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Constructing Reform Coalitions: The Politics of Compensations in Argentina's Economic Liberalization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Sebastián Etchemendy
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Abstract

It is frequently argued that the key to “successful” economic liberalization is to marginalize interest groups that profit from existing regulatory regimes. This paper contends that some established interests can craft public policies to protect their rents in the new market setting. The state may shape the interests of social actors and create proreform constituencies out of old populist and interventionist groups. In Argentina, this coalition building was achieved by constructing reform policies that granted rents in new markets to business and organized labor and by deliberately avoiding unilateral deregulation in sectors where reform would hurt traditionally powerful actors. This argument is developed through a comparative analysis of policy reform in the labor market institutions and protected industrial sectors, areas where the costs of deregulation are said to be unavoidable for the established actors.

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Latin American Politics and Society , Volume 43 , Issue 3 , Fall 2001 , pp. 1 - 35
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Copyright © University of Miami 2001

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