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Explaining Uneven Social Policy Expansion in Democratic Chile

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2018

Rossana Castiglioni
Rossana Castiglioni*
Affiliation:
Associate professor in the Escuela de Ciencia Política, Universidad Diego Portales.
*
rossana.castiglioni@mail.udp.cl
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Abstract

This article analyzes the uneven expansion of social policy, using evidence from Chile. It explicates the Chilean case to understand differences between two specific areas of social policy: pensions and healthcare. Most macroexplanatory factors, which the literature proves are crucial for cross-country analysis, are left constant. Instead, it focuses on accounting for differences in the scope of expansion across sectors. It carries out a hypothesis-generating type of case study and relies on inductive process tracing. The goal is to generate hypotheses that may be useful for theory building in the realm of intersectoral dynamics of social policy expansion. The findings suggest that three explanatory factors combine to account for such differences: policymakers’ perceptions of the budgetary constraints and fiscal costs of producing (or failing to produce) a reform; the composition, cohesion, and ideas of technical teams; and the relative power of nongovernmental, prowelfare actors in relation to market stakeholders.

Keywords

social policy expansionintersectoral dynamicspensionshealthcareChile
Type
Research Article
Information
Latin American Politics and Society , Volume 60 , Issue 3 , August 2018 , pp. 54 - 76
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© 2018 University of Miami 

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