The Power Struggles over the Post-neoliberal Social Security System Reforms in Venezuela and Ecuador
Authors: Bistoletti, Ezequiel Luis
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- Provides an outlook of the strengths and weaknesses of the Latin American left-wing governments including their struggles and contradictions
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- About this book
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This book carries out a comparative analysis of the power struggles over the post-neoliberal social security reforms in Venezuela and Ecuador. The research breaks down why the social security system reform initiated by Hugo Chávez’ government in Venezuela has come down since its passing in 2002, whereas the social security system reform initiated by Rafael Correa’s government in Ecuador has come along in spite of the obstacles since 2007. All in all, the analysis determined that the struggles over the social security system reforms in both countries remarkably corresponded to each other with regard to their structural conditions, points of contention, and contending actors. In contrast, the analysis established substantial divergences regarding the ways in which the struggles over both reforms came about, due to the divergent development of the struggles for hegemony between government and opposition. These divergences finally brought about the indefinite stagnation of the reform in Venezuela and the advancement of subsequent partial reforms aimed at the universalization of social security in Ecuador.
- About the authors
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Ezequiel Luis Bistoletti is researcher at the Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin.
- Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-7
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Theoretical and Methodological Approaches
Pages 9-54
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Analysis of the Power Struggles over the Post-neoliberal Social Security System Reform in Venezuela
Pages 55-158
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Analysis of the Power Struggles over the Post-neoliberal Social Security System Reform in Ecuador
Pages 159-248
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Comparative Analysis of the Power Struggles over the Post-neoliberal Social Security System Reforms in Venezuela and Ecuador
Pages 249-267
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The Power Struggles over the Post-neoliberal Social Security System Reforms in Venezuela and Ecuador
- Authors
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- Ezequiel Luis Bistoletti
- Series Title
- The Latin American Studies Book Series
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-98168-0
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-98168-0
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-98167-3
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-07461-6
- Series ISSN
- 2366-3421
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIX, 277
- Number of Illustrations
- 3 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
- Topics