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Welfare Regimes in Latin America

Capturing Constellations of Markets, Families, and Policies

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ID2969043
AuthorsJuliana Martínez Franzoni (0000-0002-9931-6915, University of Pittsburgh, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume50
Issue02
Pages67-100
Publication date2008-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLatin American Politics and Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1531-426X • E-ISSN: 1548-2456
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/j.1548-2456.2008.00013.x
OpenAlexW1963712636
LanguageEN
Citations received113
References cited11

This article presents both a theoretical framework and a methodology that attempt to capture the complex interactions among labor markets, families, and public policy that currently constitute Latin American welfare regimes. Drawing on cluster analysis based on available data for 18 countries, the study identifies three welfare regimes. Two are state welfare regimes: protectionist (e.g. Costa Rica) and productivist (e.g. Chile); one is nonstate familiarist (e.g. Ecuador and Nicaragua). In a region where people's well-being is deeply embedded in family relationships, closer scholarly attention to how social structures interact with public policy bears not only academic interest but also policy implications, particularly for adapting particular welfare regimes to the local welfare mix

Cluster (spacecraft) · Economic growth · Economics · International economics · Latin Americans · Market economy · Political science · Protectionism · Public economics · Public policy · Social policy · Social Welfare · Welfare · Welfare state · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Taxation and Compliance Studies

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