TY - JOUR
T1 - Postretrenchment politics
T2 - Policy feedback in Chile's health and pension reforms
AU - Ewig, Christina
AU - Kay, Stephen J.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Through a comparison of three periods of health and pension reform in Chile, this article develops an explanation for the incremental form of social policy change that some Latin American nations have witnessed in recent years, despite the dramatic rise of left governments. It describes "postretrenchment politics," which constitutes a realignment in the way politics plays out in countries that have undergone social policy retrenchment. In postretrenchment politics, the strengthened position of private business interests, combined with political learning legacies and lock-in effects generated by reforms, results in incremental political change, despite renewed efforts by left parties to address inequality. Global capital also plays an important contextual role, and may influence postretrenchment politics. In postretrenchment politics, newly reformed systems may achieve greater equity, but they do so in fragmented form.
AB - Through a comparison of three periods of health and pension reform in Chile, this article develops an explanation for the incremental form of social policy change that some Latin American nations have witnessed in recent years, despite the dramatic rise of left governments. It describes "postretrenchment politics," which constitutes a realignment in the way politics plays out in countries that have undergone social policy retrenchment. In postretrenchment politics, the strengthened position of private business interests, combined with political learning legacies and lock-in effects generated by reforms, results in incremental political change, despite renewed efforts by left parties to address inequality. Global capital also plays an important contextual role, and may influence postretrenchment politics. In postretrenchment politics, newly reformed systems may achieve greater equity, but they do so in fragmented form.
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1548-2456.2011.00134.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1548-2456.2011.00134.x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84055199654
SN - 1531-426X
VL - 53
SP - 67
EP - 99
JO - Latin American Politics and Society
JF - Latin American Politics and Society
IS - 4
ER -