Unemployment and Clientelism: The Piqueteros of Argentina

Aldo Ponce

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Abstract: This paper sheds light on possible explanations for the success and sustainability of the piqueteros social movement in Argentina, developed from a comparative perspective based on Latin America. I show which institutional arrangements, political actors, and configurations of power contributed to the success of the piqueteros. Applying the basic principles of the rational choice approach, I find that the success of the piqueteros movement was produced by the current political division in the ruling party (the Peronist party), by the over-regulated Argentine labor market, and by the impact of the Argentine economic crisis through the unemployment rates.

Keywords: unemployment; social movements; federalism; institutions; unions; Argentina (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H1 H3 H4 H41 H7 H72 H77 J01 J5 J50 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006-09-01
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