Social Policies and Institutional Reform in Post-COVID Cuba

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.

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