Power and Politics: Taxation, Social and Labour Market Policies in Argentina and Chile, 1990–2010

Enrique Delamonica (), Jamee K. Moudud () and Esteban Perez Caldentey
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Enrique Delamonica: UNICEF
Jamee K. Moudud: Sarah Lawrence College

Chapter 7 in The Politics of Domestic Resource Mobilization for Social Development, 2020, pp 207-236 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Delamonica, Moudud and Pérez Caldentey analyse recent attempts to construct progressive taxation, social and labour policies in the context of unequal power relations and struggles for social justice in Argentina and Chile. As elsewhere, employers tended to oppose such policies, using various formal and informal mechanisms to push back against them. The authors argue that power relations between state and business are shaped by the political cohesiveness of the latter, that is, the ability of firms to act in concert to politically promote their own policy agendas. At the same time, power struggles also include workers and social movements who exert pressures on the state for egalitarian policies. A key difference between Chile and Argentina is the high level of business cohesiveness in Chile.

Keywords: Social democracy; Power; Business associations; Taxation; Social policy; Labour market policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-37595-9_7

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