Sebastián Etchemendy
Biographic Data
| ID | 351732 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sebastián Etchemendy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sebastián |
| FAMILY NAME | Etchemendy |
| SIGNATURE | ETCHEMENDY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad Torcuato Di Tella |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4731-2143 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 149 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Mobilization of Public Sector Unions
The increase in the mobilization power of public sector unions is one of the most puzzling features of twenty-first-century labor politics in both advanced and emerging market democracies. We posit that public labor mobilization is driven by economic, institutional, and political factors. Mobilization decreases during the expansionary phase of the economic cycle, when incumbents can placate public unions with state resources; when collective barg…
Models of socio-economic compensation under Covid-19 in Latin America
The unprecedented magnitude of the coronavirus disease 2019 crisis provides an ideal setting for a "Second Image Reversed" approach, that is, how nations refract common external challenges. In most of the advanced world, the policy package of socio-economic compensation has been broadly similar. We argue that the social and labor policies to counter lockdown effects in Latin America displayed way more diversity. The study identifies four national…
The Rise of Public Sector Unions in the Twenty-First Century
Public sector unions are increasingly becoming the hegemonic contemporary labor actor in terms of membership and militancy in both advanced and emerging economies. However, political economy lacks a unified theoretical approach to study mobilization by state unions. The analysis of public sector union politics has been largely separated by regional (United States vs. Europe vs. Global South) and disciplinary (American politics vs. comparative pol…
Uruguay and Contemporary Theories of Wage Coordination
This study seeks to explain the rise and performance of "segmented neocorporatism" in Uruguay in light of contemporary theories of wage coordination, largely framed by the Varieties of Capitalism school and its recent critics. First it argues that the legacy of a centralized labor law framework, and a unified union movement, combined with Frente Amplio's decisive labor empowerment from above to launch neocorporatist wage coordination in the perio…
The Politics of Popular Coalitions
At a general level of neoliberal repudiation or expansion of social policies, most post-neoliberal Latin American governments in the 2000s have exhibited similarities. However, coalitions with popular actors have displayed a lot of variation. In order to compare popular-sector coalitions the article constructs a framework with two central dimensions: electoral and organisational/interest; in post-import substitution industrialisation (ISI) Latin …
The Rise of Segmented Neo-Corporatism in South America
Argentina and Uruguay are the only democracies in Latin America (among few in the world) that have developed sustained, state-oriented national and sectoral wage bargaining between employers and unions after 2005. The article defines “segmented neo-corporatism” as a new form of centralized incomes policy in the region that applies to a substantial portion (i.e., registered workers), though not to all the labor force. Drawing on neo-corporatist th…
Power and Crisis
In the early 1980s Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico had commercial banking sectors that were dominated by local banks. The largest countries in Latin America were subjected to common international economic pressures during both the neoliberal 1980s and 1990s – including the expansion of capital markets in the periphery and integration into the regional trade agreements NAFTA and Mercosur – and the post-1998 financial turmoil. By 2015, however, the t…
Down but Not Out
The shift from state-led import-substitution industrialization to more market-oriented economic models often has the result of shrinking and demobilizing the labor movement. Yet, evidence from Argentina suggests that a subsequent resurgence of even a downsized labor movement may occur and furthermore that a type of "segmented neocorporatism" may be established in the new economic context. We argue that the establishment of this new form of intere…
Repression, Exclusion, and Inclusion
In both Latin America and Europe the role of labor in governing coalitions has been crucial in explaining the organization of labor markets in the first part of the twentieth century.1 However, national coalitional patterns are paradoxically ignored in most comparative attempts to assess labor deregulation in the developing world.2 Labor's coalitional position has an important effect on both the type of labor deregulation that countries undertake…
Revamping the Weak, Protecting the Strong, and Managing Privatization
Conventional wisdom holds that liberal economic policy and a hasty integration into the European Union is the central feature of Spain’s successful adaptation to the globalizationwave. This study argues that a set of illiberal and protectionist policies are crucial to understanding the Spanish transformation. Spain’s reorganization of its economy displayed three broad components: the revamping of industrial sectors from above; the targeted protec…
