Revising Social Contracts: Social Spending in Latin America, East Asia, and the Former Socialist Countries, 1980-2000

This paper examines the determinants of social spending in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and East Asia during the 1980s and 1990s. We hypothesize that pronounced and enduring differences in welfare legacies and fiscal constraints affected the way countries of the three regions responded to more con...

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Autores principales:	Haggard,Stephan, Kaufman,Robert
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Instituto de Ciencia Política 2004
Materias:	Social Spending Latin America Eastern Europe Asia
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0718-090X20040001000012004-10-15Revising Social Contracts: Social Spending in Latin America, East Asia, and the Former Socialist Countries, 1980-2000Haggard,StephanKaufman,Robert Social Spending Latin America Eastern Europe Asia This paper examines the determinants of social spending in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and East Asia during the 1980s and 1990s. We hypothesize that pronounced and enduring differences in welfare legacies and fiscal constraints affected the way countries of the three regions responded to more contemporary challenges of economic crisis, integration into global markets, and transitions from autocracy to democratic rule. Latin American countries, which inherited the most severe fiscal constraints, were least able to protect social spending during economic downturns. East Asian countries and, to a lesser extent, those of Eastern Europe, were less likely to reduce social spending in the face of downturns and somewhat more likely to increase during democratic transitionsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessPontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Instituto de Ciencia PolíticaRevista de ciencia política (Santiago) v.24 n.1 20042004-01-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-090X2004000100001en10.4067/S0718-090X2004000100001
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spellingShingle	Social Spending Latin America Eastern Europe Asia Haggard,Stephan Kaufman,Robert Revising Social Contracts: Social Spending in Latin America, East Asia, and the Former Socialist Countries, 1980-2000
description	This paper examines the determinants of social spending in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and East Asia during the 1980s and 1990s. We hypothesize that pronounced and enduring differences in welfare legacies and fiscal constraints affected the way countries of the three regions responded to more contemporary challenges of economic crisis, integration into global markets, and transitions from autocracy to democratic rule. Latin American countries, which inherited the most severe fiscal constraints, were least able to protect social spending during economic downturns. East Asian countries and, to a lesser extent, those of Eastern Europe, were less likely to reduce social spending in the face of downturns and somewhat more likely to increase during democratic transitions
author	Haggard,Stephan Kaufman,Robert
author_facet	Haggard,Stephan Kaufman,Robert
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title	Revising Social Contracts: Social Spending in Latin America, East Asia, and the Former Socialist Countries, 1980-2000
title_short	Revising Social Contracts: Social Spending in Latin America, East Asia, and the Former Socialist Countries, 1980-2000
title_full	Revising Social Contracts: Social Spending in Latin America, East Asia, and the Former Socialist Countries, 1980-2000
title_fullStr	Revising Social Contracts: Social Spending in Latin America, East Asia, and the Former Socialist Countries, 1980-2000
title_full_unstemmed	Revising Social Contracts: Social Spending in Latin America, East Asia, and the Former Socialist Countries, 1980-2000
title_sort	revising social contracts: social spending in latin america, east asia, and the former socialist countries, 1980-2000
publisher	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Instituto de Ciencia Política
publishDate	2004
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Revising Social Contracts: Social Spending in Latin America, East Asia, and the Former Socialist Countries, 1980-2000

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