Public Policies and Social Inequalities in Transformation

Comparative Insights from Europe and Latin America

Authors

Vincenzo Fortunato (ed)
Pedro López-Roldán (ed)
Sandra Fachelli (ed)

Synopsis

This volume examines the transformations of public policies and welfare institutions in Europe and Latin America from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. Drawing on the theoretical and empirical advances of the INCASI Project, it explores how states, social actors, and policy regimes have reconfigured their responses to inequality in the face of multiple crises - economic, social, environmental, and technological.
The chapters gathered here offer a multidimensional view of public policy, combining macro-structural analyses of welfare and labour regimes with micro-level studies of care, education, and digital work. They reveal the persistent tensions between state intervention, market dynamics, and social demands for equality, as well as the emergence of new institutional complementarities between predistributive and redistributive policies.
Bringing together contributions from researchers across Europe and Latin America, the book provides a critical dialogue on the future of welfare, the redefinition of social rights, and the governance of inequality in an era of digitalisation, migration, and global uncertainty. It invites readers to rethink the role of public policy as a field of democratic innovation and transnational cooperation.

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Author Biographies

Vincenzo Fortunato

He is Full Professor at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Calabria, in the field of Sociology of work and economic processes. PhD in Sociology (Science, Technology and Society). 1996/1997 University of Warwick Coventry (UK) – Master in European industrial relations. At present, Director of the School of Public Administration Sciences, University of Calabria. His research interests include industrial relations, human resources management, work organization, social work and international social policies, non-profit organizations.

Pedro López-Roldán

He is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). Researcher at the Center for Sociological Studies on Everyday Life and Work and the Institute of Labour Studies of the UAB. Main coordinator of INCASI (International Network for Comparative Analysis of Social Inequalities) between Europe and Latin America. Main lines of research: methods and techniques of social research, and sociology of work and social inequality.

Sandra Fachelli

She is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology at Pablo de Olavide University (accredited as a Full Professor). Postdoctoral degree in Social Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires. PhD in Sociology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She is currently vice-president of RC55 “Social Indicators” of the International Sociological Association and member of the Board of RC28 Social Stratification. She is president of CI41 Comparative Sociology between Europe and Latin America of the Spanish Federation of Sociology.

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Published

marzo 13, 2026

Details about this monograph

ISBN-13 (15)

9788835189213

Date of first publication (11)

2026-03-13