Social Policies and Institutional Reform in Post-COVID Cuba (eBook)

Bert Hoffmann (Herausgeber)

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2021
331 Seiten
Verlag Barbara Budrich
978-3-8474-1692-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Die tiefe Wirtschaftskrise in Folge der Corona-Pandemie stellt Kubas Sozialismus vor eine ungeahnte Belastungsprobe. Die Regierung in Havanna hat eine grundlegende Reform von Wirtschaft, Institutionengefüge und Sozialsystem auf die Agenda gesetzt. Der Band vereint Beiträge führender internationaler Experten und von der Insel selbst, die aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven die Herausforderungen analysieren, vor denen Kuba heute steht.

Autor

Prof. Dr. Bert Hoffmann is Lead Researcher at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg, and Professor of Political Science at Freie Universität Berlin.

Inhalt

Social Policies and Institutional Reform in Post-COVID Cuba: A Necessary Agenda (Bert Hoffmann)<br /><br /><br>Part I: Social Policies<br>Governance Challenges in Contemporary Cuba: Social Policies and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (Laurence Whitehead)<br />Social Policy in Cuba: Public Administration Challenges and Achievements (Betsy Anaya Cruz / Anicia García Álvarez)<br />"Who is Going to Take Care of Me?" Care and Ageing in Cuba: a Social Policy Challenge (Blandine Destremau)<br />Habitat Management in Old Havana: Housing Cooperatives as an Urban Resilience Mechanism for Comprehensive Rehabilitation and Sustainable Tourism (Mireia Carrasco Ferri / María Jiménez Campos)<br />Food Access in Cuba: Current Situation and Challenges (Anicia García Álvarez / Betsy Anaya Cruz) <br /><br /><br>Part II: Institutional Transformation of economic life<br>The difficulties of Institutional Change in Cuba (José Antonio Alonso / Pavel Vidal)<br />"Neither Plan nor Market". Problems and Coherence of the Gradualist Reform Approach (Marcel Kunzmann)<br />Multiple Economies and Everyday Resistance in Cuba: A Bottom-up Transition (Louis Thiemann / Claudia Mare)<br />Bailarín, Bailador, Callejero, Inflador: Being/Becoming Professional on Cuba's Dance Scene (An ethnographic Approach) (Ruxandra Ana) <br />Cuban Institutional Reform and the Crossroads of Inequality in the 21st Century (Rosa María Voghon Hernández)<br /><br /><br>Part III: Constitutional reform and beyond<br>Cuba's 2019 Constitution and Socialist Constitutionalism: Realities and Challenges (José Chofre-Sirvent)<br />The Reception of International Treaties in Cuba in the Light of the 2019 Constitution (Carmen Antón Guardiola)<br />Deliberation in the Constitutional Reform Process: Cuba in Comparative Context (Yanina Welp)<br />Stable Change in Cuba after the Constitutional Referendum (Francisco Sánchez)<br /><br /><br>Index<br>

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.9.2021
• Verlagsort: Leverkusen
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Constitution • Crisis • Cuba • economy • Governance • Institutionen • Institutions • Krise • Kuba • Reform • Reformen • Socialism • Social Policy • Sozialismus • Sozialpolitik • Verfassung • Wirtschaft
• ISBN-10: 3-8474-1692-8 / 3847416928
• ISBN-13: 978-3-8474-1692-0 / 9783847416920