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The Political Economy of Segmented Expansion

Latin American Social Policy in the 2000s

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2022

Camila Arza
Affiliation:
CONICET and Centro Interdisciplinario para el Estudio de Políticas Públicas (CIEPP)
Rossana Castiglioni
Affiliation:
Diego Portales University, Chile
Juliana Martínez Franzoni
Affiliation:
Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica
Sara Niedzwiecki
Affiliation:
University of California, Santa Cruz
Jennifer Pribble
Affiliation:
University of Richmond
Diego Sánchez-Ancochea
Affiliation:
University of Oxford

Summary

The early 2000s were a period of social policy expansion in Latin America. New programs were created in healthcare, pensions, and social assistance, and previously excluded groups were incorporated into existing policies. What was the character of this social policy expansion? Why did the region experience this transformation? Drawing on a large body of research, this Element shows that the social policy gains in the early 2000s remained segmented, exhibiting differences in access and benefit levels, gaps in service quality, and unevenness across policy sectors. It argues that this segmented expansion resulted from a combination of short and long-term characteristics of democracy, favorable economic conditions, and policy legacies. The analysis reveals that scholars of Latin American social policy have generated important new concepts and theories that advance our understanding of perennial questions of welfare state development and change.
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