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Power, Alliances, and Redistribution

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This book systematically examines the long-term development of social security for low-income earners in Argentina and analyzes the key political, social, and economic factors influencing it.
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Latin America is considered the most unequal continent in the world. Paradoxically, the development of resource-intensive social systems has done little to change the social imbalance. The author traces this paradox using Argentina as an example, uncovering the underlying conflicts of power and interests, and identifying successful strategies for implementing inclusive policies. As the first study of its kind, it systematically examines the long-term development of social security for low-income earners in Argentina and analyzes the decisive political, social, and economic factors influencing it.
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Price: $100.00
Pages: 373
Publisher: Verlag Barbara Budrich
Imprint: Barbara Budrich Academic Press
Publication Date: 19 April 2021
Trim Size: 8.27 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783966650281
Format: Paperback
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy
Dr. des. Carl Friedrich Bossert works as Political Secretary to the Executive Committee of IG Metall in Frankfurt, Germany.

1. INTRODUCTION

2. THEORIZING THE POLITICS OF SOCIAL PROTECTION FOR LOW-INCOME EARNERS IN LATIN AMERICA
2.1. Review: Welfare State Theory and Social Protection for Low-Income Earners
2.2. Theoretical Framework
2.2.1. The Power Resources Approach and Latin America: Strengths, Weaknesses and Promising Modifications
2.2.2. The Main Argument: Power Resources and Governing Alliances
2.2.3. Understanding the Role of Different Actors: An Analytical Framework
2.2.4. The Role of Different Actors: Hypotheses
2.2.5. (Re-)Conceptualizing Popular Class Power in Social Policy-Making: Associational, Structural, Institutional, and Discursive Power Resources

3. METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH

4. THE POLITICS OF SOCIAL PROTECTION FOR LOW-INCOME EARNERS IN ARGENTINA, 1943-2015
4.1. Historical Background and Social Policy before 1943
4.2. Popular Class Incorporation and Social Policy Expansion, 1943-1955
4.3. Military Interventions, Exclusionary Governing Alliances, and Regressive Social Policy Reform, 1955-1973
4.4. Social Policy Expansion and Political Conflict during the Second Peronism, 1973-1976
4.5. The Retrenchment of Social Policy under a Neoliberal Dictatorship, 1976-1983
4.6. Return to Democracy, Stagflation, and the Failed Attempt of Inclusionary Social Policy, 1983-1989
4.7. Neoliberalism and Regressive Social Policy Reform, 1989-2001
4.8. Crisis, Paradigm Change and the Expansion of Social Protections for Low-Income Earners, 2002-2015
4.9. Outlook: The Formation of a New Regressive Governing Alliance and the Return of Retrenchment after 2015

5. ANALYSING THE STRUCTURAL BASES, ACTORS AND POLITICAL MECHANISMS OF CHANGE
5.1. Social Policy towards Low-Income Earners during Different Periods: Between Truncated and Inclusionary Social Protection
5.2. Constellations of Actors and Interests in the Argentine Politics of Social Protection for Low-Income Earners
5.3. The Distribution of Power Resources and Social Protection for Low-Income Earners
5.4. Governing Alliances and Social Protection for Low-Income Earners

6. CONCLUSIONS