essential' elements. Forming the fundamental



uniqueness of this investigation was Osorio Gonnet's notable empirical study of the epistemic community that developed, changed, and acted as the catalyst for the spread and understanding of CCTs amongst the regions policymakers. Osorio Gonnet's core arguments are illustrated a detailed analysis of the diametrically different cases of Chile's Solidario program and what became Ecuador's Bono Desarrollo Humano program. Not only will this text help form the basis of future studies through the question it raises in relation to diffusion, but it will be a must read for anyone interested in Conditional Cash Transfers, Comparative Policy Analysis, Policy Studies, Policy Diffusion and Policy Transfer studies. - David Dolowitz, University of Liverpool, UK This book offers readers a deeper understanding of the diffusion process of the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs in Latin America and the role played by experts and international organizations. CCTs have been increasingly implemented around the world in recent decades, and by 2010, 17 countries in Latin America had adopted them. The evidence suggests that this concentration is due to a process of policy diffusion. International organizations contribute to this process; however, the book's main argument is that there was another, more important actor involved: a regional epistemic community that increased the availability ofinformation about CCTs and reinforced their legitimacy, playing a role in the domestic processes of formulation and adoption. This book addresses the diffusion of the programs throughout the region; diffusion mechanisms that can help us understand the programs' adoption (emulation, learning and coercion); and the impacts of key actors on the process (epistemic community, international organizations and policymakers). Cecilia Osorio Gonnet holds a Ph.D. in tPolitical and Social Sciences from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor at the Politics and Government Department, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile. Her most recent book was "Learning or emulating: how social policies are disseminated in Latin America" (2018).



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910953147103321

Titolo

Using CNS autopsy tissue in psychiatric research : a practical guide / / edited by Brian Dean, Joel E. Kleinman and Thomas M. Hyde

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, Netherlands, : Harwood Academic Publishers, 1999

ISBN

1-04-022210-2

0-429-27124-7

1-4822-8341-7

1-280-07237-7

0-203-30427-6

9786610072378

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (188 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DeanBrian

KleinmanJoel E

HydeThomas M

Disciplina

611.0188

Soggetti

Psychiatry - Research

Neuropsychiatry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Foreword; Contributors; The Collection of Tissue at Autopsy: Practical and Ethical Issues; Psychiatric Diagnosis After Death: The Problems of Accurate Diagnosis from Case History Review and Relative Interviews; Membrane Binding Assays: Membrane Preparation and Assay Development; The Localisation and Quantification of Molecular Changes in the Human Brain Using In Situ Radioligand Binding and Autoradiography; In Situ Hybridisation Histochemistry: Application to Human Brain Tissue; Immunohistochemistry Techniques Applicable for Use with Human Brain Tissue

The Processing and Use of Postmortem Human Brain Tissue for Electron MicroscopyIsolating Components of Human Brain: The Purification of A and the Alzheimer's Amyloid Precursor Protein; Analysis of Receptor Systems in Schizophrenia Using Tissue Obtained at Autopsy and Neuroimaging; Index



Sommario/riassunto

Essential for the laboratory, this practical manual presents a wide variety of techniques associated with the use of human CNS tissue obtained at autopsy. The book contains detailed methodologies in discrete chapters written by an expert in the specific field. It also addresses the potential for extending molecular studies in brain tissue obtained at autopsy into studies in living brain by using neuroimaging techniques. In addition, the reader is directed to suppliers of equipment and reagents that have been shown to be useful when studying human brain tissue.