Power, Alliances, and Redistribution (eBook)

Dr. des. Carl Friedrich Bossert, Politischer Sekretär beim Vorstand der IG Metall, Frankfurt am Main

1.    INTRODUCTION                                        <br />2.    THEORIZING THE POLITICS OF SOCIAL PROTECTION FOR LOW-INCOME EARNERS IN LATIN AMERICA                    <br />2.1.    Review: Welfare State Theory and Social Protection for Low-Income Earners                                <br />2.2.    Theoretical Framework                                <br />2.2.1. The Power Resources Approach and Latin America: Strengths, Weaknesses and Promising Modifications                <br />2.2.2. The Main Argument: Power Resources and Governing Alliances                            <br />2.2.3. Understanding the Role of Different Actors: An Analytical Framework    <br />2.2.4. The Role of Different Actors: Hypotheses                    <br />2.2.5. (Re-)Conceptualizing Popular Class Power in Social Policy-Making: Associational, Structural, Institutional, and Discursive Power Resources    <br />3.    METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH                            <br />4.    THE POLITICS OF SOCIAL PROTECTION FOR LOW-INCOME EARNERS    <br />IN ARGENTINA, 1943-2015<br />4.1.    Historical Background and Social Policy before 1943                <br />4.2.    Popular Class Incorporation and Social Policy Expansion, 1943-1955        <br />4.3.    Military Interventions, Exclusionary Governing Alliances, <br />and Regressive Social Policy Reform, 1955-1973                    <br />4.4.    Social Policy Expansion and Political Conflict <br />during the Second Peronism, 1973-1976                        <br />4.5.    The Retrenchment of Social Policy under a<br />Neoliberal Dictatorship, 1976-1983                            <br />4.6.    Return to Democracy, Stagflation, and the Failed Attempt of Inclusionary Social Policy, 1983-1989                        <br />4.7.    Neoliberalism and Regressive Social Policy Reform, 1989-2001            <br />4.8.    Crisis, Paradigm Change and the Expansion of Social Protections for Low-Income Earners, 2002-2015<br />4.9.    Outlook: The Formation of a New Regressive Governing Alliance and the Return of Retrenchment after 2015                        <br />5.    ANALYSING THE STRUCTURAL BASES, ACTORS AND POLITICAL MECHANISMS OF CHANGE                    <br />5.1.    Social Policy towards Low-Income Earners during Different Periods: Between Truncated and Inclusionary Social Protection                <br />5.2.    Constellations of Actors and Interests in the Argentine Politics of Social Protection for Low-Income Earners                    <br />5.3.    The Distribution of Power Resources and Social Protection for Low-Income Earners                    <br />5.4.    Governing Alliances and Social Protection for Low-Income Earners        <br />6.    CONCLUSIONS                                        <br />