Notes about the construction and deconstruction of Welfare in Latin America
The purpose of this article is to problematize welfare as a complex category that, despite its economic nature, is always reified in social and political terms. This conceptual displacement justifies the need to analyze the theoretical and methodological derivations that are expressed in the evaluat...
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Instituto de Política, Sociedad e Intervención Social (IPSIS) de la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales (FCS) de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC)
2017
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/ConCienciaSocial/article/view/18433 |
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| Sumario: | The purpose of this article is to problematize welfare as a complex category that, despite its economic nature, is always reified in social and political terms. This conceptual displacement justifies the need to analyze the theoretical and methodological derivations that are expressed in the evaluation of welfare in the field of social policies, a space where the dispute is settled for the way in which welfare is produced and administered in society. The paper reviews the 1990s and the behavior of indicators traditionally taken to evaluate the living conditions of the population and consequently to consider them as welfare proxies in Latin America. In this regard, it can be observed that the bases established in the 1990s were durable, and redistributive policies operated on the previous matrix that we characterized as neoasistential. It imposes limitations and may act in an incremental sense - as demonstrated between 2003-2015 - or residual in the face of the restriction of benefits. Hence, the very instrument of social policy can have very different results depending on the context and the way in which that instrument is combined into a wider system of what we call a welfare system. |
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