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The Politics of Retrenchment: The Quandaries of Social Protection under Military Rule in Chile, 1973–1990

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Rossana Castiglioni
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Abstract

Chile's military government replaced the country's universalistic social policy system with a set of market-oriented social policies. Taking evidence from three areas (pensions, education, and health care), this study seeks to explain why the military advanced a policy of deep retrenchment and why reform of health care was less thorough than it was in pensions and education. The radical transformation of policy relates to the breadth of power concentration enjoyed by General Pinochet and his economic team, the policymakers' ideological positions, and the role of veto players. The more limited reform of health care is linked to the actions of a powerful veto player, the professional association of physicians.

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Latin American Politics and Society , Volume 43 , Issue 4 , Winter 2001 , pp. 37 - 66
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Copyright © University of Miami 2001

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