The Welfare State: In Search of a Latin-American Theory

Sonia Fleury
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Sonia Fleury: Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Coordinator of the Interinstitutional Study Group on Futures of Social Protection

Chapter Chapter 1 in Social Policy Dismantling and De-democratization in Brazil, 2023, pp 3-36 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Social protection policies should be viewed as a metapolicy in the sense that they materialize the competition for the distribution of public resources, shape the extension of the community of citizens through inclusion and exclusion criteria, and redefine social stratification and relations between social forces and public and private agents. In this chapter, our study showed that the dismantling of social protection policies in Brazil, beyond reproducing a global trend, needs to be understood in the specificity of the trajectory of democratic institutional construction. We understand that the dismantling takes advantage of the peculiar weaknesses and vulnerabilities of the Welfare State in Brazil and other Latin American countries. Through the development of social protection structures, both the nature of the State and its dynamics of institutionalization are revealed.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-35110-5_1

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