The reform of Welfare Regimes in Costa Rica, Chile, Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay

  • Manuel Sanchez de Dios Universidad Complutense de Madrid
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_POSO.2015.v52.n3.45377
Keywords: Welfare State, Latin America, institutional reform, Latin-American left, neo-liberalism, neo-institutionalism.

Abstract

The aim of this article is to analyze the social policy in Latin America in a context of emerging welfare states. To understand the changes one takes into consideration the theories about institutional reform and the transformations produced in the XX century and the beginning of the XXI to substitute a social security regime mainly based on segmentation of benefi ts and on programs to fi ght poverty by another with an institutional and redistributive nature. The paper pays attention in particular to the path of the most developed welfare states of Latin America: Costa Rica, Chile, Argentina, Brasil y Uruguay.

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Manuel Sanchez de Dios, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Catedratico de Universidad acreditado por el Consejo de Universidades

Profesor Titular de Univesidad en la Facultad de Ciencias POlticas y Sociologia de la UCM

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Published
2015-10-21
How to Cite
Sanchez de Dios M. (2015). The reform of Welfare Regimes in Costa Rica, Chile, Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay. Política y Sociedad, 52(3), 661-690. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_POSO.2015.v52.n3.45377
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Vol. 52 No. 3 (2015): Regímenes de Bienestar en América Latina
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Monographic

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