España
Construir coaliciones reformistas
Constructing Reform Coalitions
It is frequently argued that the key to "successful" economic liberalization is to marginalize interest groups that profit from existing regulatory regimes. This paper contends that some established interests can craft public policies to protect their rents in the new market setting. The state may shape the interests of social actors and create proreform constituencies out of old populist and interventionist groups. In Argentina, this coalition b…
Down but Not Out
The shift from state-led import-substitution industrialization to more market-oriented economic models often has the result of shrinking and demobilizing the labor movement. Yet, evidence from Argentina suggests that a subsequent resurgence of even a downsized labor movement may occur and furthermore that a type of "segmented neocorporatism" may be established in the new economic context. We argue that the establishment of this new form of intere…
Constructing Reform Coalitions
It is frequently argued that the key to "successful" economic liberalization is to marginalize interest groups that profit from existing regulatory regimes. This paper contends that some established interests can craft public policies to protect their rents in the new market setting. The state may shape the interests of social actors and create proreform constituencies out of old populist and interventionist groups. In Argentina, this coalition b…
Repression, Exclusion, and Inclusion
In both Latin America and Europe the role of labor in governing coalitions has been crucial in explaining the organization of labor markets in the first part of the twentieth century.1 However, national coalitional patterns are paradoxically ignored in most comparative attempts to assess labor deregulation in the developing world.2 Labor's coalitional position has an important effect on both the type of labor deregulation that countries undertake…
The Rise of Segmented Neo-Corporatism in South America
Argentina and Uruguay are the only democracies in Latin America (among few in the world) that have developed sustained, state-oriented national and sectoral wage bargaining between employers and unions after 2005. The article defines “segmented neo-corporatism” as a new form of centralized incomes policy in the region that applies to a substantial portion (i.e., registered workers), though not to all the labor force. Drawing on neo-corporatist th…
Construir coaliciones reformistas
Revamping the Weak, Protecting the Strong, and Managing Privatization
Conventional wisdom holds that liberal economic policy and a hasty integration into the European Union is the central feature of Spain’s successful adaptation to the globalizationwave. This study argues that a set of illiberal and protectionist policies are crucial to understanding the Spanish transformation. Spain’s reorganization of its economy displayed three broad components: the revamping of industrial sectors from above; the targeted protec…
Power and Crisis
In the early 1980s Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico had commercial banking sectors that were dominated by local banks. The largest countries in Latin America were subjected to common international economic pressures during both the neoliberal 1980s and 1990s – including the expansion of capital markets in the periphery and integration into the regional trade agreements NAFTA and Mercosur – and the post-1998 financial turmoil. By 2015, however, the t…
The Politics of Popular Coalitions
At a general level of neoliberal repudiation or expansion of social policies, most post-neoliberal Latin American governments in the 2000s have exhibited similarities. However, coalitions with popular actors have displayed a lot of variation. In order to compare popular-sector coalitions the article constructs a framework with two central dimensions: electoral and organisational/interest; in post-import substitution industrialisation (ISI) Latin …
The Rise of Public Sector Unions in the Twenty-First Century
Public sector unions are increasingly becoming the hegemonic contemporary labor actor in terms of membership and militancy in both advanced and emerging economies. However, political economy lacks a unified theoretical approach to study mobilization by state unions. The analysis of public sector union politics has been largely separated by regional (United States vs. Europe vs. Global South) and disciplinary (American politics vs. comparative pol…
Uruguay and Contemporary Theories of Wage Coordination
This study seeks to explain the rise and performance of "segmented neocorporatism" in Uruguay in light of contemporary theories of wage coordination, largely framed by the Varieties of Capitalism school and its recent critics. First it argues that the legacy of a centralized labor law framework, and a unified union movement, combined with Frente Amplio's decisive labor empowerment from above to launch neocorporatist wage coordination in the perio…
Construir coaliciones reformistas
Constructing Reform Coalitions
It is frequently argued that the key to "successful" economic liberalization is to marginalize interest groups that profit from existing regulatory regimes. This paper contends that some established interests can craft public policies to protect their rents in the new market setting. The state may shape the interests of social actors and create proreform constituencies out of old populist and interventionist groups. In Argentina, this coalition b…
