Overview
- Analyzes the changing patterns of social and economic inequalities in Brazil over the last 50 years
- Explores the relations between income inequality and different dimensions of social life, such as education, health, political participation, public policies, demographics and labor market
- Presents valuable insights to understand the significant inequality and poverty reduction experienced by Brazil over the last two decades
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This book presents multidisciplinary analyses of the historical trajectories of social and economic inequalities in Brazil over the last 50 years. As one of the most unequal countries in the world, Brazil has always been an important case study for scholars interested in inequality research, but in the last few decades has brought a new phenomenon to renew researchers’ interest in the country. While the majority of democracies in the developed world have witnessed an increase in income inequality from the 1970s on, Brazil has followed the opposite path, registering a significant reduction of income inequality over the last 30 years.
Bringing together studies carried out by experts from different areas, such as economists, sociologists, demographers and political scientists, this volume presents insights based on rigorous analyses of statistical data in an effort to explain the long term changes in social and economic inequalities in Brazil. The book adopts a multidisciplinary approach, analyzing the relations between income inequality and different dimensions of social life, such as education, health, political participation, public policies, demographics and labor market.
All of this makes Paths of Inequality in Brazil – A Half-Century of Change a very valuable resource for social scientists interested in inequality research in general, and especially for sociologists, political scientists and economists interested in the social and economic changes that Brazil went through over the last two decades.
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Keywords
- Income inequality in Brazil
- Income inequality in Latin America
- Inequality reduction in Brazil
- Poverty reduction in Brazil
- Brazilian social policies
- Brazilian economy
- Political participation in Brazil
- Education and inequality in Brazil
- Health and inequality in Brazil
- Labor market and inequality in Brazil
- Racial inequalities in Brazil
- Housing and urban conditions in Brazil
- Infant mortality in Brazil
- Life expectancy in Brazil
- Demographics changes in Brazil
- Gender and inequality in Brazil
- latin american politics
Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Political Participation
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Public Policies
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Marta Arretche is Director of the Center for Metropolitan Studies, full professor of the Department of Political Science and Vice-provost for research at the University of São Paulo (USP). She holds a PhD in Social Science by the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) and was a visiting fellow at the MIT and at the European University Institute. She is currently the editor-in-chief of the journal Brazilian Political Science Review.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Paths of Inequality in Brazil
Book Subtitle: A Half-Century of Changes
Editors: Marta Arretche
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78184-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-78183-9Published: 17 July 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08635-0Published: 24 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-78184-6Published: 04 July 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 362
Number of Illustrations: 97 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Social Structure, Social Inequality, Latin American and Caribbean Economics, Latin American Politics