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Social Policy Commitment in South America: the Effect of Organized Labor on Social Spending from 1980 to 2010
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Abstract This paper studies the effect of organized labor on social policy commitment in Latin America. Contrary to the idea that unions are not expected to be major promoters of social state development due to being weakened by dictatorship and structural adjustment, I argue for the incorporation of this va... view more
This paper studies the effect of organized labor on social policy commitment in Latin America. Contrary to the idea that unions are not expected to be major promoters of social state development due to being weakened by dictatorship and structural adjustment, I argue for the incorporation of this variable in statistical analysis of social spending. Through pooled time-series regressions of 10 South American countries from 1980 to 2010, this paper finds that union strength has a statistically significant and positive effect on social spending. This analysis also confirms that democracy and the concentration of power in the executive all have a significant effect with regard to predicting changes in the levels of social spending. (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
employee organization; worker participation; welfare; welfare state; social policy; social expenditures; democracy; power; trade union; social welfare state; social security; South America; Latin America; model construction; quantitative method
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Social Security
Document language
English
Publication Year
2015
Page/Pages
p. 3-42
Journal
Journal of Politics in Latin America, 7 (2015) 2
ISSN
1868-4890
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed