Protest and Social Policies for Outsiders

The Expansion of Social Pensions in Latin America

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2116284
AutoresRossella Ciccia (0000-0001-6745-737X, Oxford Policy Management), César Guzmán‐concha (0000-0002-2505-9936, University of Geneva)
Año2023
Volumen52
Número2
Páginas294-315
Fecha de publicación2023-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Social Policy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0047-2794 • E-ISSN: 1469-7823
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0047279421000623
OpenAlexW3198482479
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas39

The expansion of social pensions in Latin America was part of a larger process aimed at extending protections to informal workers and other individuals not covered by social insurance. These reforms were enacted by governments of different colours, and varied considerably with regard to the scope of the new programmes. While previous comparative studies have privileged economic factors and electoral dynamics to explain these differences, this article extends these frameworks to incorporate the interplay between contentious and institutional politics. It uses a two-step qualitative comparative analysis to investigate the long-term effect of protests on reforms extending the coverage of social pensions under different constellations of political, economic and institutional conditions in 18 Latin American countries (2000-2011). The results show that protest was present in almost all configurations of expansion, but that its effect was contingent on the ideology of governments, the levels of political competition and the strength of unions

Competition (biology) · Economics · Ideology · Latin Americans · Market economy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Scope (computer science) · Social insurance · Corruption and Economic Development · Qualitative Comparative Analysis Research · Social Policy and Reform Studies