Welfare Regimes in Latin America: A Retrospective Comparative Analysis

In this article we begin a retrospective study of the redistributive policies that were put into practice in Latin America between the 1990s and 2010s, namely in the periods between 1990-95 and 2010-15, taking into account the political factors of that context. Actors, institutions and political arrangements that were devised in the literature as modifiers of the development scheme must be analyzed retrospectively, with regard to their contribution to the consolidation of different trajectories of welfare regimes. Problematizing what happened in this period becomes essential to understand the impact of the rupture and the scope of the continuity of the development process in eight different welfare regimes: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay and Venezuela.