Street-level bureaucracies and inequalities in Latin America

Gianinna Muñoz Arce. Gabriela Lotta. Rik Peeters. [Editors]

Valentina Abufhele Milad. Pilar Arcidiacono. Ximena Baráibar Ribero. Lina Buchely Ibarra. Sergio A. Campos González. Diego Cerna-Aragón. Natália Cordeiro Guimarães. Paula Mara Danel. Mitzi Duboy Luengo. Flávio Eiró. Agustina Favero Avico. Michelle Fernandez. Luis García Ayala. Verónica Gómez Fernández. Francisca Irarrázabal González. Cristian Leyton Navarro. Fernando Nieto Morales. Juan Cruz Olmeda. María Belén Ortega-Senet. Luisina Perelmiter. Elizabeth Pérez-Chiqués. Taly Reininger. Roberto Rocha C. Pires. Pablo Sanabria-Pulido. Cristobal Villalobos. Gianinna Muñoz Arce. Gabriela Lotta. Rik Peeters. [Chapter Authors]

Working Groups Collection.
ISBN 978-631-308-230-8
CLACSO.
Buenos Aires.
out of 2026

This book brings together the work of 27 authors from Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Peru, Colombia, and Chile, who contribute to the discussion on grassroots bureaucracies from diverse perspectives and disciplinary fields—public administration, political science, social work, sociology, and anthropology. Some of these authors are academics at universities and research centers, others are graduate students, and still others combine professional experience as grassroots bureaucrats with academic and research experience in the field. This collective has contributed to the chapters of this book, which aims to enrich the theory of grassroots bureaucracies by incorporating Latin American perspectives and providing interdisciplinary analytical frameworks to better understand bureaucratic dynamics and the reproduction of social inequalities in the region. From the Introduction.