Gender Equality in Conditional Cash Transfer Designs : A Disappearing Policy Recipe in Latin America and the World Bank? Few aspects of social policy have been more controversial than the effects of Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) on gender relations and policy outcomes on gender relations are linked to policy designs...
Politiques de gauche, résistance et résilience dans les espaces publics en Amérique latine À la lumière des changements politiques, sociaux et économiques qu’a entraîné le « virage à gauche » en Amérique latine depuis plus de deux décennies¹, l’heure est aujourd’hui aux bilans. Cependant, s...
L’engagement Pousse Là Où on Le Sème : Le Carré Casgrain L'engagement citoyen commence quand nous cultivons ensemble notre jardin. Au printemps 2017, des résident.e.s de l'arrondissement Rosemont-La Petite-Patrie, à Montréal, lorgnent le terrain vague situé...
Repoliticising Indigenous Participation: FPIC Protocols in Canada and Brazil Global activism led to the emergence of new international standards concerning state obligations to consult Indigenous peoples and, under certain circumstances, obtain their free, prior and informed c...
L’Amérique Latine En Transformation : Mobilisation et Citoyenneté Alors que l'Amérique latine traverse une période d'intenses bouleversements politiques et économiques depuis 2015, quels sont les effets de ces transformations sur les dynamiques d'inclusion/exclusion...
Jenson, Jane et Nora Nagels. (2018). Social Policy Instruments in Motion. Conditional Cash Transfers from Mexico to Peru. Social Policy & Administratio Social policy prescriptions for Latin America have shifted significantly over recent decades. This article tracks a process by which a conditional cash transfer (CCT) to mothers, begun in a Mexican pr...
Incomplete Universalization? Peruvian Social Policy Reform, Universalism, and Gendered Outcomes This article analyzes Peruvian social reforms of the early 2000s, in relation to the stated goal of increasing universality as well as to their gendered impacts. It argues that three principal limitat...
Nagels, Nora. 2025. Gender, World Bank and Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin America, International Feminist Journal of Politics. Peu d’aspects de l’analyse des politiques sociales ont été plus controversés que les effets des programmes de transferts monétaires conditionnés (PTC) sur les relations entre les sexes. Or, ces résult... Conditional Cash Gender
“It Was Once a Radical Democratic Proposal”: Theories of Gradual Institutional Change in Brazilian Participatory Budgeting Because of its early positive assessments, participatory budgeting (PB) has been and continues to be praised by several policymakers, and the Brazilian model has become an institutional blueprint arou...
Balan, Manuel et Françoise Montambeault (dir). (2019). Legacies of the Left in Latin America: The Promise of Inclusive Citizenship, Notre Dame University Press. Legacies of the Left Turn in Latin America: The Promise of Inclusive Citizenship contains original essays by a diverse group of leading and emerging scholars from North America, Europe, and Latin Amer...
Montambeault, Françoise, et Dias Félix, Annabelle (2021) « When Informality Matters: Participatory Security Reform and Mechanisms of Social Embeddedness in Nezahualcóyotl, Mexico What are the conditions underlying successful implementation of participatory security mechanisms? Drawing on the case of Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl and from the notion of social embeddedness, we argue tha...
Urban development in the Global South This chapter analyses the dynamics of diverse urbanisation processes in the South in the context of the global economy based on a new international division of labour and new forms of governance. It t...