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The politics of conditioning social benefits in Latin America: evidence from Argentina, Chile and Uruguay [pre-analysis plan]
Fecha
2022-10Autor
Rossel, Cecilia
Antía, Florencia
Straschnoy, Mora
Osorio, Cecilia
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Although all Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) that have been
promoted in Latin America establish some kind of conditionality, there is high
heterogeneity in the way they condition cash benefits. This project explores
the origins of Latin America’s different approaches to designing and
implementing CCT programs, based on three case studies (Argentina, Chile,
and Uruguay) with different conditionality models. We use process-tracing to
test four main explanations of the variation in conditionality models:
partisanship, political competition, diffusion and policy legacies. This method
allows us to generate systematic new evidence concerning the diverse
conditionalities that characterize CCT programs in the region. More
specifically, our approach advances understanding of the causal processes
that lead governments to choose between different types of conditionalities. In
so doing, the project contributes to the literatures on the politics of
conditionality in welfare programs and on the politics of social policy in Latin
America.