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Algorithmic Centralism in a Fragmented Welfare State: Institutional Logics and Legal Paradoxes in the Chilean Case

open access: yesSocial Policy &Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While scholarship on the digital welfare state has effectively critiqued the rise of ‘digital dystopias’ in consolidated welfare systems, it has paid insufficient attention to how digitalization interacts with the structural fragmentation characteristic of many states in the Global South.
Viviana Ponce de León Solís
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Social Policy and Political Regime Change in Central America

open access: yesSocial Policy &Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Does democracy deliver more inclusive and transparent social policy in low‐capacity states? And how does democratic backsliding reshape social policy? Drawing on a comparative analysis of El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua, we examine how regime change and political ideology are associated with patterns of social policy access and ...
Juliana Martínez Franzoni   +1 more
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The Contention of Care: A Latin American Perspective

open access: yesBulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 45, Issue 4, October 2026.
ABSTRACT In the current global political landscape, characterised by increasing polarisation and a rise in far‐right conservative governments, ‘care’ has become a contested field. In particular, the decline in birth rates has catalysed conservative discourse advocating a return to ‘traditional’ values around the world.
Belén Villegas Plá
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Breaking Out of Low‐Effort Traps: Bureaucratic Leadership by Persuasion

open access: yesGovernance, Volume 39, Issue 4, December 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper tests if bureaucratic leadership impacts the quality of service provision of a difficult‐to‐monitor task: learning in public schools. Using the empirical case of rural India, it exploits an administrative setup with two types of bureaucrats for the same spatial unit, the district, that either have more authority or more ability to ...
Martin Haus
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