Repression, Exclusion, and Inclusion
In both Latin America and Europe the role of labor in governing coalitions has been crucial in explaining the organization of labor markets in the first part of the twentieth century.1 However, national coalitional patterns are paradoxically ignored in most comparative attempts to assess labor deregulation in the developing world.2 Labor's coalitional position has an important effect on both the type of labor deregulation that countries undertake…
Revamping the Weak, Protecting the Strong, and Managing Privatization
Conventional wisdom holds that liberal economic policy and a hasty integration into the European Union is the central feature of Spain’s successful adaptation to the globalizationwave. This study argues that a set of illiberal and protectionist policies are crucial to understanding the Spanish transformation. Spain’s reorganization of its economy displayed three broad components: the revamping of industrial sectors from above; the targeted protec…
España
Down but Not Out
The shift from state-led import-substitution industrialization to more market-oriented economic models often has the result of shrinking and demobilizing the labor movement. Yet, evidence from Argentina suggests that a subsequent resurgence of even a downsized labor movement may occur and furthermore that a type of "segmented neocorporatism" may be established in the new economic context. We argue that the establishment of this new form of intere…
Power and Crisis
In the early 1980s Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico had commercial banking sectors that were dominated by local banks. The largest countries in Latin America were subjected to common international economic pressures during both the neoliberal 1980s and 1990s – including the expansion of capital markets in the periphery and integration into the regional trade agreements NAFTA and Mercosur – and the post-1998 financial turmoil. By 2015, however, the t…
The Rise of Segmented Neo-Corporatism in South America
Argentina and Uruguay are the only democracies in Latin America (among few in the world) that have developed sustained, state-oriented national and sectoral wage bargaining between employers and unions after 2005. The article defines “segmented neo-corporatism” as a new form of centralized incomes policy in the region that applies to a substantial portion (i.e., registered workers), though not to all the labor force. Drawing on neo-corporatist th…
The Politics of Popular Coalitions
At a general level of neoliberal repudiation or expansion of social policies, most post-neoliberal Latin American governments in the 2000s have exhibited similarities. However, coalitions with popular actors have displayed a lot of variation. In order to compare popular-sector coalitions the article constructs a framework with two central dimensions: electoral and organisational/interest; in post-import substitution industrialisation (ISI) Latin …
Uruguay and Contemporary Theories of Wage Coordination
This study seeks to explain the rise and performance of "segmented neocorporatism" in Uruguay in light of contemporary theories of wage coordination, largely framed by the Varieties of Capitalism school and its recent critics. First it argues that the legacy of a centralized labor law framework, and a unified union movement, combined with Frente Amplio's decisive labor empowerment from above to launch neocorporatist wage coordination in the perio…
The Rise of Public Sector Unions in the Twenty-First Century
Public sector unions are increasingly becoming the hegemonic contemporary labor actor in terms of membership and militancy in both advanced and emerging economies. However, political economy lacks a unified theoretical approach to study mobilization by state unions. The analysis of public sector union politics has been largely separated by regional (United States vs. Europe vs. Global South) and disciplinary (American politics vs. comparative pol…
Models of socio-economic compensation under Covid-19 in Latin America
The unprecedented magnitude of the coronavirus disease 2019 crisis provides an ideal setting for a "Second Image Reversed" approach, that is, how nations refract common external challenges. In most of the advanced world, the policy package of socio-economic compensation has been broadly similar. We argue that the social and labor policies to counter lockdown effects in Latin America displayed way more diversity. The study identifies four national…
The Mobilization of Public Sector Unions
The increase in the mobilization power of public sector unions is one of the most puzzling features of twenty-first-century labor politics in both advanced and emerging market democracies. We posit that public labor mobilization is driven by economic, institutional, and political factors. Mobilization decreases during the expansionary phase of the economic cycle, when incumbents can placate public unions with state resources; when collective barg…
Political science (12 works) · Economics (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (7 works) · Political economy (7 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (6 works) · Market economy (5 works) · Economic system (4 works) · Economic Theory and Policy (4 works)