Sônia Miriam Draibe

Former Collaborating Researcher

Sônia Draibe is part of the research team of the project Social Policy in Late Industrializers: A Comparative Study of Latin America. She is a political scientist and has been a professor of politics at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in Brazil since 1975. She was educated at University of São Paulo, FLACSO-Chile and IEDES-University of Paris I, and has held visiting appointments at the EHESS in France, Universities of Paris I and Paris IX, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Notre Dame University, and the City University of New York. She is General Secretary of the Brazilian Political Science Association (2000-2004). She is a researcher and international consultant on Latin American and Brazilian social policy systems, poverty and social programmes evaluation.
Her most recent publications include "Social policies in the nineties", in Renato Baumann (ed.), Brazil in the 1990s - An Economy in Transition (2002, Palgrave/St. Antony´s Series); "The Brazilian welfare state in perspective: Old issues, new possibilities" in John P. Dixon and Robert Scheurell (eds.), The State of Social Welfare: The Twentieth Century in Cross-National Review (2002, Praeger); and, with Milko Matijascic, "The market orientation of social security: The Brazilian case", in John Dixon and Mark Hyde (eds.), The Marketization of Social Security (2001, Quorum Books).