Antipoverty Programmes in Venezuela
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2115291 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anne Daguerre (0000-0003-2089-5238, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 835-852 |
| Publication date | 2011-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Social Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-2794 • E-ISSN: 1469-7823 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0047279411000018 |
| OpenAlex | W2023664034 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 17 |
This article analyses Venezuelan antipoverty programmes under the presidency of Hugo Chávez, the leader of the 'Bolivarian Revolution' (1998-present). Support for poor people has become the government's trademark since the creation in 2002-03 of a series of emergency social programmes, the Missions. These programmes attend to the basic needs of low-income individuals in terms of nutrition, health and education. The Missions are characterised by a pattern of institutional bypassing which makes their long-term institutionalisation difficult. Do the Missions really introduce a break with previous social policies? To answer this question, we first analyse the evolution of the Venezuelan social state. Second, we review the development of the Missions, especially the MissionVuelvan Caras, nowChe Guevara, an active labour market programme. Third, we provide an assessment of the Social Missions and identify ruptures and continuities with past social assistance policies. The main contention is that the Missions exhibit a strong pattern of path dependency, despite the ideological and discursive ruptures that have attended the presidency of Hugo Chávez
Economic growth · Economics · Government (linguistics) · Ideology · Institutionalisation · Political science · Politics · Presidency · Social change · Social mobilization · Sociology · State (computer science) · International Development and Aid · Latin American socio-political dynamics · Law · Politics and Society in Latin America · Public Administration
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| Citations per year | 0.23 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2021 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |