Power, Alliances, and Redistribution

1.    INTRODUCTION                                        2.    THEORIZING THE POLITICS OF SOCIAL PROTECTION FOR LOW-INCOME EARNERS IN LATIN AMERICA                    2.1.    Review: Welfare State Theory and Social Protection for Low-Income Earners                                2.2.    Theoretical Framework                                2.2.1. The Power Resources Approach and Latin America: Strengths, Weaknesses and Promising Modifications                2.2.2. The Main Argument: Power Resources and Governing Alliances                            2.2.3. Understanding the Role of Different Actors: An Analytical Framework    2.2.4. The Role of Different Actors: Hypotheses                    2.2.5. (Re-)Conceptualizing Popular Class Power in Social Policy-Making: Associational, Structural, Institutional, and Discursive Power Resources    3.    METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH                            4.    THE POLITICS OF SOCIAL PROTECTION FOR LOW-INCOME EARNERS    IN ARGENTINA, 1943-2015 4.1.    Historical Background and Social Policy before 1943                4.2.    Popular Class Incorporation and Social Policy Expansion, 1943-1955        4.3.    Military Interventions, Exclusionary Governing Alliances, and Regressive Social Policy Reform, 1955-1973                    4.4.    Social Policy Expansion and Political Conflict during the Second Peronism, 1973-1976                        4.5.    The Retrenchment of Social Policy under a Neoliberal Dictatorship, 1976-1983                            4.6.    Return to Democracy, Stagflation, and the Failed Attempt of Inclusionary Social Policy, 1983-1989                        4.7.    Neoliberalism and Regressive Social Policy Reform, 1989-2001            4.8.    Crisis, Paradigm Change and the Expansion of Social Protections for Low-Income Earners, 2002-2015 4.9.    Outlook: The Formation of a New Regressive Governing Alliance and the Return of Retrenchment after 2015                        5.    ANALYSING THE STRUCTURAL BASES, ACTORS AND POLITICAL MECHANISMS OF CHANGE                    5.1.    Social Policy towards Low-Income Earners during Different Periods: Between Truncated and Inclusionary Social Protection                5.2.    Constellations of Actors and Interests in the Argentine Politics of Social Protection for Low-Income Earners                    5.3.    The Distribution of Power Resources and Social Protection for Low-Income Earners                    5.4.    Governing Alliances and Social Protection for Low-Income Earners        6.    CONCLUSIONS