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Lateinamerika gilt als der ungleichste Kontinent der Welt. Paradoxerweise hat die Entwicklung ressourcenintensiver Sozialsysteme wenig dazu beigetragen, das soziale Ungleichgewicht zu verändern. Der Autor zeichnet dieses Paradox am Beispiel Argentiniens nach, deckt die zugrundeliegenden Macht- und Interessenskonflikte auf und stellt erfolgreiche Strategien zur Umsetzung einer integrativen Politik vor. Als erste Studie dieser Art untersucht sie systematisch die langfristige Entwicklung der sozialen Absicherung von Geringverdienern in Argentinien und analysiert die entscheidenden politischen, sozialen und ökonomischen Einflussfaktoren.
List of contents
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
About the author
Dr. des. Carl Friedrich Bossert works as Political Secretary to the Executive Committee of IG Metall in Frankfurt, Germany.
