2020
DOI: 10.1017/s1474746420000317
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Has Social Policy Expansion in Latin America Reduced Welfare Decommodification and Defamilialisation? Evidence from an Overview of the Mexican Welfare Regime

Abstract: Mexican social policy has been transformed in recent years with the introduction and expansion of social assistance programmes, causing a diversion from the trajectory based on social insurance since the first decades of the twentieth century. This article aims to understand the outcomes of that transformation, by applying welfare regime theory to establish how social policy reforms have affected the distribution of welfare responsibilities among the state, markets and families. The research identifies (de)com… Show more

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“…The original 2020 budget was just 0.06 percent higher than that of 2019 and was only adjusted ad hoc and by +9 percent because of the COVID-19 pandemic (CONEVAL, 2020; 2021). Compared with other countries, Mexico adopted a “minimal action” policy in the face of the pandemic (Velázquez Leyer, 2021). Only in 2021 and 2022 did AMLO exceed (by 0.4 percent and 1.4 percent, respectively) the social spending numbers of 2014.…”
Section: Capital Is Forgiven: Practicementioning
confidence: 99%
“…The original 2020 budget was just 0.06 percent higher than that of 2019 and was only adjusted ad hoc and by +9 percent because of the COVID-19 pandemic (CONEVAL, 2020; 2021). Compared with other countries, Mexico adopted a “minimal action” policy in the face of the pandemic (Velázquez Leyer, 2021). Only in 2021 and 2022 did AMLO exceed (by 0.4 percent and 1.4 percent, respectively) the social spending numbers of 2014.…”
Section: Capital Is Forgiven: Practicementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Many authors suggest that the rise of these non-state actors as welfare providers in low- and middle-income countries is because of the decline or absence of the state to lessen market failures (Bratton, 1989; Stiglitz, 1991; Moreno, 2001; Cammett and MacLean, 2011). Even though some of these countries have undergone a significant expansion of their social policies that in many cases have formed emerging welfare states, the above has not reduced the relevance of the non-state actors as welfare providers (Velazquez, 2020). This has produced various political consequences.…”
Section: Beyond the State And The Marketmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Choi (2012), in his study of three East Asian welfare regimes, used government documents, reports, and statistics to analyse how far these regimes have transitioned from their productivist legacy. Kuypers (2014) used aggregate data on the legislation of social protection, government expenditure, decommodification data (pensions, unemployment, sickness), and government spending on education, work, and income protection of five East and five Southeast Asian and six Latin American countries to demonstrate that the dissimilarities within the East Asian region are minor compared to the differences concerning the traditional and other emerging welfare regimes. Yang and Kühner (2020) used data on government spending, generosity and coverage rates and argued that no specific prediction could be made about the future of productivist regimes in East Asia because of the diversity within and across East Asian welfare regimes.…”
Section: Hybridisation In Welfare Regime Analysismentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This lack of focus will not enable an accurate capture of hybridisation or regime change within a country, as different regimes may follow different trajectories, leading to possible 'tipping points' between regime types. Therefore, there is a need for, and importance of, identifying the welfare mix that involves a complex combination of public welfare provision and informal collective welfare provided by the family and community, on which a large population is dependent in many developing and less developed countries (Papadopoulos & Roumpakis, 2017;Leyer, 2020). As argued by Roumpakis (2020a), examining the relations of dependence and the importance of informal and non-statutory provisions of welfare would assist in better understanding the development of global welfare regimes.…”
Section: Hybridisation In Welfare Regime Analysismentioning
confidence: 99%