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Harvard University.

Political participation after reform: Pensions politics in Latin America.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Political participation after reform: Pensions politics in Latin America.
Author:	O'Neil, Shannon Kathleen.
Description:	331 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Jorge I. Dominguez.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-05, Section: A, page: 1900.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-05A.
Subject:	Political Science, General.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3217843
ISBN:	9780542693601

Political participation after reform: Pensions politics in Latin America.
O'Neil, Shannon Kathleen.

Political participation after reform: Pensions politics in Latin America. - 331 p.

Adviser: Jorge I. Dominguez.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2006.

The empirical chapters trace political participation in pension policymaking over time in Mexico, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. They draw on material from nearly 200 interviews with political, economic, social, and bureaucratic actors, as well as research in media, legislative and social security administration archives in each country. Comparing the predictions of alternative theoretical explanations, such as broader democratization and economic crisis, the study shows that institutional feedback from distinct policy choices at the time of reform best explain both cross-national and over time variation in pension politics. The findings also challenge actor-centered theories, which claim that the power and preferences of reform participants explain post-reform outcomes. While actors may be influential, this study highlights the limitations of this analytic approach, which ignores important aspects of politics, and even reverses the causal link between institutions and actors.

ISBN: 9780542693601Subjects--Topical Terms:

212408
Political Science, General.

Political participation after reform: Pensions politics in Latin America.
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520 # $a This dissertation focuses on the political effects of neoliberal reforms. Through a comparative study of pensions in Latin America, it identifies substantial cross-national and over time variation in political participation, and then demonstrates that policy institutions best explain these differences. The two most important choices are those of full versus partial privatization, and the inclusion or exclusion of representative seats for societal stakeholders in key bureaucracies. These institutional reforms can transform politics across four dimensions: affecting who participates, where decisions are made, what issues are debated, and how effective particular modes of representation are in post-reform policymaking.
520 # $a This project moves beyond the study of the reforms themselves to address their political effects. Building on the few existing studies of post-reform politics, this inquiry finds that specific aspects of policy design---not just broader economic reorganization and "marketization"---matter for political participation. Distinct policy choices can either demobilize societal actors or can encourage broader involvement and representation in policymaking. This finding contributes not just for our practical understanding of policy outcomes, but also for our theoretical discussions regarding the quality of democracy in the wake of widespread reform.
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