The Politics of Healthcare Expansion

Zoila Ponce de León is Assistant Professor in Public Policy at the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. She studies comparative social policy. Her research has been published in the Journal of Latin American Studies (Best Article Prize), Journal of Experimental Political Science, among others. She is co-author of Comparative Politics, 4th edition. (2022).

• 1. Social policy reform in new democracies; 2. Political parties and programmatic commitment in the expansion of healthcare in post-neoliberal Latin America; 3. Two paths to reform: political parties and technocrats in Latin American healthcare policy; 4. When parties care: healthcare reform and programmatic commitment in Chile; 5. Healthcare reform by outsiders in Mexico; 6. Healthcare reform without parties in Peru; 7. Conclusions; Interviews; References; Index.

'In this important new book comparing Peru, Chile, and Mexico, Ponce de Leon demonstrates that good healthcare outcomes are possible if those running the nation's major political parties want it for their people. It is a major contribution to the study of Latin American health care systems, but also more generally to our understanding of policy reform, implementation, and political parties.' Frank R. Baumgartner, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill