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Power, Alliances, and Redistribution Carl Friedrich Bossert Power, Alliances, and Redistribution For Verónica and Emilia Carl Friedrich Bossert Power, Alliances, and Redistribution The Politics of Social Protection for Low-Income Earners in Argentina, 1943–2015 Budrich Academic Press Opladen, Berlin & Toronto 2021 © 2021 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. (CC-BY-SA 4.0). It permits use, duplication, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you share under the same license, give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ © 2021 Dieses Werk ist der Budrich Academic Press GmbH erschienen und steht unter der Creative Commons Lizenz Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Diese Lizenz erlaubt die Verbreitung, Speicherung, Vervielfältigung und Bearbeitung bei Verwendung der gleichen CC-BY-SA 4.0-Lizenz und unter Angabe der UrheberInnen, Rechte, Änderungen und verwendeten Lizenz. This book is available as a free download from www.budrich.eu (https://doi.org/10.3224/96665028). A paperback version is available at a charge. The page numbers of the open access edition correspond with the paperback edition. This book is based on a doctoral thesis with the same title handed in at the faculty of social sciences (FB05) at the University of Kassel. The defense took place on November 6th, 2019. The writing of this book was possible thanks to a scholarship of the Hans-Böckler-Foundation. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-3-96665-028-1 eISBN 978-3-96665-998-7 DOI 10.3224/96665028 1. Social policy – Argentina. 2. Social policy – Latin America. 3. Inequality – Latin America. 4. Redistribution – Argentina. 5. Political economy – Argentina. 6. Power resources approach. 7. State theory. Budrich Academic Press GmbH Stauffenbergstr. 7. D-51379 Leverkusen Opladen, Germany 86 Delma Drive. Toronto, ON M8W 4P6 Canada www.budrich.eu A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from Die Deutsche Bibliothek (The German Library) (http://dnb.d-nb.de) Jacket illustration by Bettina Lehfeldt, Kleinmachnow, Germany – www.lehfeldtgraphic.de Picture credits: Cover image: Nicolas Pousthomis Typesetting by Anja Borkam, Jena, Germany – [email protected] Printed in Europe on acid-free paper by Books on Demand GmbH, Norderstedt Contents Tables ..................................................................................................... 7 Figures .................................................................................................... 9 Acronyms ............................................................................................... 10 Preface and Acknowledgements ............................................................ 13 1 Introduction ..................................................................................... 17 2 Theorizing the Politics of Social Protection for Low-Income Earners in Latin America ................................................................ 32 2.1 Review: Welfare State Theory and Social Protection for Low-Income Earners ......................................................... 32 2.2 Theoretical Framework ........................................................... 49 2.2.1 The Power Resources Approach and Latin America: Strengths, Weaknesses and Promising Modifications ................................................................ 49 2.2.2 The Main Argument: Power Resources and Governing Alliances ....................................................................... 54 2.2.3 Understanding Interest Constellations: An Analytical Framework .................................................................... 55 2.2.4 The Role of Different Actors: Hypotheses ................... 69 2.2.5 (Re-)Conceptualizing Power Resources in Social Policy-Making: Associational, Structural, Institutional, and Discursive Power Resources .................................. 71 3 Methodological Approach .............................................................. 85 4 The Politics of Social Protection for Low-Income Earners in Argentina, 1943–2015 ................................................................ 98 4.1 Historical Background and Social Policy before 1943 ........... 98 4.2 Popular Class Incorporation and Social Policy Expansion, 1943–1955 ............................................................................... 106 4.3 Military Intervention, Exclusionary Governing Alliances, and Regressive Social Policy Reform, 1955–1973 ................. 129 4.4 Social Policy Expansion and Political Conflict during the Second Peronism, 1973–1976 ................................................. 146 4.5 The Retrenchment of Social Policy under a Neoliberal Dictatorship, 1976–1983 ......................................................... 157 5 4.6 Return to Democracy, Stagflation, and the Failed Attempt of Inclusionary Social Policy, 1983–1989 .............................. 169 4.7 Neoliberalism and Regressive Social Policy Reform, 1989–2001 ............................................................................... 183 4.8 Crisis, Paradigm Change, and the Expansion of Social Protections for Low-Income Earners, 2002–2015 .................. 216 5 Analyzing the Structural Bases, Actors and Political Mechanisms of Change ........................................................................................ 252 5.1 Social Policy towards Low-Income Earners during Different Periods: Between Truncated and Inclusionary Social Protection ................................................................................ 252 5.2 Constellations of Actors and Interests in the Argentine Politics of Social Protection for Low-Income Earners ........... 256 5.3 The Distribution of Power Resources and Social Protection for Low-Income Earners ......................................................... 272 5.4 Governing Alliances and Social Protection for Low-Income Earners ..................................................................................... 285 6 Conclusions ..................................................................................... 294 6.1 Main Findings: Power, Alliances, and Redistribution ............ 294 6.2 Theoretical Implications ......................................................... 309 6.3 Outlook .................................................................................... 321 References .............................................................................................. 325 Laws and Decrees ........................................................................... 357 Interviews ........................................................................................ 360 Index ...................................................................................................... 363 6 Tables Table 1 Economic and social context, 1894–1943 ......................... 101 Table 2 Economic and social context, 1943–1955 ......................... 107 Table 3 Popular class power at the beginning of the period, 1943–1946 ......................................................................... 110 Table 4 Composition of the new governing alliance, 1946 ............ 119 Table 5 Evolution of trade union membership during the first Peronist government, 1946–1955 ...................................... 120 Table 6 Change in social protection for low-income earners, 1943–1955 ......................................................................... 128 Table 7 Economic and social context, 1955–1973 ......................... 130 Table 8 Popular class power at the beginning of the period, 1955–1958 ......................................................................... 132 Table 9 Composition of the new governing alliance, 1956 ............ 133 Table 10 Change in social protection for low-income earners, 1955–1973 ......................................................................... 145 Table 11 Economic and social context, 1973–1976 ......................... 147 Table 12 Popular class power at the beginning of the period, 1973 ................................................................................... 149 Table 13 Composition of the new governing alliance, March 1973 ................................................................................... 151 Table 14 Change in social protection for low-income earners, 1973–1976 ......................................................................... 157 Table 15 Economic and social context, 1976–1983 ......................... 159 Table 16 Popular class power at the beginning of the period, 1976 ................................................................................... 160 Table 17 Composition of the new governing alliance, 1976 ............ 162 Table 18 Change in social protection for low-income earners, 1976–1983 ......................................................................... 168 Table 19 Economic and social context, 1983–1989 ......................... 170 Table 20 Popular class power at the beginning of the period, 1983 ................................................................................... 172 Table 21 Composition of the new governing alliance, 1983 ............ 175 Table 22 Change in social protection for low-income earners, 1983–1989 ........................................................................
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